News: Witten says its his job to make it tough on the coaches to not play him

BigCatMonaco · Jun 10, 2019

29 false starts accepted in his 239 career games.

BigCatMonaco · Jun 10, 2019

rocyaice said:
I really don't understand why he was brought back. Mike Fisher and people like him keep saying he's the best tight end on the team.....I don't see how Jarwin or Schultz can't do what he does.

Wittens career low is 35 catches.
Last years top statistically TE for Dallas had 27 catches. Witten in 2017 had 26 first downs alone.

TheMarathonContinues · Jun 10, 2019

BigCatMonaco said:
Wittens career low is 35 catches.
Last years top statistically TE for Dallas had 27 catches. Witten in 2017 had 26 first downs alone.

That’s fine. I’d still want the young guys to get reps.

Big D · Jun 11, 2019

Witten's right. He should attack the position lik he always has and If the young guys can beat him out for the position we'll all be better off.

GimmeTheBall! · Jun 11, 2019

Mannix said:
Great, more 5 yard curl patterns with a 1 yard RAC for the next 2-3 years.....pfffffttt!!!

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/Witten-Wants-his-Snaps-With-Cowboys-511087991.html

Man with the silver tongue, that Jason. I will be surprised if fatso Witten is ready with his fitness.

Bullflop · Jun 11, 2019

Witten's supposed to get around 25 reps a game, according to reports.

It may prove somewhat interesting to see what happens in that regard.

Falco78 · Jun 11, 2019

Big_D said:
If you’re overthrowing to the TE. You’re either not getting it to the outside or you’re just unable to make the throws. Not saying Dak can’t, but overusing that check down means a problem exists somewhere else. This is their best offense in years so that should not be the case.

How dare you not be a Debbie downer?!?!?!?!?!

Falco78 · Jun 11, 2019

GimmeTheBall! said:
Man with the silver tongue, that Jason. I will be surprised if fatso Witten is ready with his fitness.

Fatso?!?!?! You will be lucky to have ever seen any of his lamer shapes...

Melonfeud · Jun 11, 2019

BigCatMonaco said:
At his oldest, in 2017, the average depth of target for witten was almost 8 yards.

* it's pretty sad when nobody wants to "hear" the facts concerning the #82's solid footballish abilities, as it's wholly non- conducive to their paraded lame narrative

Melonfeud · Jun 11, 2019

Bobhaze said:
Hopefully, Witten is the 5th or 6th option for this offense next year.

More than likely he'll be the 2nd/3rd option,,,er,,, till the O.L. proves it can allow the processing time required it would take a q.b. to analyze that many "reads",,,least ways that's what I'm
" picturing " Bob.

CowboyRoy · Jun 11, 2019

so you want Rico over Witten? Yah, I missed all that.

Witten is head and shoulders better then anyone else we have at blocking, catching, getting open, leadership.

I can understand wanting to move on at the position, but not when we have no one else. It should have been abundantly clear after the horror show last year with our TE in both the run and passing game.

For me, Witten is a welcome site until we get someone worthy of unseating him.

nate dizzle · Jun 11, 2019

Mannix said:
Great, more 5 yard curl patterns with a 1 yard RAC for the next 2-3 years.....pfffffttt!!!

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/Witten-Wants-his-Snaps-With-Cowboys-511087991.html

How many of those catches were first downs?

cowboyblue22 · Jun 11, 2019

he is one of garrets favs so he will get all the playing time he wants whether its right for the team or not

BigCatMonaco · Jun 11, 2019

rocyaice said:
That’s fine. I’d still want the young guys to get reps.

That’s fine. You just said I don’t see why the young guys can’t do what he does. I was just showing you that in their first year getting snaps without witten, they all fell short of wittens worst season

GMO415 · Jun 11, 2019

Witten is not and will never be the future of this team. He's one-and-done.

nate dizzle · Jun 11, 2019

GMO415 said:
Witten is not and will never be the future of this team. He's one-and-done.

Did someone say he was the future?

Stash · Jun 11, 2019

If he's playing better than Jarwin or Schultz? Fine, give him those snaps. Play your best players. But if the TE position isn't getting as many snaps overall as in years past in Moore's offense? I don't want to hear him grumbling about it.

Big_D · Jun 11, 2019

37 years old after a year off, we'll see what the coaches do with that? He can block and catch but he's also part of a TE committee.. that's where he's at at this point in his career and that's where the team is at today. Makes no sense to think he'll go back to anything close to the the type of production he had before retirement.

ShiningStar · Jun 11, 2019

i still dont like this move, having a HOF TE didnt get us anything, so i dont feel we eed a HoF TE going forward, however we need younger and more athetic and i think that was coming on late int eh season

GhostOfPelluer · Jun 11, 2019

America's Cowboy said:
Witten was getting beat at blocking half the time his last 2 years. That's not including the many times he would go false start on many key 3rd & short plays, resulting in killed drives. Did you forget so soon or did you not realize it?

Schultz and Jarwin stink at blocking. Rico stunk at first until he started to understand his proper blocking assignments halfway through last season. On 1 play at the goal line where Dak ran in for a TD, Rico caved in the whole left side with a monster block. Rico also had several good blocks towards the end of the season. I guess you missed those?

He had one false start in 2017, three in 2016. Each happened on 1st down.

EDIT: Realized I was late to the party, although the 1st down was added info. Didn't mean to pile on.

News: Witten says its his job to make it tough on the coaches to not play him

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