Former ESPN analyst Jason Witten named as Cowboys coaching candidate
Witten of course played for the Cowboys for 15 seasons before briefly retiring to become a color analyst on Monday Night Football.
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“We have all intention of including Witt and Boog in our draft buildup because of their knowledge and insight. You’ll see them all over.”
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Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten and Booger McFarland seem set to call Monday Night Football for at least another year
"I don’t want to live in the knee-jerk world of, ‘Hey social media doesn’t like him, they don’t like this or that,’ and make a change. I just want to see it play out."
Jason Witten turns down request to come out of retirement, which is unfortunate for those who watch Monday Night Football
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Jason Witten might be owning his mistakes on Monday Night Football, but he needs to dramatically improve for this to work long-term
"Yeah, there’s been some flubs. I mean, I made mistakes. You try to own it, you embrace it. Hell, I’m not perfect, I’ve certainly had my fair share of mistakes on live television and more than anything else you try to embrace it, you laugh at it, you smile at it, I had the remark on Twitter that you don’t try to deny it."
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Jason Witten says NFL roughing-the-passer calls going ‘a little bit to the left wing’
I knew they wanted to make it about the health and safety, and protecting these quarterbacks. But it just seems like we went a little bit to the left wing on that, you know?”
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Jason Witten calls Twitter “locker room poison,” while Dez Bryant uses it to respond to critics, bash Cowboys’ “garbage-ass play calling”
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Jason Witten to Monday Night Football is reportedly a done deal
Witten will end his playing career to serve as a game analyst on ESPN.
Jason Witten reportedly offered $4-4.5 million by ESPN, more than twice his NFL max, and another network may be in play
It sounds Witten could make a lot more as a broadcaster than as a player in 2018.