July 29, 2024 • 13 mins
Ever wondered why the Dallas Cowboys are the only NFL team to keep the same GM every season (Jerry Jones) without change? Same. Hear Jerry Jones response when asked that pointed question at the Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, CA.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're back.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's the Craigway Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster and
voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Keeping updated on the Olympics. The US women's team up
comfortably up twenty two seventy nine to fifty seven at
the into the third quarter on Japan.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
If you didn't want to the Olympic things, if you
didn't hear it earlier.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Luke Hobson, the rising senior for the University of Texas,
won a bronze medal today at the two hundred meter
freestyle final. It's the second bronze medal earned by Texas
men's swimming in the first three days of competition at
the Paris Games. Former long warning Carson Foster got bronze
(00:56):
in the four hundred am on Sunday, and Hobson was
definitely disappointed. He lost by seven hundreds of a second
that was the difference between first place and third place,
and had the lead about fifty meters to go, but
wound up settling for the bronze h forty four point
seventy nine to finish. David Bobovici of Romania got the gold.
(01:19):
Great Britain's Matthew Richards took the silver, and again he
was just seven one hundreds of a second off that
that's the difference sometimes between if it had been another
what one hundred second or two, he wouldn't even have medled, correct,
it was that close. So anyway, congratulates nevertheless on coming
(01:42):
up with a bronze medal at the Olympics for lu Compson. Okay,
cowboys are back at training camp, continuing their work.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Bad news over the weekend obviously, and.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Sam Williams got lost, right, he had defensive end from
Lsu tore his achilles. And that's tough for Dallas because
Dante Fowler and Doris Armstrong two edges signed with Washington.
Armstrong played almost half of the Cowboys defensive snaps.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Valor up there as well.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And so now looking at the end position for the Cowboys,
you have Michael Parsons, who is basically going to be
a linebacker under Simmers defense, then the Marcus Lawrence. But
now your second or your third and fourth most used
defensive ends are gone from free agency. And then your
fifth most use Sam Fowler, who is expected to have
or Sam Williams it'speed to have a huge breakout season.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He's gone.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So now Dallas is really thin at the edge spot,
gonna have to rely a lot on Marshawn Neeland, the
second round draft pick Fojoco, a third round draft pick
from last season. So tough, tough news for defense for
the Cowboys, and not with Mike Simmers. So Mike Simmer
wants they're gonna have to add some some vet and
(02:55):
free agency the beef up that edge.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Spot, but not the good news Alix stands you're hoping for.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Meanwhile, Jerry Jones continues to deal with the questions.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Of his activity and inactivity.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Now, which was the one I don't want to I
don't want you to play the one that lasted eight
minutes because we'll be here all day.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Okay, you don't want to hear Jerry talk for eight minutes.
I think our listeners would would uh would love that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh, I'm sure there is that, the one about the
difficulty difficulty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, uh, but there's another one.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This was a question that Tim Callishaw asked him, and
Tim uh outstanding writer for so many years with the
Dallas Morning News, and I read this piece Saturday morning,
and uh, you know, Tim pointed out what we pointed
out from that introductory presser when Jerry used the word ambiguity,
(03:49):
you canada how many times?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
What was it? I had six?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That isn't that answer though, in that one answer he
said it at least one more time.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So so you used that word ambiguity a lot, and
it was like a headline in the morning news the
next day, and it was a buzzword.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Folks were talking about that.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And in his column, Tim Callishaw echoed that as well,
talked about the ambiguity thing. But he also made a
point to ask Jerry Jones, and this is going to
be Jerry's response to it, why is it in the
National Football League, which houses thirty two teams, do thirty
(04:27):
one teams have owners who are not the GM and
speak on behalf of themselves as the owner in GM?
