Why did Cowboys owner Jerry Jones lash out on radio show? What did he say?

It’s nothing new for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to have his decision-making questioned. I mean, it’s been nearly 30 years since they last won a Super Bowl title or even an NFC Championship. He’s made a LOT of questionable decisions since then and he’s always quick to defend them and adamant that he should be the one calling pretty much all the shots.

On Sunday, Jones celebrated his 82nd birthday and the Cowboys gifted him their worst home-loss in Jones’ 35 years as owner of the team, a 47-9 thrashing by the Detroit Lions. They didn’t even give Jones a single touchdown on his birthday. On top of that, the Lions just plain toyed with the Cowboys in embarrassing fashion. Perhaps that has made Jones a bit more sensitive.

Jones lashes out on radio hosts

Now, all of this comes after an interesting offseason, in which the Cowboys completely ignored the running backs in the NFL Draft despite having glaring holes at the position and instead brought on former RB Ezekiel Elliott, who’s been a complete non-factor in the Cowboys’ miserable run game. At the last moment, they signed quarterback Dak Prescott and wide receiver CeeDee Lamb to the two most lucrative contracts in team history. Otherwise, they made no significant moves and in fact lost several of their best players. All this while claiming to be “all in”.

On Tuesday morning, Jones joined 105.3 The Fan, the Cowboys’ flagship station, as he usually does. As he was discussing their latest blowout loss with hosts Shan Shariff, RJ Choppy, and Bobby Belt, they reminded Jones of the fact that he fired head coach Wade Phillips in the middle of the 2010 season. For some context, there have been calls for Jones to fire current head coach Mike McCarthy after the fourth-straight humiliating home loss and Jones already got snippy with reporters for the suggestion. So when he was asked about it again, he lost some of his patience.

“I won’t be make any others during... in the season,” Jones said firmly.

The hosts continued to question whether the Cowboys’ current 3-3 record (0-3 at home) and minus-42 point differential might have something to do with the fact that Jones himself built the roster that’s gotten them there. Oh, that did NOT go over well with Jerry.

“Where are you going to go to get any players? What is your counter? What is your damn counter?” Jones asked. “I really want to know where you would go get it. Now, don’t tell me about, ‘I should’ve gotten a guy in the offseason.’ This isn’t a damn word argument just because I’m not arguing with you. I’m dealing with how we line up against San Francisco, not what I did wrong last week or last month or two months ago or two years ago.”

“If you think I’m interested in sitting here on a damn phone call with you on the damn radio and throwing all the good out with the dishwater, you have gotta be smoking something over there this morning,” Jones went on. “This is not your job. Your job isn’t to let me go over all the reasons that I did something, that I’m sorry that I did it. That’s not your job.”

“I’ll get somebody else to ask these questions,” Jones said. “I’m not kidding. I’m not kidding. You’re not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. If you are, or any five or 10 like you, you need to come to this [NFL] meeting I’m going to today. There’s 32 teams here. You’re geniuses. Y’all really think you’re going to sit here with a microphone and tell me all the things that I’ve done wrong without going over the rights?”

“Now, listen, we both know we’re talking to a lot of great fans and a lot of great listeners. And I am very sorry for what happened out there Sunday. I’m sick about what happened Sunday. … I’m talking to you, the fans that are listening, this morning,” Jones said. “And we can spend a lot of time going over zigging and zagging. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever done that anybody has ever analyzed was buy the Cowboys. It was an idiot that did that. So idiot things can turn into good decisions. OK? Smart things can turn into bad decisions. The facts are that when you make one you don’t really know whether it’s going to be good or not at the time, so let’s go ahead.”

Sure, Jerry. NO ONE could have predicted that making next to no offseason changes and waiting until the market was oversaturated to pay your stars so that you have no money left to spend elsewhere could have resulted in a terrible start to the season. That idiot move could have turned into a good move, sure. But hey, I’m no genius.