Tony Romo and CBS Sports have ended their nine-year partnership (Getty Images)
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback had four years and about $72 million left on the 10-year, $180 million deal he signed in 2020. He didn’t study and failed to learn new players and schemes. ” Romo joined CBS immediately after retiring from the NFL in 2017 and quickly built a reputation for predicting plays before they happened. That success helped lead to the huge 2020 extension. But according to Marchand, CBS executives had already discussed Romo’s broadcasting work with him before Super Bowl LVIII in 2024.
CBS and Romo announced Friday that they had mutually agreed to part ways, ending his time as the network’s lead NFL analyst. CBS confirmed that Watt will continue as the network’s lead NFL analyst for the remainder of the season.
CBS had concerns about Romo’s work and reliability before the arrest, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand. He wrote that CBS wanted to “break free” of Romo’s contract because of concerns about his “unpredictability, lack of preparation, and unreliability. His sources also told him Romo “didn’t work hard enough as a broadcaster” and “the further he got away from playing, the less he knew.
Tony Romo’s nine-year run with CBS Sports is over, but the latest reporting suggests his July OWI arrest was not the full story behind the split. The legal trouble, his reporting suggests, gave the network a reason to finally make a change. Marchand’s reporting points to problems that went beyond what happened in Milwaukee. The arrangement has now become permanent.