And why it is that they have the same GM
every year? Who happens to be owner? And this was
Jerry's answer.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I think the Cowboys have had two general managers Tech
Sham and maybe two in the history. You look around
the NFL and I bet I don't know. I really
haven't studied, but I bet you they've had thirty They've
had as many general managers, maybe sometimes as they've had
(05:06):
coaches since the reality of it is, which was from
the day that we walked through the door, that I
knew that I was going to have to be responsible
for any and everything that went on. So that if
that is going to be the case, then I I'm
(05:31):
trying not to use somebody else's commenters this way. I'm
only comfortable doing it that way.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I can't delegate that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now, what that implies is that this thing is a
product to me sitting up there throwing darts. That's not
the case. I like to think that the reason that
I've enjoyed some success in my life is that I've
had people like Mike and Stephen in my ear hard
(06:13):
Now Stephen is my son, and my children, we all
work together.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I heard a father's prayer.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
One time that says, please don't let me be a bully,
because I can be. They will let me because they
love me. And so that I lay up waking nights
making sure that my ears are open and that I'm
not too willfully strong.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
So believe you me, I listen and I get a
lot of input.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And when this guy to my right talks to me,
you notice in a draft room who I'm sitting by
I'm sitting by Mike when he talks to me. It's
going in and it's not coming out. Now, I'm a
lot of things, but I'm not slow. So I do
listen to the people around me. Otherwise I wouldn't even
(07:13):
be sitting here. Tim, I wouldn't even be sitting here.
You can't get here and get to be a part
of this just me, and so I've had lots of input.
Jimmy Johnson gave me a lot of input. Okay, did
anybody else have to make the final decision? D decision?
(07:34):
Do you punch the button or not? Not one time
in the history that I've been involved with this team. Now,
if my butt has got my mind out someplace else
and not on this, then you have to trust me
that I know how to since I'm not on top
of the issue.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Trust it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
When Mike says we're going to do it this way,
Steven says we're going to do it this way, trust me.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And it's been that way since we've got the Dallas Cowboys,
whatever we are or whatever we're not. I think I
saw where we've the sixth or seventh, sixth winning this
team in the last fifteen years in the NFL or
something like that in the NFL, and with Mike as
our coach, we've had in my mind, we've had very
(08:22):
really good among thirty two teams about what we've done.
Does anybody think that good for me is folding it
up and not having gotten to a Super Bowl? No,
And I hope y'all know me enough to know that
if you could write a check and I had it
and it actually guaranteed me whatever it is, you got
(08:46):
your Super Bowl. I hope y'all know i'd write that check.
I'm embarrassed to tell you that I would. There's no
such thing, and you got the greatest people, greatest coaches,
greatest advice you've ever seen, and it doesn't guarantee you
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I'll pass for this.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Self talk with you to here today, but I do
and have This is not your normal GM situation. I
mean to tell you I will change on a dime.
If Steven reaches over and says, let me tell you this,
I'm going strong here, or Mike goes strong, will go strong.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Will being will McClay let me say this kind of
going in reverse order. In the first place, I don't
think Jerry Jones has to apologize to anybody for that
particular monologue being largely about him, because he was asked
(09:54):
a question about himself as the owner in general manner,
the question just happened to be, why is it that
you're the only one who is the owner and general manager?
And there he went around and around and around in
a lot of circles. Now, he did say, I listen
(10:15):
to other people. I listen to Stephen Jones, I listen
to Mike McCarthy, the head coach. I listened to Will McLay.
So he says, I have and he said we're a
family organization, and my family and so on and so forth.
But he made a point of pointing it out what
we already all know and have known since February twenty fifth,
(10:38):
nineteen eighty nine, the Saturday night Massacre news conference, when
he stepped in as the new owner of the Cowboys,
that he and he alone makes the final call. He
and he alone may not make the decision. They may
figured it out, but as he says, pushing the button,
(10:58):
that's him, and I don't. I don't think that's going
to surprise anybody. But by the same token, long suffering
Cowboy fans like yourself, Caam probably aren't satisfied with the
explanation when he says when he says, where the fifth
or sixth winningest organization the last fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Probably in numbers if you add it up, it's probably true.
