DALLAS Cowboys owner Jerry Jones went on a fiery tirade on the radio after the team’s disastrous loss to the Detroit Lions.
The longtime NFL owner, 82, scolded radio hosts during his regular weekly interview in Dallas on Tuesday.
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Jones appeared on Shan & Ray on Audacy’s 105.3 The Fan two days after the Cowboys’ 47-9 home defeat to the Lions.
During the interview, he snapped after being asked a question regarding the team’s lack of offseason additions to the roster.
“This is not your job. Your job isn’t to let me go over all the reasons that I did something and I’m sorry that I did it. That’s not your job. I’ll get somebody else to ask these questions. I’m not kidding,” Jones said to the show’s hosts Shan Sharrif, R.J. Choppy and Bobby Belt.
“You’re not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong.
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“If you are, or any five or 10 like you, you need to come to this [NFL] meeting I’m going to today with 32 teams here, you’re geniuses.”
“You really think you’re gonna sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I’ve done wrong without going over the rights?”
Jones did send a message to America’s Team’s fans, saying he’s “very sorry for what happened” in Sunday’s game.
The Cowboys didn’t make significant upgrades after Jones said in the offseason that the team was “all in” on 2024.
He did bring up Tuesday that the Cowboys extensions to Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb did meet the definition of going “all in.”
Jones also called out the criticisms of the team’s offseason, saying that he heard the same noise when he bought the Cowboys in 1989 for $140 million.
“One of the stupidest things I’ve ever done, that anybody had ever analyzed was buy the Cowboys. It was an idiot that did that,” Jones said on the radio show.
“So idiot things can turn into good decisions. Smart things can turn into bad decisions.
“The facts are that when you make one, you don’t really know if it’s going to be good or not at the time. So let’s go ahead, I’m trying to answer your questions, man.
“You want some conversation this morning, you’re getting it.”
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Jones also didn’t let a question get finished about a potential head coaching change with Mike McCarthy.
He revealed his regret about letting go of Wade Phillips in favor of Jason Garrett during the 2010 campaign.
“And I won’t be making any others during the season,” he said.
The Cowboys were 1-7 at the time of Phillips’ dissmissal and Phillips went on to win a Super Bowl as the Denver Broncos’ defensive coordinator.
Jones said he has no plans to fire McCarthy during the season, saying he’ll never make another in-season coaching move.
The Cowboys have yet to win a home this year and will not play in Week 7 due to the bye.
The owner and general manager Jones has plenty of time to analyze the Cowboys as they will take on the San Francisco 49ers in Week 8.
