Jerah jones is an idiot!

No link, just saw breaking news on NFL Network.

Jerry Jones is completely destroying that team...not that I am complaining. Can not believe they paid that much for Romo. I know it's for 6 years, but damn!

$55 million guaranteed

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000 ... -extension

It's on the NFL.com website as well. Front page. I for one am happy to see it. More Romo means no worries about a Cowboy Championship anytime in the near future.

Wow. Jerry Jones likes to reward non productive failure. Where do I sign up?!!!

I am so glad that I am not a Cowboys fan because I would be furious right now.

Well we know the battle will now be between the Giants and Skins for the next 6 years.

TheLargentLine wrote:I am so glad that I am not a Cowboys fan because I would be furious right now.

Agreed.

Same guaranteed money as Drew Brees. A little more than Flacco.

Jerry Jones, ladies and gentlemen.

While everyone else is wondering if the cowboys should go in a different direction, Jerry Jones is handing out 55 million in guaruntees.

It's official. Jerry has fully morphed into Al Davis.

People over on bloggingtheboys see quite happy about it.

Bwahahahahah. This is almost as bad as the Sanchez contract.

This proves the fact that the Flynn contract that would hit a team with $5.25 million for next year is completely absurd and that amount of money would make them non-competible which is why he isn't worth anything on the open market...........

Man that money RW is about to make in 2-3 years is gonna be obscene!

Some fun tweets on the subject from our very own Malcom Smith - https://twitter.com/MalcSmitty

$55 million guaranteed. $55 MILLION GUARANTEED.

The Cowboys will never win another championship until Jerry Jones either dies or swallows his pride and hires a GM.

Funny I'm not that much of Romo basher. I think he does a pretty good job. Like Greene running the ball he has the reputation of making a mistake at key times. Fortunately his biggest one against the Seahawks at Seahawk Stadium.

But they have taken a competitive team away from him a chunk at a time for the last several years making it pretty hard for them to compete.

Discussing the Boys with my old store manager boss last year I mentioned the game all the fans blamed him for losing when he threw the ball 46 times. How can it be all his fault if he has to throw that much?

Spend some of that money on the team.

Donovan McNabb is hatin'

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutd ... --nfl.html

wow, just wow. All I can say, is I am glad I am not a cowboys fan. What a horrific deal.

I like Romo a lot. This won't kill the Cowboys.

Rat wrote:I like Romo a lot. This won't kill the Cowboys.

Only because they are pretty much dead already.

I like Romo. That said:

Al Davis -> Carson Palmer; Jerry Jones -> Tony Romo

Everyone knew that Oakland overpaid for Palmer, and the reason was clear- Al Davis knew he didn't have long to live and wanted to make one last push for a title. Jerry Jones is no spring chicken himself, and if he wants to build a new contending team from scratch he needed to start yesterday. I never blamed Romo in the past for all the 8-8 or 9-7 seasons, but pretty soon, they'll be having mediocre seasons because of Romo instead of having them despite him.

Here is what I hate about this deal. Tony Romo would have been a free agent next year. He would have hit the market a month before his 34th birthday. What's the going rate for a 34 year old QB, especially one with Romo's image problem? I'm thinking if Romo had been available in open free agency, you're looking at Kolb money, max.

Instead, they pay him close to Manning/Brees money, on a deal that keeps him under contract until he's almost 40. The soonest they can get out of the contract without eating dead money is 2019, Romo's age 38 season.

I've defended Jerry Jones many times, but this was a big mistake. At the very worst, you could lose Romo next offseason and still draft a QB like Manziel, Bridgewater, or Boyd in the 2014 draft by moving up. This was not only a poor long term decision, but a poor use of resources, IMO. If you are willing to give Romo that kind of money, you could at least wait til UFA because no other team would offer money like that.

Jones' biggest mistake wasn't the deal itself, but for painting himself into a corner and making it necessary:

John Clayton
@ClaytonESPN: The Cowboys had to do a Tony Romo deal. They had $24,000 of cap room. Plus, they needed to secure their starting QB. Much needed.

And with the way Romo's old contract was structured he couldn't be franchised next year. Romo had all the leverage.

Hey Kip they could lose Romo next year and not have a decent backup for him and no money to get one. I wouldn't wish bad on Romo but that would really chap the 'Boys chances.

Romo's been lucky but if he gets hurt during that time they are in a huge world of hurt.

Not that that's a bad thing.

Got to go check out the Cowboys boards, this is hilarious!

Should have traded Romo to KC for their #1 and used a 3rd/4th to acquire Flynn. Would they really have been worse off?

Shadowhawk wrote:$55 million guaranteed. $55 MILLION GUARANTEED.