But is that satisfactory to you? The fact that they
haven't even reached a conference championship game during that time,
and have not advanced a conference championship game, and what's
going on thirty years? How do you, as a Cowboy
fan fielt when you hear him say that the goal
is to win a ring? Right, It's what he says.
(11:37):
If I could write a check, which is, by the way,
something he's tried it out. Oh, if I could write
a check and make it happen, I would do it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We know, we know.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
That's the most annoying thing I think a human being
can constantly repeat, is that saying, because you know what,
he'll write a check for that, But he won't write
a check for his quarterback or his receiver. Because Jerry,
if you want to win a Super Bowl, you probably
need a quarterback and you probably need a receiver one
(12:05):
because look at the teams that have won the past
Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes, he was the quarterback for the
Kansas City Chiefs. They made sure to pay him it.
Jerry Who, Yeah, I'll write that check, Sure you will,
but you won't write it for the players you need
to keep so you can even have a chance at
winning a Super Bowl. Because we all know that if
(12:26):
Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb are not on this roster
this next season, the Cowboys have a zero percent chance
of winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I just wonder what he thinks when he looks around
and he sees what the Packers did with Jordan Love,
what the Dolphins did with two a tongue of Iiloa.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's not great because right after the two assigning happened,
the Packers went in ahead and made Jordan Love that
fifty five million dollars deal per season, which ties him
with Joe Burrow and who's the other quarterback? And they
get the Trevor Lawrence at fifty five and TWOA got
fifty five fifty three point one million dollars. The fact
that nothing's happened since then tells you the Cowboys probably
(13:06):
aren't willing to pay Dak fifty five million dollars they
want to pay him underneath that margin, and it's obvious
Dak wants to get paid that fifty five. So I mean,
I played some of the sound from last week and
even even what we've heard from Dak and Jerry this
week after the Jordan Love and two his signing just
tell me that the Cowboys aren't close to getting a
deal done with Dak Prescott, and it sounds like it.
(13:28):
The likelihood of him being on a different team this
next season is hire and higher every single day, and
that's scary for a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
All right, we'll have some baseball notes for you coming
up next when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone in the ir Radio app.
We're back.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's the Craigway Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster and
voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Keeping updated on the Olympics. The US women's team up
comfortably up twenty two seventy nine to fifty seven at
the into the third quarter on Japan.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
If you didn't want to the Olympic things, if you
didn't hear it earlier.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Luke Hobson, the rising senior for the University of Texas,
won a bronze medal today at the two hundred meter
freestyle final. It's the second bronze medal earned by Texas
men's swimming in the first three days of competition at
the Paris Games. Former long warning Carson Foster got bronze
(00:56):
in the four hundred am on Sunday, and Hobson was
definitely disappointed. He lost by seven hundreds of a second
that was the difference between first place and third place,
and had the lead about fifty meters to go, but
wound up settling for the bronze h forty four point
seventy nine to finish. David Bobovici of Romania got the gold.
(01:19):
Great Britain's Matthew Richards took the silver, and again he
was just seven one hundreds of a second off that
that's the difference sometimes between if it had been another
what one hundred second or two, he wouldn't even have medled, correct,
it was that close. So anyway, congratulates nevertheless on coming
(01:42):
up with a bronze medal at the Olympics for lu Compson. Okay,
cowboys are back at training camp, continuing their work.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Bad news over the weekend obviously, and.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Sam Williams got lost, right, he had defensive end from
Lsu tore his achilles. And that's tough for Dallas because
Dante Fowler and Doris Armstrong two edges signed with Washington.
