Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones appeared on 105.3 The FAN on Tuesday morning to discuss the team’s embarrassing 47-9 home loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 6, but Jones appeared to grow angry when asked about the lack of offseason moves by the team.
Jones made his weekly appearance on The FAN to discuss a variety of topics regarding the franchise, but he seemingly began to take shots at hosts Shan Shariff, R.J. Choppy, and Bobby Belt after being asked about critics pointing to the Cowboys’ quiet offseason.
“Now if you think I’m interested on a damn phone call with you over the radio and sitting here and throwing all the good out with the dishwater, you’d have got to be smoking something over there this morning. I’m not. And I really don’t … and I don’t even want our listeners listening to me talk about. This is not your job. Your job isn’t to let me go over the reasons that I did something and I’m sorry that I did it. That’s not your job,” said Jones, according to ESPN.
Jones proceeded to tell the hosts that he could “get somebody else to ask these questions,” seemingly threatening their jobs before telling them that he was not joking when he made those statements, per ESPN.
The 82-year-old owner then shifted to discussing the strengths of the roster, explaining that there is “very outstanding personnel” and that the main issue is that the team is “short-handed out there on defense.”
“That’s really not an excuse in the NFL. Your depth should step up there and you should be able to — if you can — to compensate to some degree. You can’t compensate for the gap, so to speak, that we had between the way our offense played and the way we were supposed to play,” he added, as reported by ESPN.
These comments come as no surprise from Jones, as he has served as the team’s general manager for his entire career and consistently claimed that the Cowboys have one of the best rosters in the league.
Jones’ outbursts regarding his actions as the general manager are also not uncommon. He previously claimed that he “can figure out how to get it done” better than anyone else in the league.
“I’ve been there every which way from Sunday, and have I busted my ass a bunch, a bunch. And there’s nobody living that’s out cutting and shooting that can’t give you a bunch of times they busted their ass. So hell no, there’s nobody that could f—— come in here and do all the contracts … and be a GM any better than I can,” he said last month, per Sports Illustrated.
Jones may claim that he is the best general manager in the league, but the Cowboys are also in the midst of the fourth-longest conference championship drought of any team in the league at an astonishing 28 years.
Despite being one of the most well-known teams in the NFL, the Cowboys have also been one of the least successful since the turn of the century.
