The jabs continue as Ezekiel Elliott’s holdout drags on. One day, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is taking a shot at Elliott, the next Elliott’s agent is returning fire, and now team COO Stephen Jones, Jerry’s son, has responded.

“I have a lot of respect for most agents. I really do,” he told Cowboys reporters. “I think they’re trying to do their job for these players. But I do think sometimes, they don’t have the same endgame that maybe the player should and we do.”

Jones didn’t single anyone out, but it seems pretty clear that his comment was aimed at Elliott’s rep, Rocky Arceneaux. When Jerry Jones recently joked “Zeke who?” about the missing star running back after a strong preseason performance by rookie Tony Pollard, Arceneaux told ESPN it was out of line.

“I didn’t think it was funny and neither did Zeke — we actually thought it was disrespectful,” he said.

The Cowboys, meanwhile, don’t seem willing to budge on what they are willing to offer Elliott, and they’re going after his agent in the process.

“I think sometimes our players have to realize that their representatives don’t always have what’s in the best interest, getting the very most they can for the players may not be in the interest of their long-term future if they want to – and I’m totally convicted all our players do – want to win championships and keep these young players right now,” Stephen Jones said. “I don’t think the representatives, and they’re all good ones, feel like that’s their problem.”