Armstrong played almost half of the Cowboys defensive snaps.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Valor up there as well.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And so now looking at the end position for the Cowboys,
you have Michael Parsons, who is basically going to be
a linebacker under Simmers defense, then the Marcus Lawrence. But
now your second or your third and fourth most used
defensive ends are gone from free agency. And then your
fifth most use Sam Fowler, who is expected to have
or Sam Williams it'speed to have a huge breakout season.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He's gone.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So now Dallas is really thin at the edge spot,
gonna have to rely a lot on Marshawn Neeland, the
second round draft pick Fojoco, a third round draft pick
from last season. So tough, tough news for defense for
the Cowboys, and not with Mike Simmers. So Mike Simmer
wants they're gonna have to add some some vet and
(02:55):
free agency the beef up that edge.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Spot, but not the good news Alix stands you're hoping for.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Meanwhile, Jerry Jones continues to deal with the questions.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Of his activity and inactivity.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Now, which was the one I don't want to I
don't want you to play the one that lasted eight
minutes because we'll be here all day.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Okay, you don't want to hear Jerry talk for eight minutes.
I think our listeners would would uh would love that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh, I'm sure there is that, the one about the
difficulty difficulty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, uh, but there's another one.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This was a question that Tim Callishaw asked him, and
Tim uh outstanding writer for so many years with the
Dallas Morning News, and I read this piece Saturday morning,
and uh, you know, Tim pointed out what we pointed
out from that introductory presser when Jerry used the word ambiguity,
(03:49):
you canada how many times?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
What was it? I had six?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That isn't that answer though, in that one answer he
said it at least one more time.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So so you used that word ambiguity a lot, and
it was like a headline in the morning news the
next day, and it was a buzzword.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Folks were talking about that.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And in his column, Tim Callishaw echoed that as well,
talked about the ambiguity thing. But he also made a
point to ask Jerry Jones, and this is going to
be Jerry's response to it, why is it in the
National Football League, which houses thirty two teams, do thirty
(04:27):
one teams have owners who are not the GM and
speak on behalf of themselves as the owner in GM?
And why it is that they have the same GM
every year? Who happens to be owner? And this was
Jerry's answer.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I think the Cowboys have had two general managers Tech
Sham and maybe two in the history. You look around
the NFL and I bet I don't know. I really
haven't studied, but I bet you they've had thirty They've
had as many general managers, maybe sometimes as they've had
(05:06):
coaches since the reality of it is, which was from
the day that we walked through the door, that I
knew that I was going to have to be responsible
for any and everything that went on. So that if
that is going to be the case, then I I'm
(05:31):
trying not to use somebody else's commenters this way. I'm
only comfortable doing it that way.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I can't delegate that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now, what that implies is that this thing is a
product to me sitting up there throwing darts. That's not
the case. I like to think that the reason that
I've enjoyed some success in my life is that I've
had people like Mike and Stephen in my ear hard
(06:13):
Now Stephen is my son, and my children, we all
work together.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I heard a father's prayer.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
One time that says, please don't let me be a bully,
because I can be. They will let me because they
love me. And so that I lay up waking nights
making sure that my ears are open and that I'm
not too willfully strong.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
So believe you me, I listen and I get a
lot of input.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And when this guy to my right talks to me,
you notice in a draft room who I'm sitting by
I'm sitting by Mike when he talks to me. It's
going in and it's not coming out. Now, I'm a
lot of things, but I'm not slow. So I do
listen to the people around me. Otherwise I wouldn't even
(07:13):
be sitting here. Tim, I wouldn't even be sitting here.
You can't get here and get to be a part
of this just me, and so I've had lots of input.
Jimmy Johnson gave me a lot of input. Okay, did
anybody else have to make the final decision? D decision?
(07:34):
Do you punch the button or not? Not one time
in the history that I've been involved with this team. Now,
if my butt has got my mind out someplace else
and not on this, then you have to trust me
that I know how to since I'm not on top
of the issue.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Trust it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
When Mike says we're going to do it this way,
Steven says we're going to do it this way, trust me.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And it's been that way since we've got the Dallas Cowboys,
whatever we are or whatever we're not. I think I
saw where we've the sixth or seventh, sixth winning this
team in the last fifteen years in the NFL or
something like that in the NFL, and with Mike as
our coach, we've had in my mind, we've had very
(08:22):
really good among thirty two teams about what we've done.
