INDIANAPOLIS -- Jason Witten is returning to play his 16th season with the Dallas Cowboys, but owner and general manager Jerry Jones said the tight end can be viewed as a coach-in-waiting.
"Well, I think you can ... and, by the way, that's always been there and it's always, his style has been there," Jones said on ESPN's NFL Live on Friday. "He is John Wayne. And he is John Wayne in our dressing room. He's John Wayne in the one-on-one drills in the end zone in the dark, rough days of two-a-days. So he's the real deal.