July 25, 2024 • 10 mins
Does Jerry Jones expect to see Dak Prescott in a Cowboys uniform beyond this season? Hear his telling answer that might shed some light on what fans can expect.
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(00:05):
Welcome back to the craig Way Showand the Voice of the Longhorns. Craig
Way. Follow Craig on social mediaat Horn Voice. Continue year on sports
(00:39):
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.Thanks again to Greg Tapper Dave Campbell's Texas
Football Magazine for joint Us. Youknow, when we had tep on,
he pointed out that a couple ofweeks ago that one of the things that
they've had to you might say,excise from the magazine, get rid of
(01:07):
from the magazine is the pro Footballpreview. And he said, there's lots
of magazines that do that clearly.So the pages they devoted to the Dallas
Cowboys in the Houston Texans are nolonger in the magazine. It's about colleges
in high school. So he broughtthat up at the time. And there
is plenty of coverage obviously of theNFL teams, and that includes certainly the
(01:33):
Cowboys, where only one, onlyone of two owners in the NFL do
like a state of the team addressbefore the start of training camp, and
one of those is Jerry Jones.Now, last hour, you heard Jerry
(01:56):
use the word ambiguity six times inthis In fact, I've seen on social
media a lot of people are whatis he saying, what's going to what's
going on with that? That wasin his response to the first football related
question, because the very first questionwas about the whole paternity case and how
that got wrapped up in Texarkana,and he said it was done to their
(02:22):
satisfaction and I'm not going to getinto the particulars, but he said it's
all done and all that. Sothen somebody asked him that it was the
same guy, David Moore, whoasked him the question of You've always said
apathy was the worst thing that happenedcould have happen with a pro football team,
(02:43):
And over the past few months,what I'm hearing from Cowboy fans is
not apathy, it's frustration about it. Would you say Cam that as a
Cowboy fan that David Moore's question kindof described your feeling about the whole thing.
Yes, I think he's absolutely correct. I call myself an apathetic Dallas
Cowboys fan. And you will sayare you even at vant at this point?
(03:06):
And we can go back and forthon that, but I think that
it's a fair question. It's alsoa question that has probably been asked every
single year at this event since Man, I don't know, maybe a few
years, even after the Cowboys lastwon their Super Bowl, because this is
a franchise that Jerry Jones, andwe'll hear more from it. That's technically
(03:27):
all in, and it's been allin probably every single year that Jerry has
been an owner, and yet itjust does not feel that way. And
the roster moves this past season andyears before kind of point to just apathy,
Yeah, constant apathy. But hedid not refer to apathy. He
kept talking about ambiguity. And Idon't know if he meant it the same
(03:51):
way or just but that was hisbig word, was to kenue to say
ambiguity, And like you said,he kind of used it in three different
contexts, which raises the question aboutwhether he knows the definition of the word
or if or if he's just usingit in a creative way. It used
(04:14):
to be and our good friend DavidGarrett, who's up in Oklahoma City,
and David was the Cowboys played bya play broadcaster for three years when Brad
Sham was doing the Texas Rangers.Dave said that Jerry and I used to
hear him use this word a lottrite, and he was saying, I
know it's a little trat sound andwhen I say this, but you know,
I'm smiling when I say it,it might be a little trot.
(04:38):
And as Day pointed out, hegoes it was like he didn't know what
the word trite meant because he wouldnot use it in its correct context.
And I think the same thing ishappening here with ambiguity with regard to that,
because I think, obviously, ifwe want to get into Latin year,
andy is is two right right interms of pig Latin, So ambiguous
(05:00):
and ambiguity, you know, there'scould be has something has more than one
meaning. He was asked about theoff season and if there's a feeling of
apathy. He went on for whatlike six minutes that in that answer,
and I don't think he actually evengave an answer. So, uh,
just classic, uh classic redirection fromJerry Jay. I I keep, and
I've talked about this before, Ikeep the dictionary dot Com app on my
(05:24):
phone, so I just pulled up. I mean, I felt pretty confident
I knew what the definition of theword ambiguity was, but I pulled it
up anyway, and sure enough,it's what I thought. It was doubtfulness
or uncertainty of meaning or intention.That's definition number one. Definition number two
is an unclear, indefinite or equivocalword expression and meaning. That is what
(05:46):
he was doing. It was unclear, it was indefinite. He was equivocating,
and you didn't know where what hemeant by that. So he was
being ambiguous by using the word ambiguityover and over again in the deal.
