Jerry Jones just can’t help himself.
His $11billion valued Dallas Cowboys suffered a humiliating 34-10 loss to the Houston Texans on Monday night, deepening their largely self-inflicted hole as they slipped to 3-7 for the season.
The AT&T Stadium’s roof falling to pieces earlier in the day was symbolic of Jones’ crumbling empire, and now the out of touch billionaire has managed to enrage his weary fan base even further.
Per The Athletic’s Jon Machota, Jones spoke to 105.3 The Fan earlier today where he was asked about empty seats and a large amount of Texans and Cowboys fans with bags over their heads.
“I’ve seen it with most teams,” Jones responded.
“I think that certainly our fans are avid. I’m disappointed that we’re bringing the team that we are to the field. We got to improve on that. That’s not acceptable.
“(Over the last 25 years), we’ve been the sixth-winningest team in the NFL. In the last 15 years, we’re the fifth-winningest team in the NFL. We haven’t been to the championship playoff game. We haven’t been to a Super Bowl, but we’ve been (hanging) around that rim. And we’ve been up there with the best of them.
“… Rest assured we’ll be figuring out ways to look for what we’re doing wrong and improve on that. … The bottom line is that we’ve got to get better. We will get better. There are better days ahead.”
Jones’ words were filled with hope and optimism, which is more than can be said for Cowboys fans.
“We have not SNIFFED a conference championship game in nearly 30 years. To say we are ‘hanging around the rim’ of making a Super Bowl is asinine,” one fan replied.
“No one cares about hanging around the rim. It’s championship or bust with this franchise because that’s what you set the standard to be. So don’t start lowering it now because you have been by far the worst GM in the league!” another added.
“The problem is Jerry, always has been Jerry and always will be Jerry,” a third posted.
Jones’ comments found their way to Stephen A. Smith, a man who famously loves to revel in the Cowboys’ misery.
“I woke up this morning and I was feeling very, very sad. The Cowboys are pathetic,” Smith said.
“29 years, and you’re saying, ‘We’ve been around the rim?’ First of all, around the rim is basketball!”.
Smith also says he’s genuinely worried about the 82-year-old Jones and his position as Cowboys general manager, going as far as to compare him to incumbent president Joe Biden.
“I’m not joking when I say this, I’m getting very, very worried about Jerry Jones because the only thing that’s worse than the team’s play are his press conferences or whatever you want to call it when he’s in front of the reporters where he says one thing after another after another after another,” Smith said on First Take.
“I find myself thinking about Joe Biden before he backed out of running for re-election. I think Jerry’s actually one month older than president Joe Biden for crying out loud.
“I remember when I was on the airwaves literally, guys, nine to ten months ago and I was like, ‘he can’t be the nominee, he’s not going to make it to the Democratic National Convention, y’all got to change, you have to do something to change,’” he added.
“And I’m looking at Jerry and I find myself asking where the f*** is Stephen Jones?
“Where the f*** are his family members? I know he’s the owner and the president and the GM and I get all that, but somebody in the circle has to be able to stop you from just adding fuel to the fire because it is so bad right now they literally took the fun out of it.”
Head coach Mike McCarthy, in the final year of his contract, is seemingly a dead-man walking amid the Cowboys’ abysmal start to the season.
Starting quarterback Dak Prescott missed the all-Texas showdown against Houston, but even that’s no excuse for a coach unable to stop the painful decay of a once successful franchise.
Despite every conceivable sign telling Jones to sack McCarthy, the man with all the power in Arlington is insistent upon sticking with his man until at least the end of the season.
“I have made a change early on a coach with Chan Gailey, and I’ve always regretted that, and I’ve made a change during the season [with Wade Phillips] and regretted that, and that’s the music I’m listening to,” Jones said.
For the first time since 1989, the Cowboys have lost their first five home games of a season.
Per ESPN, they have been outscored by 118 points, the third-highest total through five home games in the Super Bowl era.
It’s about as bad as it’s ever been in Dallas, but Jones seems to think he’s seen worse.
“We won one game my first year,” Jones said.
“One. And so have we had rough seasons? Yes. Yeah, I’ve been around. Certainly we have. And we’ve had other tough years. And this one, we didn’t anticipate the record. And the way we’re playing right now, we wouldn’t have anticipated that.
“But, not, this isn’t — y’all have heard me tell these old stories until you’re sick — but not, you stay in this league long enough, you’ll have times like this.”
McCarthy also has no intention of looking at some of the younger guys on the roster, despite his veterans continuing to struggle.
“Nah, this is it, man,” he said.
“We got seven losses. We’ve got to go. Backs against the wall. We got to fight, scratch, claw. We’ve got to do everything we can to go win the next game. That’s where my mind’s at. That’s what l’m going to coach and that’s the expectation. We’ve got to win. We deserve to win. You know, we deserve the opportunity to win. And that’s about putting the best people out there.”
Jones echoed those sentiments, revealing his team intends to stay the course with Cooper Rush under center in the absence of Prescott because the team wants to stick with “experience”.
“I would look for us to stay with the experience,” Jones said. “We have thought it was just too important… because we need to win to that degree and give ourselves every chance we can.”
None of these comments will give Cowboys fans much confidence.
The team is going nowhere fast — even regressing — under Jones’ watch, and he appears unwilling to relinquish any kind of control.
The Cowboys face Jayden Daniels and the high-flying Washington Commanders next week, meaning things will likely get a whole lot worse before they get better.
