It's real now. What would you give up for Tony Romo?

I'd give them the 3rd in 2018 that we just got for Bouye leaving lol. Or Bergstrom and a 4th

 

Two season ending ACL injuries. He's a shell of what he used to be and makes too much for his level of production.

 

He's a leader on and off the field and if you haven't noticed he's finished both of the last two seasons on the field. Who gives a **** if he got hurt on contact plays he drives that defense. Do you really think the defense would've been number 1 without J.J last season if they didn't have Cush? He's been in the league for eight years now, no one is the same after playing this game that long but he still brings fire and intensity to every huddle and tackles with technical precision. Get your mind right bro

 

McKinney is a much better athlete than Cushing at this point, but Cushing is the more cerebral player. He diagnoses plays better than McKinney as of right now.

 

Question for you guys. Let's say we do get romo or just in general another starting QB.

How do we go about dumping osweiler?. Can we just simply release him?. Wouldn't make sense to keep an overpaid QB

 

Also could you imagine the irony of getting Adrian Peterson and tony romo and our back ups make more then the starters. [thats of coarse there healthy]

 

You cut him after this season. That's how it's going to work. If you pick up Romo and draft a QB then you have Romo, Osweiler, and drafted QB this season.

 

Ah so there's no way to release him this year?

That's a real thorn in our side. A lot of money we won't be able to use for our team

 

It could happen, but there's no incentive to do so, you'd just be paying him to not be here......which to some who are thinking about things completely emotionally rather than logically would be a good idea, but I think it has next to no chance of actually happening.

Realistically Savage is the guy that gets cut because there would be cap savings as a result. If you are going to bring in Romo and draft a QB, you know Savage has no future with the team, so that would be the right move.

 

They can but they still would have to pay him like 15mil. Might as well keep him for one more year

 

So I realize we still would pay him but we wouldn't gain 15 mil in cap space by doing so?.

Obviously yeah keeping him would be the way to go if not

 

Conditional pick and you gotta do it. Romo to D-Hop could be special.

 

You have a right to your opinion, but don't insult people when their opinion doesn't match yours. He didn't say anything insulting, only stated his opinion, and you've told him to get his mind right and called him an a-hole. Relax man. Be kind to your fellow posters.

 

Nope, he'd still be a 19 million dollar cap hit even if he was cut. You don't save all that much by cutting or trading Savage, but you can get some cap savings so IMO that's why he's gone if the Texans get Romo.....which I have less and less faith in by the day.

 

Well he's traded now so forget about his money owed.

 

LOL. Uh, no - if they could generate $15MM in cap space by releasing him right now... he'd be released.

His 2017 salary ($16MM) is guaranteed; they also still "owe" him $9MM of his signing bonus. (He's already pocketed his full signing bonus - but the team spreads it out over the life of the contract for salary cap purposes. His signing bonus was $12MM x4 years = $3MM/year.)

If he's cut or traded, that remaining signing bonus (again, $9MM) accelerates to the '17 cap, which becomes $25MM. They can designate him a June 1 cut - that would allow them to spread the '18 and '19 portions of his bonus (totaling $6MM) to next year's cap. In that scenario, he'd "only" count $19MM against this year's cap. (And then $6MM against next year's cap. BUT... the Texans would not be able to use that savings until June 1.

 

He got traded.

 

I would give up hope for the Texans.