Nevertheless, the press conference went on. Here's a couple other folks wanted to
(06:09):
know about the status with you know, his unsigned guys, certainly Ceedee Lamb,
who has not reported the camp.Michael Parsons has reported to camp,
and there's the concern about getting himdone a new deal done, as well
as four quarterback Dak Prescott, who'sin camp. And here's part of what
Jerry had to say about Dakh.I'm a show with the athletic Jerry,
(06:30):
you mentioned about Dak potentially going tothe final year of his contract, you
being all in on this year,him being all in on this season.
Has that allowed you to think howlong you guys have worked together, you
and Dak that this could be hislast scene with the Cowboys. I don't
think so. Just to be veryspecific, I do not think that this
(06:54):
will be his last year with Cowboysat all. The is there Am I
being psychotic relative to my Mira?No, No, it's pretty clear.
I think I want to say itif it hadn't been clear of how much
we appreciate what Dak Prescott has meantto this team in a positive way,
(07:18):
and the players do play better whenhe's out there. He does make his
teammates play at a higher level.There's no question about it. So I'm
right there in line with his bestwith his best fan. But believe it
or not, in my life,I've had a lot of things I wanted
(07:41):
that I couldn't get because I couldn'tafford it. Now have I learned to
live with that in eighty something years, You bet I have. And life
does go on. And sometimes whenyou get a bump like that, you
turn around and do better than youwould have had you got what you wanted,
if you'd have never known it,had you not had to go get
(08:03):
there. There's been some of mylife with the Dallas Cowboys that that's reflected
that had I gotten what I wassick about and ready to jump that I
didn't get. Had I gotten it, it wouldn't have turned out as positive
as it's turned out. So muchof this thing we do, specifically with
(08:28):
putting rosters together, when you're dealingwith availability injury, when you're dealing with
talent fluctuations, when you're dealing withthe competitiveness, so much of it creates
a level where you just got togo and see what happens. Now,
(08:48):
that's not unique. Millions of yourreaders and your fans that you communicate with,
millions of them live that every day. There's nothing new about a human
being having to live with ambiguity,nothing new about that. We're all doing
well. It's alive and well andwhat we deal with and what I'm dealing
with every day. Again, it'sa privileged to be here dealing with it.
(09:11):
Now. This is in the smallestviolent But what the point I'm trying
to make is there is nothing newabout not having these questions answered that you
reflect, and we've reflected in thisoff season. And yes, I've gone
in with not my wish list fullycompleted, and I've been a part with
(09:37):
the Cowboys and been a part ofit in the other parts of my life
ended up being the best I everdid. Okay, I think he meant
to say when I'm looking in themirror. I think he meant to say
psychic looking in the mirror, notpsychotic. I think he meant to say
psychic. He said psyched. Andhe also worked ambiguity in again. So
okay, there's something very interesting fromthat answer. We'll probably have to get
(10:01):
you later on. But I honestly, Craig, I think what it is
is they were like, hey,Jerry, what's a word that you can
work in as much as possible?And he just chose ambiguity. And I
can't even say it now. Hesaid it so many times it's messing with
my brain. It's got to bea joke, right, It's all got
to be like an inside joke.There's no reason he should use this word
seven eight times in a press conference. I have not. I don't think
(10:22):
I've used that word eight times inmy entire life. He used it eight
times in six minutes of a pressconference. Yeah, I did think what
he was saying. There have beentimes in life that I really really wanted
something didn't get it, And I'mthinking, Johnny Manziel, remember how much
he wanted to draft, and Stephentalked him out of it, and he
said he came out better for it. And it's interesting that he related that
(10:45):
to this Dak Prescott situation, whereit kind of sounds like the door is
open, perhaps for Dak Prescott tonot be a Dallas cowboy, and Jerry
Jones accepting that. Yep, indeed, all right, we'll be back and
wrap up hour number two of theprogram Mire on sports Radio WAIAM thirteen under the Zone
Welcome back to the craig Way Showand the Voice of the Longhorns. Craig
Way. Follow Craig on social mediaat Horn Voice. Continue year on sports
(00:39):
