Tony Romo Extension

Honestly, I think Romo's an excellent qb, with a God-awful offensive line and an inconsistent running game.  If the 'Boys can protect him, and Demarco can stay healthy, they'll put up gobs of points.

Jerry's GM is an idiot

McNabb has a point

Tony Romo is a solid QB - top 50% in the league for sure.

Who else are they gonna get?

Might not translate to IRL but in my big money fantasy league I ended up with Romo as my starting QB and won the whole thing. Perfectly serviceable.

Of course I got him in the eighth round and filled my roster with studs before that point. Something Dallas doesn't give him: a quality supporting cast.

Regardless, for us anti-Cowboys:

Wow man, putting Romo in Danny White territory?  That's just cold man.     White had one thing on Romo...he could punt.  Other than that, Romo blows him outta the water.  

Granted, it's very hard to defend Tony.  That muffed handle in the Seattle playoff game was rough.  But Danny White?  C'mon now, unless I'm totally forgetting what he brought to the table, he doesn't even come close to what Romo brings to the table.  

When it comes to Cowboy quarterbacks, Staubach was the greatest, with Aikman a close second.  What did each of them have in common that Romo doesn't have?  A great defense.  I don't know about Staubach's o-line, but Aikman was blessed with one of the best o-lines ever as well.

I wasn't at all surprised by the contract.  There are a lot of teams that would have given Romo that kind of money in a heartbeat.  It's not you can just trade for a guy like Brady, Peyton, Brees, or Rodgers and automatically upgrade from a good QB to an elite one.

6 more years of Romo jokes seems a whole lot better than 6 more years of Quincy Carter, Drew Henson, and Vinny Testaverde.

Perhaps I could offer a different perspective for your consideration regarding the Jets?  Imagine the year is 2008.  Imagine Brett Favre was in an organization that didn't have its head up its buttinsky.  Favre led the Jets to an 8-3 start when he tore his biceps tendon.  The Jets went on to stink it up the last 5 games with an obviously injured Favre still playing.  Now, if the Jets management was smart, they would have defended favre against the press that was calling him over the hill, done, etc.  They didn't.  Favre went on to retire from the Jets to get free...and he signed with my Vikings.  He threw for a record 33 td's to 7 int's. (an all-time NFL record at that time as no qb had ever thrown for more than 32 td's with as few as 7 int's)  The Vikes went 12-4...the Jets went 9-7 with Sanchez firing 12 td's to 20 int's.

btw, 1st it was Danny White, now Mark Sanchez!  Come on now, those 2 jokers aren't in the same league as Romo...you know that too.  

This or any other future draft pack is better than throwing more money to Romo.  He may be good at completing passes, but a winner he is not.  

Great stats, folds when it counts... I thought he was talking about McNabb.

I hate to break the narrative of whether or not Romo 'deserves' this contract and point out that this was a mandatory move on the Cowboys' part if they wanted to be able to participate in this year's draft. They had $120k to spend on draft picks prior to this restructuring, now they have a few million to pay their draft picks(and that's about it). This contract had nothing to do with Romo and everything to do with the Cowboys' (self-imposed) financial difficulties. Just wait until next year when they have to do this dance again with guys like Ratliff & Free(and no, you can't cut him because he'll be a bigger cap hit if you cut him this year than keeping him), only they'll have guys like Sean Lee & Tyron Smith coming up for contracts too.

The Cowboys boned themselves with previous contracts and they're paying for it now. Romo's deal actually helps the team over the next 2-3 years, he did them a favor. Stop focusing on the aggregate sum of the contract, that wasn't the point of the deal.

Yes, that's what good GMs do...the great ones draft HOF quarterbacks in the 6th round who win Super Bowls and marry super-models.  

I can't help myself. This is who our 3rd rd QB married. Not quite comparable.