Cowboys tight end Jason Witten says he isn’t tempted by the prospect of going elsewhere to chase a Super Bowl ring.
The question posed to Witten is reasonable. Witten has played 13 seasons, all with Dallas, and is a ten time Pro Bowler. He’s also arguably established himself as Tony Romo’s preferred target. However, he’s never even been to a Super Bowl, or gotten particularly close to one. All he has to do is look to former teammate DeMarcus Ware in Denver, who will be playing in an AFC Championship game on Sunday, to see what’s possible. So would Witten consider leaving the only organization he’s known to chase a ring?
Here are his thoughts, via ESPN’s Todd Archer.
“I would just say this: I’m all in,” Witten said recently on The Ticket (1310 AM) in Dallas recently. “I’ve said that before, with this group and these guys. I haven’t even thought about the fact that this team can’t do it and this group won’t do it here for this city and this franchise. That thought hasn’t even entered my mind. I believe we can do that. I believe this group can compete and win a championship.
“But you can’t just say that. There’s a lot of work that goes into it. There are a lot of things that have to take place and a lot of time before you can even have the opportunity to do that. I think that’s what you look at in the offseason when you watch those [playoff] games and what you think about. It’s simply that, just, ‘Man, what a heck of an opportunity these guys got, and they’ve earned that to be able to play in the playoffs.’ I don’t know if you guys have ever had that feeling, but there’s nothing in the world like it, man. There really isn’t; to be able to play in that atmosphere and in those games. So you do all that work and you do all the training, heck, just for that opportunity. I believe the Dallas Cowboys, and me being a part of that, we’ll be able to have that opportunity. So I haven’t really thought much about going anywhere else.
“I’m all in here.”
The problem is the Cowboys have an aging franchise quarterback – one who may get his heir apparent as soon as April – and an owner calling the shots who hasn’t built a team that consistently wins on a yearly basis at any point recently and doesn’t seem to understand why. If Witten wants a Super Bowl, he may have no other choice than to cast his eyes elsewhere.