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.Thanks again to Greg Tapper Dave Campbell's Texas
Football Magazine for joint Us. Youknow, when we had tep on,
he pointed out that a couple ofweeks ago that one of the things that
they've had to you might say,excise from the magazine, get rid of
(01:07):
from the magazine is the pro Footballpreview. And he said, there's lots
of magazines that do that clearly.So the pages they devoted to the Dallas
Cowboys in the Houston Texans are nolonger in the magazine. It's about colleges
in high school. So he broughtthat up at the time. And there
is plenty of coverage obviously of theNFL teams, and that includes certainly the
(01:33):
Cowboys, where only one, onlyone of two owners in the NFL do
like a state of the team addressbefore the start of training camp, and
one of those is Jerry Jones.Now, last hour, you heard Jerry
(01:56):
use the word ambiguity six times inthis In fact, I've seen on social
media a lot of people are whatis he saying, what's going to what's
going on with that? That wasin his response to the first football related
question, because the very first questionwas about the whole paternity case and how
that got wrapped up in Texarkana,and he said it was done to their
(02:22):
satisfaction and I'm not going to getinto the particulars, but he said it's
all done and all that. Sothen somebody asked him that it was the
same guy, David Moore, whoasked him the question of You've always said
apathy was the worst thing that happenedcould have happen with a pro football team,
(02:43):
And over the past few months,what I'm hearing from Cowboy fans is
not apathy, it's frustration about it. Would you say Cam that as a
Cowboy fan that David Moore's question kindof described your feeling about the whole thing.
Yes, I think he's absolutely correct. I call myself an apathetic Dallas
Cowboys fan. And you will sayare you even at vant at this point?
(03:06):
And we can go back and forthon that, but I think that
it's a fair question. It's alsoa question that has probably been asked every
single year at this event since Man, I don't know, maybe a few
years, even after the Cowboys lastwon their Super Bowl, because this is
a franchise that Jerry Jones, andwe'll hear more from it. That's technically
(03:27):
all in, and it's been allin probably every single year that Jerry has
been an owner, and yet itjust does not feel that way. And
the roster moves this past season andyears before kind of point to just apathy,
Yeah, constant apathy. But hedid not refer to apathy. He
kept talking about ambiguity. And Idon't know if he meant it the same
(03:51):
way or just but that was hisbig word, was to kenue to say
ambiguity, And like you said,he kind of used it in three different
contexts, which raises the question aboutwhether he knows the definition of the word
or if or if he's just usingit in a creative way. It used
(04:14):
to be and our good friend DavidGarrett, who's up in Oklahoma City,
and David was the Cowboys played bya play broadcaster for three years when Brad
Sham was doing the Texas Rangers.Dave said that Jerry and I used to
hear him use this word a lottrite, and he was saying, I
know it's a little trat sound andwhen I say this, but you know,
I'm smiling when I say it,it might be a little trot.
(04:38):
And as Day pointed out, hegoes it was like he didn't know what
the word trite meant because he wouldnot use it in its correct context.
And I think the same thing ishappening here with ambiguity with regard to that,
because I think, obviously, ifwe want to get into Latin year,
andy is is two right right interms of pig Latin, So ambiguous
(05:00):
and ambiguity, you know, there'scould be has something has more than one
meaning. He was asked about theoff season and if there's a feeling of
apathy. He went on for whatlike six minutes that in that answer,
and I don't think he actually evengave an answer. So, uh,
just classic, uh classic redirection fromJerry Jay. I I keep, and
I've talked about this before, Ikeep the dictionary dot Com app on my
(05:24):
phone, so I just pulled up. I mean, I felt pretty confident
I knew what the definition of theword ambiguity was, but I pulled it
up anyway, and sure enough,it's what I thought. It was doubtfulness
or uncertainty of meaning or intention.That's definition number one. Definition number two
is an unclear, indefinite or equivocalword expression and meaning. That is what
(05:46):
he was doing. It was unclear, it was indefinite. He was equivocating,
and you didn't know where what hemeant by that. So he was
being ambiguous by using the word ambiguityover and over again in the deal.
