Cowboys expected to release Tony Romo within 2 weeks

The Dallas Cowboys have apparently had no luck drumming up trade interest for Tony Romo, and it appears as though they are getting close to releasing the veteran quarterback.

According to Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys are expected to release Romo "likely within the next two weeks." That move would free up just over $5 million in salary cap space and allow Dallas to start addressing some of its other needs, such as bringing in another backup quarterback.

If Dallas keeps Romo on the roster through June 1, they could designate him a post-June 1 cut and save $14 million in cap space for 2017 by spreading Romo's cap hits out over the next two years. However, it seems unlikely that the Jones family would leave both Romo and the team in limbo for that long.

The Cowboys are not planning to bring Mark Sanchez back, and they reportedly have interest in veteran quarterback Josh McCown. They explored ways to acquire McCown last offseason when backup Kellen Moore broke his ankle, but the Cleveland Browns wanted too much in a trade. McCown is now a free agent.

Romo wants to play for a contender, and one of the teams on his wish list is supposedly going to be interested if Romo becomes a free agent. From the sound of it, that will be happening in the near future.

Sign heeem!

Originally posted by ChazBoner:

Sign heeem!

And trade him to Washington for cousins. We get our qb, skins get a good qb and we all tell Jones to stick it.

other than cousins, he is the best attainable QB. I saw we go for it! We sign him and Alshon and then build our defense through the draft, and we could be pretty competitive in 2017

Pretty much Jets, broncos, Texans or bears

He needs to retire before he becomes handicapped and in a wheelchair.

if we can improve the protection in the pocket , I guess I wouldn't be against him being our stop-gap QB, especially if we are going to be a run heavy offense that limits his exposure and chances of getting decked , but we would definitely need a capable back up QB , cause you know damn well there is a chance he is one good hit away from retirement , taking him would be a huge risk , but he does have the passing skills that fits Kyle's system

He'd be unstoppable in flag football.

Originally posted by TonyStarks:
He needs to retire before he becomes handicapped and in a wheelchair.

thats what they said about manning and he won another SB haha

The niner fan in me wants to see this guy get blasted but not that badly. Lol

I don't mind sign to Romo but he is injured lot. Oh man.. I don't know what I do. Romo can make our WRS look better much Cuz it's fact..

Originally posted by BuZzB05:

I don't mind sign to Romo but he is injured lot. Oh man.. I don't know what I do. Romo can make our WRS look better much Cuz it's fact..

Fact no romo make WRs too better not much.

lol ^

no Romo for me plz

Do not want

Romo would be an upgrade over last years QBs.

Sign him!

Romo had time to heal properly. While I don't expect him to sign with us, he would be a huge huge sign.
It could also attract bigger name WRs to us.