Romo to the rescue

by Dave Halprin on May 21, 2008 12:33 AM CDT in Dallas Cowboys News

I was wondering how we got the cap space to get both Terence Newman and Marion Barber signed. We only had $3.5 million under the cap. Turns out it was Tony Romo to the rescue.

The quarterback agreed to restructure his contract, but it didn't cost him a penny. In fact, it put some money in his pocket now instead of later. The Cowboys turned Romo's $6.5 million base salary into signing bonus, dropping the 2008 base salary to $605,000.

Instead of carrying a cap figure of $8.416 million this year, Romo's new cap number is almost $3.5 million, hence a saving of about $5 million and enough room to get Newman and Barber done and then some when added to the roughly $3.5 million they already had.

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I guess thats how we'll be able to re-sign

everyone we want including Hamlin, Canty, T.O. and Ware who all should be next in line.

Guys like Romo will step up and be the ultimate team players. These next few years should be one hell of a run as this team will be loaded for bear.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on May 21, 2008 7:08 AM CDT reply actions

+1

I think Jerry is making a good decision to stay with the key players that are driving this team. I think with the draft + FAs+ UDFAs, we’ve more than made up for anyone we lost since the season ended, and are a stronger unit because of it.

How Bout Them Cowboys!

by sprprsnmn on May 21, 2008 8:30 AM CDT reply actions