Nevertheless, the press conference went on. Here's a couple other folks wanted to
(06:09):
know about the status with you know, his unsigned guys, certainly Ceedee Lamb,
who has not reported the camp.Michael Parsons has reported to camp,
and there's the concern about getting himdone a new deal done, as well
as four quarterback Dak Prescott, who'sin camp. And here's part of what
Jerry had to say about Dakh.I'm a show with the athletic Jerry,
(06:30):
you mentioned about Dak potentially going tothe final year of his contract, you
being all in on this year,him being all in on this season.
Has that allowed you to think howlong you guys have worked together, you
and Dak that this could be hislast scene with the Cowboys. I don't
think so. Just to be veryspecific, I do not think that this
(06:54):
will be his last year with Cowboysat all. The is there Am I
being psychotic relative to my Mira?No, No, it's pretty clear.
I think I want to say itif it hadn't been clear of how much
we appreciate what Dak Prescott has meantto this team in a positive way,
(07:18):
and the players do play better whenhe's out there. He does make his
teammates play at a higher level.There's no question about it. So I'm
right there in line with his bestwith his best fan. But believe it
or not, in my life,I've had a lot of things I wanted
(07:41):
that I couldn't get because I couldn'tafford it. Now have I learned to
live with that in eighty something years, You bet I have. And life
does go on. And sometimes whenyou get a bump like that, you
turn around and do better than youwould have had you got what you wanted,
if you'd have never known it,had you not had to go get
(08:03):
there. There's been some of mylife with the Dallas Cowboys that that's reflected
that had I gotten what I wassick about and ready to jump that I
didn't get. Had I gotten it, it wouldn't have turned out as positive
as it's turned out. So muchof this thing we do, specifically with
(08:28):
putting rosters together, when you're dealingwith availability injury, when you're dealing with
talent fluctuations, when you're dealing withthe competitiveness, so much of it creates
a level where you just got togo and see what happens. Now,
(08:48):
that's not unique. Millions of yourreaders and your fans that you communicate with,
millions of them live that every day. There's nothing new about a human
being having to live with ambiguity,nothing new about that. We're all doing
well. It's alive and well andwhat we deal with and what I'm dealing
with every day. Again, it'sa privileged to be here dealing with it.
(09:11):
Now. This is in the smallestviolent But what the point I'm trying
to make is there is nothing newabout not having these questions answered that you
reflect, and we've reflected in thisoff season. And yes, I've gone
in with not my wish list fullycompleted, and I've been a part with
(09:37):
the Cowboys and been a part ofit in the other parts of my life
ended up being the best I everdid. Okay, I think he meant
to say when I'm looking in themirror. I think he meant to say
psychic looking in the mirror, notpsychotic. I think he meant to say
psychic. He said psyched. Andhe also worked ambiguity in again. So
okay, there's something very interesting fromthat answer. We'll probably have to get
(10:01):
you later on. But I honestly, Craig, I think what it is
is they were like, hey,Jerry, what's a word that you can
work in as much as possible?And he just chose ambiguity. And I
can't even say it now. Hesaid it so many times it's messing with
my brain. It's got to bea joke, right, It's all got
to be like an inside joke.There's no reason he should use this word
seven eight times in a press conference. I have not. I don't think
(10:22):
I've used that word eight times inmy entire life. He used it eight
times in six minutes of a pressconference. Yeah, I did think what
he was saying. There have beentimes in life that I really really wanted
something didn't get it, And I'mthinking, Johnny Manziel, remember how much
he wanted to draft, and Stephentalked him out of it, and he
said he came out better for it. And it's interesting that he related that
(10:45):
to this Dak Prescott situation, whereit kind of sounds like the door is
open, perhaps for Dak Prescott tonot be a Dallas cowboy, and Jerry
Jones accepting that. Yep, indeed, all right, we'll be back and
wrap up hour number two of theprogram Mire on sports Radio WAIAM thirteen under the Zone
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