{"id":14164,"date":"2015-02-11T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2015-02-11T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:25:27","slug":"demarco-murray-says-focus-is-on-super-bowl-as-he-heads-towards-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/02\/11\/demarco-murray-says-focus-is-on-super-bowl-as-he-heads-towards-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMarco Murray says focus is on Super Bowl as he heads towards free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_13289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13289\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/demarcomurray.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/demarcomurray.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/demarcomurray-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDeMarco Murray set a Cowboys team record for rushing yards during the 2014 season while leading the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Set to be a free agent, Murray the Cowboys have publicly maintained a desire to work out a new contract but given that wide receiver Dez Bryant is also in need of a new deal nothing is certain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about the yards for me,\u201d Murray said on Tuesday at a dinner at Boardwalk Ferrari, via the Star Telegram.\u3000\u201cIt\u2019s about winning a Super Bowl. If this place gives me the best chance I\u2019m going to stay here. Winning a Super Bowl means more than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys have exclusive negotiating rights with Murray until March 7 and he cannot sign elsewhere until March 10.<\/p>\n<p>Murray continues to say nice things about the team who drafted him in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not at all. It\u2019s just not (stressful),\u201d Murray said. \u201cI feel like whatever the case may be, if I\u2019m here, think it going be great situation, If it\u2019s going to be somewhere else it\u2019s going to be a great situation Obviously I think they want me here. I want to be here. It\u2019s just finding the \u2026 I think, the, you know \u2026 just what helps them, what helps me. Things like that. I think both sides want to be here, so I think we\u2019ll see where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are my guys,\u201d Murray said. \u201cLike I said, I made it clear to everyone if I\u2019m not here next year, Romo will be my guy, (Jason Witten) will be my guy, (Dez Bryant) will be my guy. Jason will always be a great (friend). The Joneses will always be great friends. Just great people in my life. There\u2019s no hard feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeMarco Murray set a Cowboys team record for rushing yards during the 2014 season while leading the NFL. Set to be a free agent, Murray the Cowboys have publicly maintained a desire to work out a new contract but given that wide receiver Dez Bryant is also in need of a new deal nothing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,115,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-demarco-murray","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14165,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions\/14165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}