Jerry Jones took issue with being asked about the Dallas Cowboys roster and perceived lack of offseason moves during his weekly radio appearance on Tuesday morning.
Jones didn’t stop there, however, as the team owner and general manager appeared to threaten the jobs of hosts Shan Shariff and RJ Choppy during the interview on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. Jones spoke two days after the Cowboys (3-3) fell to a lopsided 47-9 setback against the Detroit Lions on his 82nd birthday.
Jones was interviewed while traveling to Atlanta for the NFL’s fall season.
The hosts’ questions about the Cowboys’ relatively quiet offseason left Jones feeling unwell.
“This is not your job. It’s not your job to make me discuss all the reasons why I did something and what I regret. That’s not your job. …I’ll let someone else ask these questions, guys. I’m not kidding.
“You don’t find out what the team is doing right or wrong. If that’s you, or a five or ten like you, you need to come to this (NFL) meeting I’m going to today with 32 teams here, you guys are geniuses.
“Do you really think you’re going to sit here with a microphone and tell me all the things I did wrong without discussing rights?”
Jerry Jones didn’t like being asked about the Cowboys’ offseason during his appearance on 105.3 The Fan.
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Jones was quick to note the Cowboys’ record-breaking deals with star quarterback Dak Prescott and wide receiver CeeDee Lamb.
“I know we have an excellent staff,” he said. “Very excellent staff. We just made our quarterback the highest-paid player in the NFL. We just topped the recipient charts. So we’ve made our bed in proportion to how we’re going to approach our most important people. We were short on defense, but everyone is short. That’s really no excuse in the NFL. Your depth should increase there and you should – if you can – be able to compensate to some extent. You can’t compensate for the gap, so to speak, that we had between the way our offense played and the way we needed to play.
“Now I’m going to give Detroit a lot of credit. They came after us and came after us and they put guys on top of every offensive lineman you had, and they came at it and applied the kind of pressure that gave Dak a lot of problems and gave our running game a lot of problems. We have to be able to deal with that.”
Jones and the Cowboys have some time to cool off after the team’s loss on Sunday. Dallas, currently in their bye week, returns to action on October 27 against the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, California.