Dallas Cowboys Interested in Long-Term Contract Extension with Tony Romo

February 12, 2013   ·   Tyler Conway   ·   Jump to comments

If the Dallas Cowboys have anything to say about it, Tony Romo will be their franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future. 
Speaking about the state of Romo's expiring contract on Tuesday, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said the Cowboys would like to sign their star quarterback to a long-term extension at some point (per ESPN's Calvin Watkins): 
Tony is a key piece of what we're about going forward. 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.
Though Jones is undoubtedly sincere in wanting to keep Romo in Dallas, the team has more than one motivation in mind. The overarching reason the Cowboys nee...

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