Cowboys insider peels back the curtain on Jerry Jones’ radio blowup

By now, a lot of Dallas Cowboys fans have read about or, in fact, listened to owner Jerry Jones lashing out at a couple of radio hosts on Tuesday morning. It was, what we called, a “new low” for the Cowboys owner in a long history of having his moments.

After the worst home loss in Jones’ tenure, as the owner in Dallas, this past Sunday, there were certainly plenty of media members with pointed, direct and borderline-disrespectful questions for the man in charge. So, Jones had already faced some of these difficult questions after the game.

But then, on Tuesday, he was on the air with 105.3 The Fan and called out the hosts for questioning him about moves he did or did not make over this past offseason. It immediately became a big story, as of course, we’ve covered at length already.

Shortly after this thing blew up, FanSided’s very own Sterling Holmes had the opportunity to sit down and chat with longtime Cowboys reporter, the one and only Ed Werder. Holmes and Werder talked a few different topics, but most importantly, the polarizing situation between Jerry and these radio hosts.

Werder peeled back the curtain a bit on his history in Dallas, covering Jones and the Cowboys, and essentially said that he’s seen far worse interactions than this. In fact, he’s been part of much worse!

“As a journalist who’s covered this team since Jerry came here in 1989, I’ve had far worse engagements with Jerry Jones than that … He’s threatened to take my credentials before,” Werder said, comically.

Was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones out of line with his radio explosion?

Werder did acknowledge the fact that Werder was, indeed, a little out of line by calling for these folks’ jobs. However, maybe we shouldn’t have expected anything less from him to begin with.

“The worst part, for him, was that he basically threatened the jobs of the people who were doing their jobs,” Werder explained.

Werder went on to talk about how this is simply part of the gig, though. It comes with the territory, and not every media member understands that to its fullest extent.

“Hey, this is part of it. If you’re going to be in this field, don’t expect everybody to always be happy with your opinion or your line of questioning … sometimes, when they’re really mad, they overreact,” he said.

Jerry Jones is as unpredictable an owner as NFL owners come, and Werder knows this to be true:

“Now, I can’t tell you whether Jerry’s going to do what he can to have these guys taken off the show or he’s going to publicly apologize to them, because, those are both potential outcomes here.”

And, while Jones can be a bit unpredictable at times, Werder also knows one other major characteristic of Jones to be true, and that’s the plain fact that he wants the glory. Jones wants the credit when the Cowboys succeed. He craves it, and this doesn’t come to the surprise of very many Cowboys fans, if any at all.

“I think Jerry would gladly admit to three decades of poor performance as the general manager if you give him credit for the three Super Bowls they won … he would gladly trade 30 years of criticism if you would just acknowledge that he was the general manager that put those teams together,” Werder said.

Now, for fans who are sick of Jones and want to see the team belonging to somebody else, finally, Werder had this to say:

“He’s not going to resign. It doesn’t matter how bad it gets.”

There you have it. As if any fan would expect anything less … Jones isn’t going anywhere. So, for now, Cowboys fans are going to have to continue dealing with whatever this season is headed toward and, in all likelihood, it’ll be yet another disappointment under Jones’ reign.