All episodes of the highly anticipated documentary series revolving around Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, are now available for viewing on Netflix, and there's a lot to take in.
Truth be told, we could likely sit here and drop articles throughout the entirety of the 2025 NFL season and still not say everything we'd like, but it would undoubtedly be an option if we were so inclined.
For the purposes of this piece, however, we'll simply put most of our focus on one particular clip that caught our attention, that being a conversation Jones had in 2023 training camp with Los Angeles Rams president Kevin Demoff.
One Jerry Jones quote from Cowboys' Netflix documentary tells the whole story
Just a couple of years earlier, ahead of the 2021 campaign, the Rams took a bold risk and made a massive trade with the Detroit Lions, giving up 2016 No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff, two first-round draft picks, and a third-round selection to acquire Matthew Stafford. And that risk paid off, of course, as the Rams went on to win the Super Bowl a few months later, marking the franchise's first championship since the 1999 season.
That trade was the topic of conversation between Jones and Demoff, and we'll warn those Cowboys fans who haven't seen this yet that you won't like what Jerry had to say.
"I don't have the balls to put it all out there the way ya'll did on that quarterback [Matthew Stafford]," Jones said. "I won't do that."
Pretty frustrating, right?
As most know, Jones not only owns the Cowboys but also assumed control over football matters after firing legendary GM Tex Schramm just a few months after purchasing the franchise in 1989. And to his credit, he took some risks and made the moves he needed to make, which led to Dallas winning three Super Bowls in the four-season stretch from 1992 to 1995.
But as most also know, the Cowboys haven't returned to the Super Bowl since hoisting their last Lombardi Trophy following that 1995 campaign and haven't even gotten back to the NFC Championship Game.
Sure, Jones has constructed some competitive teams over the last three decades, but he's certainly not one to take big risks. Well, at least not in the sense of making a big trade like the Rams did. He certainly has no problem risking his high-profile players leaving due to questionable negotiating tactics, does he? Just ask Micah Parsons how that's going. But I digress.
One thing that has to be said about Jones is that, for the most part, he knows how to draft. So, one could surmise that he actually could pull off a Stafford-type trade, as it's likely that he could find a few gems in the later rounds of the draft if he gave away some first-rounders to acquire a game-changing player that could potentially end the Cowboys' title drought.
That's what the Rams have done. They were left without some draft capital in the aftermath but still worked around the issue by finding some impact players later like Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, Byron Young, and Kobie Turner, all of whom were taken in Round 3 or later.
Besides, not every first-round pick is a winner. Sorry, Mazi Smith, we're looking at you. As Jones is criticized for every move he makes, Cowboys fans would undoubtedly torch him if he made such a deal. But if he's going to get lit up anyway, Jones might as well get himself the stones he says he lacks and take a shot.