Does anybody think that good for me is folding it
up and not having gotten to a Super Bowl? No,
And I hope y'all know me enough to know that
if you could write a check and I had it
and it actually guaranteed me whatever it is, you got
(08:46):
your Super Bowl. I hope y'all know i'd write that check.
I'm embarrassed to tell you that I would. There's no
such thing, and you got the greatest people, greatest coaches,
greatest advice you've ever seen, and it doesn't guarantee you
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I'll pass for this.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Self talk with you to here today, but I do
and have This is not your normal GM situation. I
mean to tell you I will change on a dime.
If Steven reaches over and says, let me tell you this,
I'm going strong here, or Mike goes strong, will go strong.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Will being will McClay let me say this kind of
going in reverse order. In the first place, I don't
think Jerry Jones has to apologize to anybody for that
particular monologue being largely about him, because he was asked
(09:54):
a question about himself as the owner in general manner,
the question just happened to be, why is it that
you're the only one who is the owner and general manager?
And there he went around and around and around in
a lot of circles. Now, he did say, I listen
(10:15):
to other people. I listen to Stephen Jones, I listen
to Mike McCarthy, the head coach. I listened to Will McLay.
So he says, I have and he said we're a
family organization, and my family and so on and so forth.
But he made a point of pointing it out what
we already all know and have known since February twenty fifth,
(10:38):
nineteen eighty nine, the Saturday night Massacre news conference, when
he stepped in as the new owner of the Cowboys,
that he and he alone makes the final call. He
and he alone may not make the decision. They may
figured it out, but as he says, pushing the button,
(10:58):
that's him, and I don't. I don't think that's going
to surprise anybody. But by the same token, long suffering
Cowboy fans like yourself, Caam probably aren't satisfied with the
explanation when he says when he says, where the fifth
or sixth winningest organization the last fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Probably in numbers if you add it up, it's probably true.
But is that satisfactory to you? The fact that they
haven't even reached a conference championship game during that time,
and have not advanced a conference championship game, and what's
going on thirty years? How do you, as a Cowboy
fan fielt when you hear him say that the goal
is to win a ring? Right, It's what he says.
(11:37):
If I could write a check, which is, by the way,
something he's tried it out. Oh, if I could write
a check and make it happen, I would do it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We know, we know.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
That's the most annoying thing I think a human being
can constantly repeat, is that saying, because you know what,
he'll write a check for that, But he won't write
a check for his quarterback or his receiver. Because Jerry,
if you want to win a Super Bowl, you probably
need a quarterback and you probably need a receiver one
(12:05):
because look at the teams that have won the past
Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes, he was the quarterback for the
Kansas City Chiefs. They made sure to pay him it.
Jerry Who, Yeah, I'll write that check, Sure you will,
but you won't write it for the players you need
to keep so you can even have a chance at
winning a Super Bowl. Because we all know that if
(12:26):
Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb are not on this roster
this next season, the Cowboys have a zero percent chance
of winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I just wonder what he thinks when he looks around
and he sees what the Packers did with Jordan Love,
what the Dolphins did with two a tongue of Iiloa.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's not great because right after the two assigning happened,
the Packers went in ahead and made Jordan Love that
fifty five million dollars deal per season, which ties him
with Joe Burrow and who's the other quarterback? And they
get the Trevor Lawrence at fifty five and TWOA got
fifty five fifty three point one million dollars. The fact
that nothing's happened since then tells you the Cowboys probably
(13:06):
aren't willing to pay Dak fifty five million dollars they
want to pay him underneath that margin, and it's obvious
Dak wants to get paid that fifty five. So I mean,
I played some of the sound from last week and
even even what we've heard from Dak and Jerry this
week after the Jordan Love and two his signing just
tell me that the Cowboys aren't close to getting a
deal done with Dak Prescott, and it sounds like it.
(13:28):
The likelihood of him being on a different team this
next season is hire and higher every single day, and
that's scary for a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
All right, we'll have some baseball notes for you coming
up next when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone in the ir Radio app.
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