Romo needs to create a market

[ShiningStar]

at this point, who cares, nothing he does will help us. The d just got blown up. So, nothing he can do to save the season, He should be running from Dallas as we type.

 

[DFWJC]

Romo is just chillin out.

 

[DFWJC]

Romo has already said he would redo his contact.......not sure why this is still an issue

Yes, he said this two weeks ago.

But just to be clear, he would redo it for the right teams only.
He's put his time in and taken the beating of 10 men, so retirement is a preferred option ahead of starting on a crap team....imo.

The whole league (and basically the local writers) assume he wiil evetually get realeased.
But maybe they can squeeze out a late rounder if Houston is up for it.
Problem is, they already gave up a lot of draft capital and dont want to give up more....and then still have to re-work the contract.

 

[ChooChoo73]

Can you enlighten us with the evidence of Romo-Elway collusion?

no evidence, just hints. I believe Elway's confidence in rolling the dice on not making a trade comes from inside knowledge. He has the ability to get behind the curtain in Dallas with Ware and now Leary as his connections. Romo and Elway have been Connected through golf for a long time especially yearly in Tahoe and they were also photographed together in January at a political party here in D.C.. None of this means what I proposed but to me it explains Elways comfort with not blinking in the face of Houston being involved.

 

[DFWJC]

no evidence, just hints. I believe Elway's confidence in rolling the dice on not making a trade comes from inside knowledge. He has the ability to get behind the curtain in Dallas with Ware and now Leary as his connections. Romo and Elway have been Connected through golf for a long time especially yearly in Tahoe and they were also photographed together in January at a political party here in D.C.. None of this means what I proposed but to me it explains Elways comfort with not blinking in the face of Houston being involved.

Honestly, Im not so sure Denver is very interested in Romo.

They were cruising along fine before Seimian got injured. They also need to see how much Lynch (who they coughed up a 1st and 3rd for) is worth.

 

[haleyrules]

Should have traded him a long time ago instead of giving him a massive contract.

Thats the answer. Romo has no trade value. He is old, injury proned with a bloated contract and a losing history...nobody is trading anything for this dud.

 

[ChooChoo73]

Honestly, Im not so sure Denver is very i terested in Romo.

They were crusing along fine before Seimian got injured. They also need to see how much Lynch (who they coughed a 1st and 3rd for) is worth.

Makes sense. I truly believe Romo gets cut, Denver pounces and Storyline becomes Elway outsmarting JJ. I don't really care though. I wouldn't bother me if he played in the division. If we don't want him then who cares where he goes.

 

[JoeKing]

Romo doesn't have to do anything. He has a contract to get paid bank whether he plays or not. Jerry is the one that needs to do something and it seems he's done it. Romo is staying to either play or backup Dak. That's the way it will be until an offer is made by a team Romo agrees to go to. Then he will allow his contact to be restructured, enabling him to be traded.

 

[Beast_from_East]

He has to decide if he wants to start somewhere else, if he wants max money or if staying in Dallas with family and friends is enough.........the best way to handle the situation is to renegotiate his contract immediately

He should sign a deal that guarantees him 10m over the next 2 years in base salary with 500k per games started incentives....he can add a third year option but no more guarantees

If he stays as a bak-up to Dak he gets 5m and a chance to go to the SB as a hero if Dak gets hurt......it lowers his cap hit to 15.7m saving DAL 9m on the cap this year and 15m next year


If he gets traded he gets 5m + up to 8m in starts for 13m total and a chance to join a playoff caliber team ....even if he gets hurt and misses time he has 5m coming to him in 2018........ but it keeps his cap number down for the new team that trades for him to 5m in 2017 adding more teams to the dance

Right now he is owed 3yr/54m but none of it is guaranteed, including his 14m base salary this year..... more teams would be more willing to jump if he had an incentive laden contract......his contract and his health questions are stumbling blocks but he is too good to just give away.....if teams know Dallas will keep him they will have to up their interest

DAL should also ask for conditional trades.....they could take a 1st or 2nd this year but offer back a 4th next year if he misses 8 games or more......if the trade comes after the draft just make it a conditional 1st or 3rd for 2018 depending on games played

Or Romo and his agent are thinking that not redoing the contract is going to lead to his release at some point. Question is, will Dallas pay Romo his 3yr/$54m contract to backup Dak? That is the million dollar question here, is Dallas going to pay Romo $18 million a season to be Dak's backup?

If the answer is no........which everybody assumes is the legit answer............then its only a matter of time before Romo is released. So no, Romo and his agent don't have to do jack if their endgame is a release.

