Jason Witten "unretiring"

[Mr. Scot]

Just saw it in an alert from NFL.com. He's reportedly agreed to terms with the Cowboys.

That means there's an opening in the Monday Night Football booth.

[trueblade]

[hepcat]

“Yes, I’d like a second helping of brain damage, thank you!”

-Jason Witten on returning to the NFL

[countryboi]

I know he seen the writing on the wall. ESPN wanted Olsen the last time and with them courting him again this year it was clear he was on the outs.

[LinvilleGorge]

He was embarrassingly bad on the microphone. Why did they put him out there? Still surprised to see him returning to football.

[TylerDurden]

Just saw it on the nfln ticker and my first thought was... "oh no, they got greg."

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Proudiddy said:

Just saw it on the nfln ticker and my first thought was... "oh no, they got greg."

Mine was the opposite. Nice, Greg is retiring. Love Greg, but I think he's done as an effective NFL player but I know Rivera would play him over the much younger and at this point more effective Ian Thomas as long as Olsen's foot was held together by that duct tape and bailing wire.

[Jimmy]

The "Jason Witten" effect...they mentioned this on NFL Network.  Since Witten is coming out of retirement and because Olsen has been in talks with different networks as an analyst....this may push Olsen to retire to take Witten's spot in the both. Hmmmmmm

[Anybodyhome]

Greg Olsen has seen his best days as a player with his recent spate of injuries.

Jason Witten will perform like an old, retired TE trying to come off the bench and it will not end well for him.

The only winner is Olsen going to the booth.

[joemac]

11 minutes ago, countryboi said:

I know he seen the writing on the wall. ESPN wanted Olsen the last time and with them courting him again this year it was clear he was on the outs.

Whats so great about Greg Olsen in the announcing booth?  Is he that amazing or something?  Why is everyone on him so hard?

[PurityControl]

Your window as a player is so small, hes set to make good $ with the panthers this year give it one more shot I say, if the foot gives out again or he can't preform to his standards then retire. 

But the Booth will always be there. 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, joemac said:

Whats so great about Greg Olsen in the announcing booth?  Is he that amazing or something?  Why is everyone on him so hard?

He's really damn good on the mic. We'll likely see plenty him at the Combine this week.

[panther252]

4 minutes ago, joemac said:

Whats so great about Greg Olsen in the announcing booth?  Is he that amazing or something?  Why is everyone on him so hard?

He did a test run during the Vikings game that got rave reviews. He's also very insightful with his tweets about the current events of the nfl and breaking down aspects of the game

[t96]

20 minutes ago, PurityControl said:

Your window as a player is so small, hes set to make good $ with the panthers this year give it one more shot I say, if the foot gives out again or he can't preform to his standards then retire. 

But the Booth will always be there. 

 

Will it though? If ESPN hires someone else that they wind up liking who is much better than Witten was, then there are no top network spots available and might not be for several years.