Jerry Jones throws on his son for yuck

I appreciate Jerry Jones getting in front of a microphone and talking to people. It’s something his NFL owner brothers refuse to do, and maybe if they did, they’d have the most valuable sports franchise in the world. Does Jones speak for the sake of transparency in a way other team owners would never like to say on a weekly radio show, or does he do it because that’s how this billionaire satisfies his ego? I’m not here to judge what goes through Jones’s head, but what he says into the microphones is public information.

He sat in front of the media on Tuesday on the far right, with his son Stephen on the far left and coach Mike McCarthy in the middle. Nice try with the seating arrangement, but you’re not fooling anyone.

A reporter recalled something Jones said earlier at the press conference. He said the phone wasn’t ringing but they were calling to make moves in the draft. She admitted he might be joking, but she threw the sentence back at him, and asked Jones if he calls anyone regarding moves in the draft. He joked again that the line came from a country song, and it might be Rusty Jones.If the phone doesn’t ring, you’ll know it’s me.It’s kind of a deep cut with only 2,000 views on YouTube and it’s from 2012, and Jimmy Buffet’s 1985 exit from a song with a similar title is definitely not a country song.

Either way, Jones then spoke for four minutes and 15 seconds about how risk aversion makes a team mean and how everyone from executives to coaches is included in the process. He punctuated this soliloquy by throwing his son under the bus. Jones took credit for Micah Parsons selection last season — first-team All-Pro as a rookie — and put Taco Charlton’s 2017 selection at the feet of his son Stephen. Charlton may not have worked for the Cowboys, but Cowboys Nation was absolutely having fun with these Taco Bueno advertising even before playing a match.

Also, while it’s not common for billionaires to answer questions from us peasants, Jones should realize he’s talking about the clearest glasshouse in America while taking a quick jab to his son. The very man sitting among them, Coach McCarhty, is a bad decision made on his watch. The Green Bay Packers were successful under McCarthy, but didn’t sniff out a Super Bowl after that win in 2010. Aaron Rodgers Maybe a less sincere Kyrie Irving, but he’s also one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history. Once most of the talent on this team got old, McCarthy didn’t have a counter.

Never forget that the Packers had to start wide receiver Ty Montgomery as an emergency running back because their backfield was decimated by an injury. McCarthy saw 451 yards on 10 starts in the regular season and 91 yards on three starts in the playoffs as reason to award a Stanford wide receiver the starting running back position the following season. He gained a grand total of 271 yards and started just five games.

Plus, which of the Cowboys’ draft errors are on Jones? I’ll give him some slack on the Felix Jones injury (although Rashard Mendenhall was much better), but what about Bobby Carpenter? Was it Stephen’s choice to select Gavin Escobar in the second round of the 2013 draft to eventually replace Jason Witten? What about the trade of three draft picks to select Roy Williams that I remember the most because Dez Bryant refused to wear his pads?

Speaking of trades, how did that Joey Galloway thing go? Jones traded two first-round picks for a wide receiver in 2000. The ACL injury was not Jones’ fault, but the giving up of a first-round pick two years in a row for a wide receiver as Troy Aikman hadn’t made a Pro Bowl since 1996, he can take all the blame.

And let’s not forget Jones’ biggest mistake, firing one of the greatest managers in football history for a battle of egos. Jimmy Johnson should have coached the Cowboys until he decided not to coach anymore. Instead, it was a band of Barry Switzers, Dave Campos, Jason Garretts and now Mike McCarthys marching to the beat of Jerry’s drum.

I get the joke, and how much ego it takes to want to make public statements when you’re worth so much money you don’t have to talk to anyone but your assistants. But Jerry, I mean congratulations on picking Parsons and the other hits you’ve had, Tyron Smith, Dak Prescott, etc. However, the world’s most valuable sports franchise hasn’t sniffed a championship since your Pizza Hut advertising with Deion Sanders. It’s certainly not Stephen’s fault.