Dallas —As far as meltdowns go, the one Jerry Jones had on Tuesday morning was uncommonly heated.
The Cowboys’ owner and general manager has had countless spirited exchanges with media members over the years but during his weekly radio appearance on 105.3 The Fan, Jones took matters to uncharted territory when he publicly threatened to take the jobs of the radio hosts conducting the interview.
Jones took offense to questions about the roster construction of his 3-3 Cowboys.
"Listen, let me tell you what I'll do about it, I will let us sit down and look at the decisions we've made over the last several years. OK? I'll look at it," Jones said Tuesday on the Dallas-based radio show. "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.”
"That's not your job or I'll get somebody else to ask these questions, men. No, no. I'm not kidding."
Jones comments came on the heels of a one-sided 47-9 Dallas loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday. It’s the worst home loss The Cowboys have suffered since Jones bought the team in 1989.
Apparently, Jones was still upset from the Tuesday morning interview. Later in the day, Jones doubled down on the words he shared over the radio airwaves. In an interview with The Athletic, Jones said he was being wrongly "grilled by the tribunal."
"I don’t know that I would go as far as (calling) the volume connotation as yelling. OK? But the facts are that if I’m going to be grilled by the tribunal, I don’t need it to be by the guys I’m paying," Jones told Dianna Russini of The Athletic. "I can take it from fans and take it from other people. I take a lot of pride in how fair and how much I try to work with the media, we’re brothers and sisters. But I was a little frustrated there today. The wrong ones were doing the questioning. Now, if those had been real fans sitting there or if there had been people that knew what they were talking about, football people, I might have had a different answer."
The Cowboys are currently on a bye-week, giving the team time to clean up some mistakes before their next game (against the 49ers) and their owner some time to cool down before his next radio appearance.
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