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The Cowboys made what appears to be a “win-now” move in the draft when they selected running back Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth overall pick.

There’s a sense that the Cowboys are going all in on offense by using Elliott to repeat the success they had on the ground in 2014, something that ties into how much longer they can expect to have quarterback Tony Romo and tight end Jason Witten in the lineup. Witten said over the weekend that he likes that approach and feels the team is coming into the season with the right mindset as a result.

“I look at it as one year at a time and there’s expectations that I have and the team has for me in how they expect me to play, and I want to meet that and probably exceed that,” Witten said, via the Dallas Morning News. “Every year I start this offseason by evaluating that and how I can do better and things I can do to play at that level again for another year. So I’m excited about that, I think we’re more motivated now than we’ve ever been, and that gets you anxious about going into the season.”

Witten has accomplished plenty over the course of his time in Dallas, but a trip to the Super Bowl isn’t on the list. That makes for a pretty good motivational tool, just as the misses born of injuries and other mishaps provide cause for anxiety about what could go wrong for the Cowboys this time around.