Ben Rogers predicts Witten may return

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ClintDagger said:
Don’t see him coming back mid year. If ESPN were to fire him after this season it wouldn’t shock me to see him back. But he wasn’t a game changer by the end of his career. I don’t see the benefit for the Cowboys.
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Jason Witten 63 rec 560 yds 5 TD's


*Geoff Swaim 26 rec 242 yds 1 TD
Rico Gathers 2 rec 46 yds 0 TD's
Dalton Shultz 4 rec 32 yds 0 TD's

Essentially more production, a more reliable target for Dak, better blocker, and better redzone threat (our current problem area). Also the middle of the field has largely been non-existent since Witten retired.

Polar opposite on this one. Hard to come up with a reason they wouldn't benifit.
 
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Staubacher said:
Witten is getting better at the mnf gig. If he walks away from that he may never get a lucrative announcing gig again. Just to play a few games?

I'd gladly take him back because he's better than what we have
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Lol. Lucrative... Witten has made over 72 million dollars with The Cowboys. He don’t need the money. He knows the system and would bring a threat we need. Now that Dak has some legit WR that he is used to it may work with Witten where he can run more than 3 yard routes or don’t have to come back to the ball to bale him out. Problem is that Dak hates using the middle of the field where TE work. So even having a great TE don’t mean he would use him.
 
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TruBluSince1982 said:
Jason Witten 63 rec 560 yds 5 TD's


*Geoff Swaim 26 rec 242 yds 1 TD
Rico Gathers 2 rec 46 yds 0 TD's
Dalton Shultz 4 rec 32 yds 0 TD's

Essentially more production, a more reliable target for Dak, better blocker, and better redzone threat (our current problem area). Also the middle of the field has largely been non-existent since Witten retired.

Polar opposite on this one. Hard to come up with a reason they wouldn't benifit.
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It would start to free up Beez and the run game if Dak used him. He has never used the middle of the field much. But would love to see this. He can block and Dak is comfortable with him.
 
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numnuts23 said:
Didn't he also predict Romo was gonna come out of retirement earlier in the year?

I think Ben is just like most of us...fandom wanting that 1 more shot for Witten and Romo
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Id pay to see it
 
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Witten would not be in football shape. Not even close to it.

And don’t say he doesn’t need it. That would be a double standard.

Ride the Rico wave.
 
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TruBluSince1982 said:
Jason Witten 63 rec 560 yds 5 TD's


*Geoff Swaim 26 rec 242 yds 1 TD
Rico Gathers 2 rec 46 yds 0 TD's
Dalton Shultz 4 rec 32 yds 0 TD's

Essentially more production, a more reliable target for Dak, better blocker, and better redzone threat (our current problem area). Also the middle of the field has largely been non-existent since Witten retired.

Polar opposite on this one. Hard to come up with a reason they wouldn't benifit.
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I’m not seeing it. If you annualize the current production based on targets it’s basically in the same ballpark as last year. And you’re dead wrong about the blocking aspect. Witten’s blocking had deteriorated a lot by the end and he was consistently missing assignments and getting flagged about once every 3 or 4 games for holding or false start because he was “cheating” due to not being able to get to the assignment. And all that is a Witten that went through camp and was in game shape, etcetera. Whatever you’d get now would be a lesser version of 2017. Again, I don’t see what the benefit is for the Cowboys.
 
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I wouldn't rule this out if Witten isn't enjoying booth or gets sense they will move on from him after season. My question is: Is he in shape?
 

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ClintDagger said:
I’m not seeing it. If you annualize the current production based on targets it’s basically in the same ballpark as last year. And you’re dead wrong about the blocking aspect. Witten’s blocking had deteriorated a lot by the end and he was consistently missing assignments and getting flagged about once every 3 or 4 games for holding or false start because he was “cheating” due to not being able to get to the assignment. And all that is a Witten that went through camp and was in game shape, etcetera. Whatever you’d get now would be a lesser version of 2017. Again, I don’t see what the benefit is for the Cowboys.
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Maybe so. Still seems like Dak and Witten looked alot different than Dak and ???

All I know is folks made the claim we would be better without Dez or a number one receiver in general and I never bought that one either. Something tells me if Witten stepped back in this line-up even today, we would see an uptick in this offensive production even if it's a mediocre one.

Seems like it's as simple as production vs no production from my viewpoint. I know which one i'm taking.

Oh well, most likely never find out
 

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Pessimist_cowboy said:


He has good inside sources. He’s never wrong. In the past he knew Romo was going to retire before all of us. He knew Witten was going to retire before all of us. He knew The Cowboys would make a splash trade before it happened. Now he’s saying the Witten return is at 60%. Check his twitter feed they’re also talking about it on the fan.
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Why do we want him back? Why does Witten want to return? He will never get the MNF job again.
Yes Witten has not been great on MNF, but this is a great opportunity for him.
What does Witten come back to? A 9 win team than will get Waxed in the first round to the 6 seed.. Carolina, Seattle, etc? This is a foolish discussion
 
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Pessimist_cowboy said:
You might want to look at Witten’s recent twitter feed.
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Ok now I'm intrigued.

Wit's twitter feed reads like a Cowboys homer. Even had a tweet a few weeks ago stating he thinks about coming back and playing, "Every Thursday, Sunday, and Monday! It never leaves you."
 
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well it is possible, that witten could come back for say last 3 games, and then go back to the mnf gig next season.
If witten came back it would make him a media sensation, and that is why espn hired him , they didnt hire him cause he
was a good broadcaster.

If Tony came back it would be huge media sensation, and I think he could retain his gig at cbs, because he would be the talk of the football
world.
I think Tony would have come back if Jerry had asked and made a good offer.
but Jerry cant do that without crapping on Dak and sort of admitting he made a mistake choosing Dak over Tony.
So that is why that wont happen unless Dak was to get hurt, then they would have the perfect excuse.

But the witten deal is possible because they dont have to crap on anyone, and it would put a big spotlight on dallas and witten.
It would benefit espn if this happened. so they should be for it.
 
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TruBluSince1982 said:
Maybe so. Still seems like Dak and Witten looked alot different than Dak and ???

All I know is folks made the claim we would be better without Dez or a number one receiver in general and I never bought that one either. Something tells me if Witten stepped back in this line-up even today, we would see an uptick in this offensive production even if it's a mediocre one.

Seems like it's as simple as production vs no production from my viewpoint. I know which one i'm taking.

Oh well, most likely never find out
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I think Witten had one skill left by the end and that was the ability to find the gap in the zone and sit down. So he was still a weapon on third and short or around the goal line. But the trade off was he couldn’t stretch the field, couldn’t be used for TE screens, and he was becoming a borderline blocking liability. So if he came back he’d be a mixed bag. The problem was because he was a HOFer they felt forced to play him pretty much every snap unless they went empty and 5 WRs. It would have made more sense to use him situationally but that wasn’t going to happen.

I have seen recent stuff on film from Jarwin that gives me hope that he might be at least somewhat of a downfield threat with the right matchup. People forget that this is essentially his rookie season so maybe the light is starting to come on. There were teams like Philly interested in him last year so I think there might be something there we haven’t seen yet. Let’s hope...
 
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