Jerry Jones refuses to take accountability for lack of offseason moves for Dallas Cowboys
Jerry Jones took issue with people fact-checking him on Tuesday.
Jerry Jones went off on Tuesday morning.
In case you were unaware, Jones does weekly appearances on 105.3 The Fan every Tuesday morning to recap the game that recently happened. These are often light-hearted, but when the team is in some sort of serious situation then tensions can elevate.
This was absolutely the case on Tuesday.
After noting at the beginning of things that he was headed to league meetings and joking about how it was a good time to get out of town given how Jerry’s team got lambasted by the Detroit Lions last week, the conversation began to unfold.
Soon enough, through a bit of a back and forth, Jerry had clearly had enough. Host Shan Shariff noted that fans and analysts were displeased over the offseason, to say the least, about how inactive the Cowboys were in free agency. Jerry took extreme offense to this (he never acknowledged the subject throughout the course of the interview) and went on the defense. He even threatened, and confirmed he was serious, the hosts to have them removed for the line of questioning they were offering.
Jerry Jones didn't like getting questioned about the Cowboys' offseason during his appearance on 105.3 The Fan.
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 15, 2024
"Your job isn't to let me to go over all the reasons that I did something... that's not your job. I'll get somebody else to ask these questions. I'm not kidding." pic.twitter.com/Po2LJ8f6cX
That is the clip making the rounds, but you should certainly watch the whole conversation/interview if you have time. You can do so right here.
It is/was one thing for Jerry and the Cowboys to act the way that they did over the course of the offseason, but you would think that they would feel enough conviction in their actions from a few months ago to be able to stand on them and defend them. That did not happen.
This entire conversation was a ton of deflection from Jerry beyond the clip in question. He noted several times that Dak Prescott was the highest-paid player in the NFL and that CeeDee Lamb was at the top of the wide receiver charts, obviously in an effort to highlight how they need more production from them. This can be and is true obviously, but it is again a deflection. And what’s more is that those contracts partly got as expensive as they did because the front office delayed them as long as they did. Actions meet consequences.
As you can imagine there are a lot of people on social media who got rather riled up about this. I’d offer one possible and potential idea of optimism, although we are all running out of the ability to do that. I digress.
Anyway, shout out to The Athletic’s Saad Yousuf for noting that this was all likely by design from Jerry. Saad’s point was about how the Cowboys are now, as always, the center of attention. But if I may I’d like to take it a step further.
For all of this week now and as the bye allows things to settle, Jerry is the target. Clearly. Consider that before his radio interview that Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott and the rest of the team were. I’m not saying that Jerry is acting noble by any means, but this selfish act of selflessness is enough to distract everyone.
Maybe I am still too optimistic.
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