 

[LittleD]

He has to decide if he wants to start somewhere else, if he wants max money or if staying in Dallas with family and friends is enough.........the best way to handle the situation is to renegotiate his contract immediately

He should sign a deal that guarantees him 10m over the next 2 years in base salary with 500k per games started incentives....he can add a third year option but no more guarantees

If he stays as a bak-up to Dak he gets 5m and a chance to go to the SB as a hero if Dak gets hurt......it lowers his cap hit to 15.7m saving DAL 9m on the cap this year and 15m next year


If he gets traded he gets 5m + up to 8m in starts for 13m total and a chance to join a playoff caliber team ....even if he gets hurt and misses time he has 5m coming to him in 2018........ but it keeps his cap number down for the new team that trades for him to 5m in 2017 adding more teams to the dance

Right now he is owed 3yr/54m but none of it is guaranteed, including his 14m base salary this year..... more teams would be more willing to jump if he had an incentive laden contract......his contract and his health questions are stumbling blocks but he is too good to just give away.....if teams know Dallas will keep him they will have to up their interest

DAL should also ask for conditional trades.....they could take a 1st or 2nd this year but offer back a 4th next year if he misses 8 games or more......if the trade comes after the draft just make it a conditional 1st or 3rd for 2018 depending on games played

Hogwash, Romo doesn't have to do a single thing except get conditioned to play football somewhere this year. He is not going to renegotiate anything with the Cowboys. The Cowboys hold his rights and can keep him and pay his contract or release him. They don't seem to have a trading partner right now and most likely won't unless some team gets desperate. Romo's agents are just going to let this thing play out for awhile you can bet. We will see how this thing goes when the off-season workouts begin. If Romo get's hurt during workouts, OTA's or TC if he goes, he is a vested vet and will get his entire salary for the year. Romo has lots of leverage here and he can sit back and wait for the FO to get off their
chairs and make a decision. If I were Romo and they asked me to take a paycut and backup Dak, I would give them the finger.

 

[Zekeats]

Should have traded him a long time ago instead of giving him a massive contract.

Yeah, what where they thinking. We could have had Weeden starting the past 3 years.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

Yes, he said this two weeks ago.

But just to be clear, he would redo it for the right teams only.
He's put his time in and taken the beating of 10 men, so retirement is a preferred option ahead of starting on a crap team....imo.

The whole league (and basically the local writers) assume he wiil evetually get realeased.
But maybe they can squeeze out a late rounder if Houston is up for it.
Problem is, they already gave up a lot of draft capital and dont want to give up more....and then still have to re-work the contract.

No I mean why does folks still on here talk about IF Romo would redo his contract

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Still seems like a flat out release to me. Combination of Jerry's big mouth and Romo and Elway collusion appears to be the reason we are where we are with it.

Can you enlighten us with the evidence of Romo-Elway collusion?

If Romo doesn't go to Denver I will not post for entire 2017 season.

 

[Denim Chicken]

He should release a hype video

 

[65fastback2plus2]

If Romo doesn't go to Denver I will not post for entire 2017 season.

why dont you just go all in there lol

 

[65fastback2plus2]

He should release a hype video

One of those football trick shot videos would work perfectly.

 

[SDCowboy]

If Romo doesn't go to Denver I will not post for entire 2017 season.

That's bold. You're that confident? lol

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

why dont you just go all in there lol

Not "in" enough for you? Lol
I have to allow for stupid decisions on Cowboys part.

That's bold. You're that confident? lol

Yup!
Go to best contender(best chance of hiding QB with warts and winning it all)or why bother playing?

 

[Hoofbite]

Any trade would be entirely contingent on Romo and the trade partner reaching a new deal. The hold up is the fact that teams know they don't need to trade for him. Sounds like you're expecting Romo to drop his cap number for any potential trade partner to such an extent that it would create a willingness to part ways with a pick that teams clearly don't want to part ways with.

Not sure I see the incentive for anyone. A contract will still have to be reached between Romo and the trading team. Romo does nothing by lowering his base salary because now he's negotiating from a position of having $5M in scheduled base salary rather than $14M. Basically just asking for teams to offer him less. Dallas would have more guaranteed to Romo, which puts them in the position of having to carry those guarantees if Romo isn't willing to take the lesser offers. If he didn't take the offer, where does that leave things? He retires because he doesn't want to be a backup? That would hand the new guarantees back but Dallas ultimately gets nothing just as they would if he were cut. He doesn't retire and he's marooned in Dallas and has forfeited $9M in base salary along the way?

Seems unlikely.

 

[yimyammer]

I wish Dallas would work out a deal with Romo to negotiate a give back of his bonus equal to the amount of bonus/guarantee on his renegotiated contract with his new team (with a minimum of no less than 10 million).

Example: new team gives Romo $5 million up front and 10 million guaranteed on a 2 year deal, so Romo gives back $10 million to the Cowboys as a return of the upfront bonus creating $10 million in cap room. Romo isn't out anything as he'll recoup everything with his new team.

Make the trade include a conditional 5th or 6th that can move up to a higher pick based on how many games Romo plays and how well the team does. Example: the pick rises to a 2nd round pick if they win the Super bowl.

This would facilitate a deal and give the Cowboys a nice cap rebate.

If Romo really wants to play elsewhere, it would seem to be a pretty fair deal for everyone because if he retires I understand he'd owe 15+ million (not that jeri would ever demand it but it could be used as leverage in negotiation)

Would everyone be happy with 10 million in cap space plus a conditional 5th?