Cowboys' Jerry Jones reaches new low with weak response to radio outburst

It's hard to say if Jerry Jones' meltdown on 105.3 The Fan was an attempt to keep the Dallas Cowboys in the news cycle during their bye week or if he actually took offense to the questions. It might be a mixture of both, but Jones is undoubtedly feeling the pressure amid Dallas' 3-3 start.

The interview went off the rails when host Shan Shariff mentioned fans' disappointment with the Cowboys' passive offseason. Jones did not take kindly to that and went on the defense all the while ducking the subject matter.

Clearly not ready to navigate hard hitting questions, Jones threatened - and then doubled down - to have the hosts removed from the station. While Jones does not write their checks, he probably does wield the power to get them fired being that 105.3 The Fan pays to be the home of the Cowboys.

That is neither here nor there, however. Facing slings and arrows from every which direction, an apology seemed to be Jones' next order of business. In typical Jerry fashion, though, he doubled down.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones refuses to apologize for radio outburst

“I don’t know that I would go as far as (calling) the volume connotation as yelling,” Jones said, via The Athletic. “But the facts are that if I’m going to be grilled by the tribunal, I don’t need it to be by the guys I’m paying. I can take it from fans and take it from other people. I take a lot of pride in how fair and how much I try to work with the media, we’re brothers and sisters. But I was a little frustrated there today."

“The wrong ones were doing the questioning. Now, if those had been real fans sitting there or if there had been people that knew what they were talking about, football people, I might have had a different answer.”

It's admittedly difficult to feel bad for Jones, but this is a new low.

Blinded by rage and embarrassment over the Cowboys' miserable start (this is a bad 3-3 team, folks), Jones laid waste to the narrative that he doesn't control the local media. Tuesday's interview along with his response gave the impression that he wants to dictate the narrative. Again, 105.3 The Fan is the flagship station, but Jones does not pay the station's work force.

"The wrong ones" were not doing the question, as Jones stated. 105.3 The Fan has faced criticism over the years for giving Jones a soft landing spot to discuss the team. With Dallas potentially staring down the barrel of missing the playoffs, Shariff and co-host RJ Choppy had full jurisdiction to press Jones about running it back with the same roster that got steamrolled in the playoffs.

Jones took aim at Shariff and RJ for not being "football people" and yet thousands upon thousands of fans and analysts forecasted what the Cowboys would be this season after a lousy offseason: mediocre with enough star-power to win games but ultimately nowhere near good enough to contend for a Super Bowl.

Jones said he would have taken a different approach if he talked to "real fans." For such a brilliant businessman, Jones doesn't even have a pulse of his own fan base because he would be raked over the coals by fans.

At the end of the day, everything that's wrong with the Dallas Cowboys is related to the fact that Jones is the general manager. Folks are starting to hold him accountable and his coping mechanism is to make others feel small while avoiding accountability.

It's a weak move and that he still hasn't apologized is embarrassing.

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