Tony Romo is in the last year of his contract that has paid him over $67 million. While some are saying the Cowboys should look into drafting a quarterback in the 2013 Draft, the Cowboys are looking into extending his contract.
“Tony is a key piece of what we’re about going forward,” Jones said via ESPNDallas.com‘s Calvin Watkins. “We’re certainly going to be looking at his situation (in) time. We’ve historically (extended contracts) with quarterbacks for the Dallas Cowboys ahead of time. We did it with Troy (Aikman) and we certainly want to look at that with Tony so we can all move forward in terms of how we want to play around our salary cap with our team. Tony is the key piece in terms of how your cap is represented.”
At some point Romo is going to have to have a Flacco or Eli style playoff to be considered a success in Dallas. If he doesn’t the Romo Era will always be seen as what could have been and also this…..