ESPN Get Up reacts to 'alarming' Jerry Jones tirade, response to question on Dallas Cowboys' struggles

Jerry Jones unleashed on a radio host during his Tuesday appearance on 105.3 The Fan when asked about his lack of moves in the offseason, asserting to the personality that it’s “not your job” to question him “over all the reasons that I did something and I’m sorry that I did it.”

After hearing the surprising rant from the Dallas Cowboys owner, the crew on ESPN Get Up reacted to the tirade. Jeff Saturday, Dominque Foxworth, Dan Graziano and Marcus Spears didn’t take too kindly to Jones’ words following the team’s 47-9 Week 6 blowout defeat to the Detroit Lions.

“He challenged a man’s job because he’s questioning (him) — that is Nick Sirianni. That’s the same energy,” Saturday exclaimed. “When everything is out of control, you’re seeing what is internally in them, and that is to come out and swing, and fight, and threaten, all of those things, because he’s pissed he didn’t do what he’s supposed to do, and somebody is calling him out on it. He’s out of control on it.”

After Saturday’s heated assertion, comparing Jones to the Philadelphia Eagles coach, Foxworth explained his belief that Jones is lashing out because he doesn’t see a path towards fixing the Cowboys’ season in 2024.

“He has the power, but he doesn’t have the power to fix what’s wrong with him at this point,” Foxworth added. “The decisions that would’ve fixed this are long past, so this is what you do when you’re losing, and you’re getting beat up. Your jiu-jitsu didn’t work. All the self-defense stuff that you’ve practiced didn’t work. Like, I don’t know, I’m going to bite, I’m going to scratch, I’m going to pull some hair. That’s essentially what he’s doing, I don’t know what else to do. I’ll lash out.”

Continuing, Graziano believes the rant should concern Cowboys fans, as it’s out of character for the team owner. Of course he’s mad about Sunday’s beat down, but the team’s potential as a whole has Jones staring into the abyss.

“I think what’s alarming though if you’re a Cowboys fan is how out of character it is,” Graziano elaborated. “You might hear, behind the scenes, people in that building grumble about the way they’re perceived, you never hear Jerry talk like that on the radio, unless I’m missing something. That seems, to me, like obviously the game Sunday was ludicrously bad. Even in your worst nightmare you couldn’t have imagined a game that bad, so I’m sure he’s still shaking that off, but I think it’s also a realization that we’re heading into a Week 7 bye and things are getting worse, not better.

“I think we’re hearing something in Jerry’s voice that we’re not used to hearing. … They’re hitting him on the thing he takes the most pride in. All these years, they win 12 games and flame out in the playoffs. You can say, ‘The playoffs, that’s crazy, it’s one game,’ but you always know you built a good roster. Now you’re being told you didn’t build a good roster this year, it’s not good enough to compete and it’s hitting home. That’s what would alarm me as a Cowboys fan.”

As for the former Cowboys star and self-proclaimed fan in Spears, the analyst believes Jones’ frustration comes with the acknowledgment that he whiffed on building this season’s roster, and it’s the first time in a long time the front office is to blame for Dallas’ struggles.

“We’re hearing for the first time him take accountability that he’s a big reason for where this team is; where they are right now,” Spears stated. “Taking accountability, but not wanting to not use your power. I’ll tell you this too, it was very disrespectful to tell them that on the radio. I’m telling you, it’s horrible, but it’s an acknowledge, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard Jerry acknowledge, ‘Yeah, I messed this up.’ We know about the Super Bowl 25 years ago and all of that, you messed this up and everybody knows it, and it’s something you cannot hide from, and they can’t hide from it in the building.

“That’s why you heard him admit that they’re not where they should be, but also, ‘I’m the owner, and I’m going to tell you what you can’t tell me.’ That’s what that was. … There have been good teams in Dallas. This is the first time in a long time where it’s a bad football team, and its personnel.”

Alas, the bye week might be coming at the perfect time for the Cowboys, as Jerry Jones and the entire franchise can reflect on why they’re where they are at the moment. Dallas will return to action with the idea of turning their 2024 campaign around on Oct. 27, when they face the San Francisco 49ers inside Levi’s Stadium on Sunday Night Football.