The Cowboys will never win another championship until Jerry Jones either dies or swallows his pride and hires a GM.

This is pure, delicious Shadenfreude, and I'm lovin' every minute of it. The irony of it is this is one thing both Seahawks fans and 49ers fans are equally ROFL'ing about.

I'd speculate Romo has to have incriminating picture of Jerrah to pull this contract off, but urp, seriously, ughhhhh... gah!

Love this move. Too bad we won't get to see the Cowboys this season, or in the playoffs so I could truly enjoy it...

Romo is a great QB. People have ridiculous hate for him because he hasn't won any SBs as a Cowboys QB and the spotlight is on him 24/7. I also think he has just been WAY overpaid. Should have been guaranteed a lot less. Looking at the market, and the future, Jerry made the right choice keeping him around. The money was the only problem.

MrCarey wrote:Romo is a great QB. People have ridiculous hate for him because he hasn't won any SBs as a Cowboys QB and the spotlight is on him 24/7. I also think he has just been WAY overpaid. Should have been guaranteed a lot less. Looking at the market, and the future, Jerry made the right choice keeping him around. The money was the only problem.

He is a great QB, but they overpaid? K.

MrCarey wrote:Romo is a great QB. People have ridiculous hate for him because he hasn't won any SBs as a Cowboys QB and the spotlight is on him 24/7. I also think he has just been WAY overpaid. Should have been guaranteed a lot less. Looking at the market, and the future, Jerry made the right choice keeping him around. The money was the only problem.

He's won one playoff game, and is the biggest choke artist this planet has ever seen, "great" isn't a word i'd use to describe Romo.

I don't know, Throw. I think it's pretty great that he's only won one playoff game and that he chokes all the time.

You disagree?

Hard to win it all when the team around you is terrible. He wasn't scoring all those points against his own team. He had a few too many turnovers, but that is him putting too much pressure on himself because his defense won't do their job. Needs a healthy run game, too.

Interested to hear John Shango's reaction.

108 million per playoff win. Wow that's a lot.

But.

That's his quarterback (sniff, sniff). That's....his......quarterback. (tear streams slowly down cheeck.)

Greenhell wrote:Jerah jones is an idiot!

No link, just saw breaking news on NFL Network.

Jerry Jones is the worst GM in the NFL and maybe in all of pro sports!
I heard when Tony Romo signed his 6 year contract he saw his shadow which means 6 more years of choking for him and the cowboys!

I would rather pay that money for Romo then I would Flacco

MrCarey wrote:Romo is a great QB. People have ridiculous hate for him because he hasn't won any SBs as a Cowboys QB and the spotlight is on him 24/7. I also think he has just been WAY overpaid. Should have been guaranteed a lot less. Looking at the market, and the future, Jerry made the right choice keeping him around. The money was the only problem.

Romo is not a great QB, he is a great FANTASY FOOTBALL QB! And he has had some good teams around him. Romo is a choke artist plain and simple, his playoff record tells he whole story!

kidhawk wrote:It's on the NFL.com website as well. Front page. I for one am happy to see it. More Romo means no worries about a Cowboy Championship anytime in the near future.

BINGO!

MontanaHawk05 wrote:Interested to hear John Shango's reaction.

That should be an instant classic!

get the kids out da room !

i think Romo's a solid QB, i just don't think he's a Championship quality QB....too many poor decisions.. bad deal in my opinion...

I've been watching football since 1964 and I cannot remember a bigger choke artist in all those years than Tony Romo. Guy simply finds a way to lose when the team needs a win the most......usually by throwing a horrific int. Jerruh Jones has indeed become Al Davis. I love every second of this cuz I despise the Cowpatties so very, very much and this guarantees they will likely not win a playoff game in the next several years, and likely not even get to the playoffs.

That's probably the worst overpay i've seen in along time rest in peace Dallas.

Look at the bright side, 6 more years of Romo jokes......................LOL

The Cowboys remind me a lot of the Chargers...blessed with some very good talent at multiple positions but never capitalizing on it and losing that very talent to age or free agency along the way. A little dysfunctional and lackadaisical when it comes to going out on the field and performing.

Winterfell wrote:The Cowboys remind me a lot of the Chargers...blessed with some very good talent at multiple positions but never capitalizing on it and losing that very talent to age or free agency along the way. A little dysfunctional and lackadaisical when it comes to going out on the field and performing.

Chargers are my (distant) 2nd favorite team and I hope this changes now that A.J. Smith is gone. But yeah, in the last 10 years I agree with your assessment of the franchise.

Seeing what Kolb and Palmer got the Romo deal doesn't seem that bad. Not that I think he is good.