Jason Witten did not #StickToSports during Monday’s telecast of the Buccaneers-Steelers game. The MNF crew was discussing the NFL’s controversial “body weight” roughing-the-passer rule when the former Cowboys tight end offered this fire take…

Found the clip. Here’s Witten calling the roughing the passer rule change “left wing” pic.twitter.com/htLzeRcm79 — Conor Orr 🇦🇶 (@ConorOrr) September 25, 2018

“They’ve just gone too far with that rule. I knew they wanted to make it about the health and safety, and protecting these quarterbacks, but it just seems like we went a little bit to the left wing on that, you know?”

Is the NFL striving to protect the health of its players is a political issue, with those on the left championing the cause while those on the right want more violence? That seems to be how Witten views it.

Witten seemingly using “left wing” as a pejorative could get the new MNF analyst into trouble with ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro, who has expressed his desire for network employees to stay away from making political statements.