Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones lashes out at radio hosts: ‘Get your damn act together’

Jori Epstein | USA TODAY

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is losing patience.

For his underperforming 6-7 team, for his contract-expiring coach and on Friday morning, for the hosts of his twice-weekly radio appearance.

Jones called the hosts to task when they asked early in the interview if the organization was embarrassed following a 31-24 loss to the Bears that wasn’t nearly as competitive as the score suggests.

“Hey, get your damn act together yourself,” Jones said Friday morning on 105.3 The Fan. “We’re going to have a good visit this morning but settle down just a little bit. We have a lot to go over, go on with your questions, but I’m going to give you the answers I want to give you this morning and I don’t like your attitude to come in.

“I’ve been traveling all night and I don’t have the patience to jack with you today.”

Jones’ interview didn’t settle down.

The Cowboys have now lost seven of their last 10 games but still lead the weak NFC East. Mistakes abound from an offense that struggled repeatedly on third down, to a defense that missed tackle after tackle, to a kicker who has now missed 10 field goals this season — more than any kicker in the NFL the last four years. Jones, also the team’s general manager, said he’s responsible.

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“A GM gets his GM anger,” he said. “But you’re great, guys. Give your anger. … When you have as many things that were off kilter as we had last night, you have a nice litany of many places to start to correct.”

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Jones snapped when the hosts asked him to explain why kicker Brett Maher still has his job after a 10th missed field goal, an out-of-bounds kickoff and a failed onside kick in Chicago. Maher also missed both field goals in a 26-15 Thanksgiving loss to the Bills.

“I’m giving you my answer,” Jones said, before eventually saying there aren’t more able available kickers. “You go ahead and ask your questions, and I’ll give you my answers this morning.”

At one point, Jones told the hosts “there’s a whole bunch of times when I have to bull[expletive] the hell out of you” and then asked “Do you understand bull[expletive]?” Program director Gavin Spittle explained why the call cut off.

“We have a delay system in the radio station, and when certain words are used, we hit the dump button and it cuts down,” Spittle said on air. “If you hit it twice in the row, which I had to do because of the two swears, that automatically cuts everything off with the radio station minus the hosts.”

Jones called back without another violation.

In the second portion of the interview, Jones said the blame extends beyond head coach Jason Garrett, whom he confirmed last night will still coach next week against the Rams. Garrett’s 10-year tenure is longer than all but five coaches in the league — all of whom have won Super Bowls. But in Chicago, Jones said, the players didn’t perform to their standards. The Cowboy gave long-term extensions this offseason to players including defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence and linebacker Jaylon Smith. Their defense has allowed rushing touchdowns to three quarterbacks - Detroit's Jeff Driskel, Buffalo’s Josh Allen and Chicago’s Mitch Trubisky - in a span of 19 days.

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“As you know in the NFL, you may not, but I’ll inform you: About 10 percent of your players get two thirds of the money,” Jones said. “Ten percent of your players get two thirds of the dollars. If you’ve got that contracted into long-term contracts, then you have some real challenges.”

Jones dismissed the notion that a midseason firing of Garrett would turn around an unraveling team. He said: “You’ve got to remember: When you quit on your coach, you quit on yourself, because we’re all a part of this."

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“The one that deserves the most responsibility is the one who ultimately makes the decision to put what players out there and what coach out there. That’s the general manager. In this case that happens to be the same man that owns the team. I completely understand the fans’ frustration with me.”

Jones said that after this Cowboys-Bears loss that “we all feel like hell” and he imagines people around Dallas can hear him screaming into his pillow. When radio hosts wished him luck fixing it, Jones laughed with mirth for more than 4 seconds.

“Then I’ll move on to the country’s problems,” he said. “No seriously, man. That’s fair. That’s very fair. Jerry, do something, go fix it, do something different, even if it's wrong. Go fix it.

“I get it.”

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