Cowboys players and coaches not buying into Jones’s QB controversy idea

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones loves drama. This week, he told reporters he would openly welcome the idea of a QB controversy between Cooper Rush and Dak Prescott. In other words, he wants Rush to do so well that it makes it hard to decide whether Rush or Prescott should be the starter when the QB1 is fully healthy.

While we can all appreciate the desire for this team to win games and for the backup quarterback to be surprisingly better than we all expected, for Jones to imply that benching his $40 million-a-year quarterback would be exciting and fun seems a bit wild.

Even though the GM loves to stir things up and do whatever he can to get fans in seats, the rest of the people in this organization aren’t buying into the chaos. When Mike McCarthy, who has had to deal with his fair share of Jones drama, was asked about his GM’s comments, the Cowboys head coach was quick to shut it down.

"“I’m just trying to say this with a straight face. Like anything, you look at the whole thing, it’s about winning. That’s all we really care about. There is no quarterback controversy. Dak is our starter.”"

McCarthy went on to comment on the two different sides of Jones:

"“I think you need to be able to decipher between GM Jerry and owner Jerry. He can do that in like midsentence, too. I think you all need to do a better job of that. Get to work.”"

Mike McCarthy and other Cowboys players shut down Jerry Jones’s QB controversy idea

Poor McCarthy. This man is just trying to coach a team and constantly has to also deal with the drama that the Joneses stir up.

However, the Cowboys’ head coach isn’t the only one who wasn’t buying what Jones was selling.

Running back Ezekiel Elliott, a man who has spent six years in this organization, told reporters that the GM’s statement was “all marketing.”

The press even asked the man involved in the “controversy” itself: Cooper Rush. The calm, cool, and collected QB jokingly said he doesn’t dream as big as the Cowboys owner.

Rush even added that he and Prescott had “a good laugh” when they heard what Jones said to the media. At least players know what to expect from Jones and know what they can laugh off.

At the end of the day, everyone in the building knows that Prescott is the starter. McCarthy thinks Jones knows it too, despite his comments:

"“Clearly, everybody in our locker room and everybody in the building, Jerry (Jones) included, knows Dak is our quarterback,” McCarthy said. “We want Cooper to be successful as possible. So, I think it stops right there.”"

This team has enough pressure to win games as it is. They certainly don’t need drama added, especially from people within the organization. However, as long as Jones is the owner, that’s the way it’ll be.

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