PFT: Report: ESPN offering Witten $4-4.5M per year

[Hawkeye0202]

He's done.......
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...offering-jason-witten-4-4-5-million-per-year/


Report: ESPN offering Jason Witten $4-4.5 million per year
Posted by Mike Florio on April 30, 2018, 1:08 PM EDT

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If Cowboys tight end Jason Witten plays football this year, he’ll earn a base salary of $1.05 million and up to $750,000 in per-game roster bonuses. If he accepts the pending offer from ESPN, he’ll make a lot more than that.

David Moore of the Dallas Morning News reports that the pending Monday Night Football offer to Witten would pay $4-4.5 million per year.

If Witten ultimately decides to keep playing for less than half the amount he’d make by not playing, the potential alternatives could include Kurt Warner, Rex Ryan, Matt Hasselbeck, Booger McFarland, and Louis Riddick. According to the Washington Post, each of those four candidates has been considered for the job.

Whoever gets the gig will be paired with Joe Tessitore, the new play-by-play announcer. ESPN has been working for months to find a replacement for Jon Gruden, who left after nine years to become coach of the Raiders.

 

[Bowdown27]

It’s an opportunity that may not come again for a long time. It’s a big gig and the money is great. More time with his family and works few months a year basically. He’s gotta take it.

 

[dwreck27]

Well Witten enjoy retirement and take cues from Romo

Stay away from Aikmens pointers he’ll give out

 

[Praxit]

...do it, if you know that ring will not come in 18' ..

 

[exciter]

But but some people think he should be the te coach at 200k a year!

 

[panchucko]

Take it Jason

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Word was another offer floating out there. Not sure if it is true or who it is from.

Also Read or seen that Romo and Aikman told Jason that these jobs are not always there. That he should take them when he can because if he waits and plays another year they might not be available at that time. Which makes sense.
They hire someone else now, they will probably roll with them.

 

[Nightman]

I bet he starts at 5m per.....that is the floor for the next 20 years

You really are a moron. He won't come near the money as an announcer that he makes on the field.

Report: ESPN offering Jason Witten $4-4.5 million per year

Who is the moran now chachi?????

@Fla Cowpoke

 

[NorthTexan95]

Witten is not the guy I would first think of as being a good color commentator. I'm surprised he would be offered the job but congrats to him!

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Witten is not the guy I would first think of as being a good color commentator. I'm surprised he would be offered the job but congrats to him!

Based on what you know about being a GOOD color commentator, why not?

 

[Carson]

He gone

 

[big dog cowboy]

As much as I hate to say this, it's time Jason.

 

[SoupcanSam]

I am sorry but risking it for one more year with the cowboys ain't worth it. Say Dallas has a **** season or are bounced out of the playoffs, and this opportunity never comes around again......now you are left out in the desert with your junk in your hand and not a single pot to piss in.

Mean while the cowboys band will play on and you are stuck with one of the worse woulda coulda shoulda stories for the grand kids down the road.

Aint life grand!

 

[cowboy_ron]

There's nothing to think about....a longterm after football career making 3X what he was going to make this year? What is there to think about?

 

[DallasDomination]

ESPN helping the Cowboys. Thanks a lot!

Maybe now we can have a weapon at the position.

 

[Doomsday101]

There's nothing to think about....a longterm after football career making 3X what he was going to make this year? What is there to think about?

Ultimately it is Witten call. I support whatever he ends up doing. I think it is always easy for someone looking outside in to says what they would do, but for a lot of these guys nothing will ever replace what they get out of the game. Witten has played the game 15 years in Dallas missing 1 game in all that time there is clearly a love and passion he has for the game. He has played the game since being a kid and I have yet to hear anyone who played the game not wish they could still be out there. Having thousands of people cheering you, the adrenalin rush you get can’t be replaced.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

I think the offers will be there whether he decides now or two years from now. If they like him that much now, I don't see much changing couple years from now. They will simply fire who they have to when he decides like CBS did for Romo.

 

[JJHLH1]

It’s a great opportunity for Witten. I’m happy for him.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Lets see hmm.....
4.5 million a year with no more wear and tear on the old body.
Or....
Catching more 4 yard passes on 3rd and 6 and being tackled immediately by a guy you outweigh by 50lbs.
Tough call.......

 

[iceberg]

He's done.......
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...offering-jason-witten-4-4-5-million-per-year/


Report: ESPN offering Jason Witten $4-4.5 million per year
Posted by Mike Florio on April 30, 2018, 1:08 PM EDT

Getty Images
If Cowboys tight end Jason Witten plays football this year, he’ll earn a base salary of $1.05 million and up to $750,000 in per-game roster bonuses. If he accepts the pending offer from ESPN, he’ll make a lot more than that.

David Moore of the Dallas Morning News reports that the pending Monday Night Football offer to Witten would pay $4-4.5 million per year.

If Witten ultimately decides to keep playing for less than half the amount he’d make by not playing, the potential alternatives could include Kurt Warner, Rex Ryan, Matt Hasselbeck, Booger McFarland, and Louis Riddick. According to the Washington Post, each of those four candidates has been considered for the job.

Whoever gets the gig will be paired with Joe Tessitore, the new play-by-play announcer. ESPN has been working for months to find a replacement for Jon Gruden, who left after nine years to become coach of the Raiders.

he's got nothing to prove and the cowboys are starting over. i'd take the new job and start the next phase of my life.