Jerry Jones knows this has been a quiet offseason for the Dallas Cowboys; he’s hoping the different tune results in a different end-of-season song than it has for the last 30 years.
“Well, let me just say this, it just again shows me the psychology of things,” Jones said. “I think it was talked about earlier because of the time between the draft and now that we haven’t had something that was really if you will say juicy in that area to talk about. Then all of a sudden we start talking about it being a little quiet, and we tell our mirror it’s being quiet and tell each other, and all of a sudden it’s quiet or all of a sudden it can be controversial. We haven’t had something like we had last year with the (Micah) Parsons contract, but what we have done is we’ve really done some things that gave it a chance to be noisier if it wanted to be noisier, but they just didn’t get that type of attention. But let me just say this, Patrick (Doney). You know that I believe if it gets too quiet, if it gets slow, I stir it up. And I do that purposely because I like to keep the, if you will, the debate going on.”
AT&T Stadium was anything but quiet this summer, hosting 9 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, including the Spain-France semifinal.
“Well, if all that stadium did was do soccer, then you might have that permanent grass field. If all it had were soccer games, then you might have the suites removed that were removed from around the sidelines, the alterations that we made to have those soccer games. But that stadium wasn’t built for soccer. We made it. We adapted it. What it was built for. It’s best not to have grass; it’s best to have turf. What it was built for is the elements. Football is really one of the big parts of it is you play the game with elements as part of the obstacles. Unless it’s lightning in the NFL, you play in anything, any kind of weather. And so I feel very good about That’s it. What we adapted the stadium for for soccer, but that just wouldn’t work for our football and what we do with all the other events that we have out there all year,” Jones said.
Jones also offered his support for Tony Romo after his OWI arrest in July; Jones credited the longtime Cowboys quarterback for his ability to overcome adversity.
“Well, first of all, I have had a chance to talk with Tony since this particular, right at this particular time. And I do talk to Tony quite a bit. I don’t have anybody that I’ve been associated with as a player, a coach, or a business partner that I think more of than I do Tony Romo. And I’m not talking about his ability for football or as an athlete, just as a person, as a daddy. And one of the things that happens if you’ve… Got a lot of visibility. If you’re out there, then when you hit bumps, everybody hits them. When you hit bumps, then get ready. There’s gonna be more made of them than they are. I know that anybody listening to me right now knows that if you’re breathing, you’re gonna have some mistakes as you go along. And so there’s no doubt in my mind that Tony will get through these times and uh… Make any type of adjustments that need to be made. But let me tell you one thing, I can’t tell you how much I’m in Tony Romo’s corner,” Jones said.
Jones also said he plans to maintain ownership of the Dallas Cowboys despite recent NFL rule changes about private equity and minority stakes in NFL teams.
“Well, first of all, no, I’m not considering it. And there’s something that is fundamental. Any time you’re in an activity, if that activity, whether it be church, whether it be city, whether it be family, whether it be, as it turns out, sports, whether it be business. If that activity is very friendly and attracts capital, you can be sure that it’s either thriving or has a chance to thrive. It’s when the activity doesn’t merit people wanting to be involved in it financially that it has a big challenge ahead. I could have never seen 30, 40 years ago when I got involved with the Cowboys what things are financially today. But I’m rewarded because I know, again, whether it’s family, whether it’s a city or whatever measure you want to take of the organization, if it has the ability to get capital, then the participants, the framework of what it’s doing, have an even better chance to thrive and be everything it can be. There’s no question in my mind that the ability to get capital in the NFL over the last 25 or 30 years has really contributed to the quality and the level of play that we have in the NFL. It’s a positive thing,” Jones said.
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