DALLAS — Jerry Jones' weekly radio interview with “Shan & RJ” on 105.3 The Fan got a little spicy this time after the blowout loss to the Lions.
The Cowboys' longtime owner and general manager went as far as seeming to threaten the weekly interview spot they have with him.
"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 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. "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 or I'll get somebody else to ask these questions, men. No, no. I'm not kidding."
Watch to the full interview here (the exchange happens about 13 minutes in):
Jones told 105.3 The Fan at the beginning of the interview that he was traveling to Atlanta for the fall NFL owners meeting.
"You're not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong," Jones told the 105.3 hosts. "If you or any five or 10 like you, you need to come to this meeting I'm going to today -- the 32 teams here. You're geniuses. OK. Y'all really think you're going to sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I've done wrong and without going over the rights?"
The tone began to shift in the interview early on after Jones interjected while being asked about a coaching change from Mike McCarthy. The Cowboys were 1-7 when Jones fired Wade Phillips and hired Jason Garrett in 2010.
"There will be one Super Bowl champion. What the others do wrong? There's one Super Bowl champion," Jones said. "Now we want to be that champion, and I'm sure not throwing the towel in today because of what happened out there Sunday. But I'm not going to sit here and waste a lot of energy, a lot of time and 'Let's talk about what I should have done about the '07 or 2017.' Come on. Come on. I've got more time than that and I don't even have time on this great show for looking back at decisions."
In the hours after Jones' radio interview, the Cowboys owner got backlash online with how he handled the interview. Shannon Sharpe, co-host on ESPN's First Take, didn't hold back on his thoughts.
"I hate ... I detest ... I despise someone that will pray on the weak," Sharpe said. "And because Jerry Jones is in an advantageous situation, because he has the power in the situation, he would actually say that publicly. That message tells me a lot about a man."
Former Dallas Cowboys player Marcus Spears spoke about the interview on ESPN's Get Up.
"Defense is a mechanism when you know you're getting beat up," Spears said. "When you make a statement like that on the radio, you've acknowledged that you didn't do enough.'
Other local Cowboys media praised the radio hosts in how they held Jones' feet to the fire and pressed him with tough questions.
Dallas has a bye this week and return to action on Oct. 27 for a Sunday Night Football matchup on the road against the San Francisco 49ers.
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