I'm not anti-romo if it's a team friendly deal. I have no expectations of him surviving 4 games even if we do sign him to a team friendly deal, but I'm sure he'll play well for 4 games.
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Depends how serious Romo was about wanting to be a Bronco. Everyone (clearly including him) makes the Manning comparison, but Manning had a great injury history before the SINGLE injury that cost him a whole season and nearly ended his career. Far more importantly, Manning also had a DECADE of playoff seasons with a .500 SB record; Romo's rarely reached and NEVER exceeded the divisional round. And, of course, he's two years older than Manning was when we signed him.
He'd be great insurance if we want to test Lynchs readiness, but Siemian is too for a third as much even if Romo takes the vet minimum. Likewise, Romo'd be great insurance if we want to see if Siemians year of starting raises his game, but so is Lynch for less, and he'll be around much longer. This has "team-friendly deal" written all over it; if Romo's invested well enough he's not worried about retirement but is DEEPLY worried about retiring with a ring, fine.
However, if he wants $15M+/yr, he can and thus probably will get it, but I need to believe Elway's too smart to be the one paying it.
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If Cutler gets cut (as NFL.com suggests) i think I would be less pissed with signing him than Romo. But I'm not really sure why. Maybe just the injury factor, but still.
Putting aside the obvious disdain for Cutler, I would be apprehensive about both of them for the same reasons as I don't think either of them had great work ethics during the prime of their careers... Romo will be 37 to start the season - he's injury prone and has always come up small in the biggest situations. Why on earth would he be the answer?
I said in a previous post I would love if Cutler signed a team friendly contract and competed with Siemian and Lynch in training camp. I don't think it's a given he would beat out Siemian for starting position either, but would be fun none the less to see them compete.
Would regardless if we sign Cutler or Romo, I think we bring in a 3rd QB either in the draft or free agency just to compete with the other two QB's on our roster.
I don't know if McCoy/Musgrave can develop a blank QB slate into a franchise guy, but would MUCH rather let them try then pay $10-15M/yr for a BADLY FLAWED finished (in all senses) product who'll leave us right back here in 2-3 years no matter what. There's a very short list of QBs who still sucked at 28 but didn't go right on sucking til 38. It's not so much "a list" as "Jim Plunkett."
If Romo or Cutler wants to be cheap insurance policy, fine, but I doubt even Romo would go for that and KNOW Cutler wouldn't.