As long as we draft a QB in the 1st or 2nd round, I would love to sign Tony Romo after he gets cut. Tony for a year while our QB learns, and if Tony gets hurt, then we turn our rookie loose.
Schaub? I watched every game he played for the Texans. His "successful" years were fool's gold. He was a game manager and the product of an otherwise pretty good team around him. I hated watching him. Crash5179 is right, we have NEVER had a good QB. It's a pathetic franchise when Schaub is your only QB you can point at that did anything good. That being said, Schaub was waaaay better than Brock has been so far. That's a pretty sad statement on the state of the franchise than in 16 years we couldn't find jack at QB better than pathetic Schaub.
We have to trade for Romo and draft the best available, mobile, accurate passer available in round 3 when we pick. Everything I've read puts a cost of mid to late round conditional pick as the price which is nothing. So the price is right and you can pay Brock and Romo if you trade and re-sign Romo to a 3 year back loaded contract with higher bonus than base. If you structure it right year 1 might only cost you 4-5 million. Groom the new guy for 2-3 years. Best chance to win during your dominant D window and best chance to extend/transition that window. Of course there is risk but Romo is great when healthy and he's had an entire year to get healthy. Also BOB is a fan http://www.houstontexans.com/news/a...notch-QB/aa4e923d-af59-44d8-9cb2-39504a8ca886
#1. You are not going to have $42 million tied up at the QB spot. You have to carry Brock until next year because no one will touch that contract. You don't have the cap room. #2. You have to play D-Hop. #3. You cannot afford to give up draft pick because you have to draft ATLEAST 1 Tackle and 1 Guard. Also, you need a MLB to replace Cushing (who will be a cap casualty) and probably another CB because you are going to cut Joseph for cap reasons.
NO! You're biting your balls to spite your penis or however that american saying goes. I'll try for Rivers but that's a crack pipe dream money wise even before adding brock.
Why is this incredibly stupid idea coming back up? Do we just always need a bad idea floating around?
Trading for him would be dumb. Signing him to a backloaded deal would be about as good of a QB solution as we can hope for over the next 2-3 years.
Romo wants to win and most pundits/capologist say it's possible so I defer to them. Bonus and Structure are the keys here. Other teams do it, so can we. Joseph will restructure and Nick Martin is an extra OL pick that you're not counting for 2017. You could easily pick up an extra mid round by giving up a future mid round. We traded our 6th to Washington so that leaves us with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7th round picks. That leaves you 5 picks to fill other needs which is exactly what we had last year's draft. # of picks is not an issue. Stupid is doing the exact same thing and getting the exact same results. actually no, that's insanity and the Texans approach to QBs has been insane and unlucky.
He'd survive about 3 snaps with the current O line and if you improved the line to where Romo would survive, then many many other QB's would do just fine.
Improving this OL will take 2-3 years. Might as well have somebody back there in the meantime that can at least give you a shred of competency.
Keep telling yourself that QB don't matter in a QB driven league. Sure OL is important but won't matter if your QB is average. So again, keep telling yourself that especially as you watch the best QBs march towards a championship and the mediocre QBs go home.
