"I signed my contract yesterday, so I'm staying with Roush," said Edwards, who negotiated the deal himself
with Roush Fenway president Geoff Smith. "I looked at everything and I talked to everybody and, for me, the
number one thing is looking into the future and saying, 'Where can I win the most races and have the most
success?'"
Edwards, who has won three Cup races this season and is 10th in the championship standings in the final
year of his current contract, listened to offers from other teams before making his decision.
"I was honored at the people who I got to speak with, and I just feel like, for me personally, this is
where I want to be for the near future, and we got it done. It's good. I'm real happy about it. It's a huge
relief. It really wasn't that painful.
"Geoff Smith and I get along really well, and we just pretty much sat down, and he's really easy for me to
deal with. It took us about a week-and-a-half of going back and forth with just little things, and I feel
like the luckiest guy in the world for the contract I got."
Edwards deflected questions about the term of the new contract, though team owner Jack Roush said that, to
the best of his knowledge, the new deal is for three years.
"A week is a long time around here," Edwards said. "It's a great contract. It's a dream contract for me,
and I'm really excited about it."
Jamie McMurray, one of Edwards' four Roush Fenway teammates, wasn't surprised to learn his teammate had
re-signed.
"I didn't picture Carl going anywhere," McMurray said. "When you're winning the amount of races he has --
and he's had a chance to win even more than what he did so far this year -- a guy would be crazy to want to
leave Roush Fenway and go somewhere else.
"I'm sure that the offers were everywhere, and it's probably very appealing, but I can't imagine a guy like
that wanting to leave when you're having the success that you are."
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