Ed Werder: Cowboys' Jerry Jones 'alienated the fanbase' with inactive offseason, personnel decisions, radio rant
There is perhaps no member of the current NFL media who has spent more time around the Cowboys than Ed Werder. The longtime reporter- now with Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA- began covering the team for ESPN as far back as 1988 but has also done stints at the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Sports Illustrated over a nearly 40-year career that has kept him in a very close orbit around the Cowboys’ star.
In fact, it was Werder’s pant leg that owner Jerry Jones tugged at an Orlando hotel bar in the wee hours one March morning in 1989, offering him and one other colleague a scoop on the story of the year. Werder heard from Jones that head coach Jimmy Johnson was about to be fired hours before anyone else on the planet.
So Werder definitely has an informed take on the firestorm that Jones stirred up Tuesday when he threatened the hosts of a Dallas radio show after being asked some pointed questions regarding the current state of the franchise.
And the veteran insider, who sat down Wednesday for a one-on-one chat with Cowboys Wire (that was supposed to be about something completely unrelated to Jones’s rant; more on that later), offered his perspective on the growing frustration within the team’s fanbase, what happens now, and how all of it pales in comparison to some emotional non-football stories he’s recently gotten to share.
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