{"id":354493,"date":"2025-11-04T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:37:11","slug":"cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-trade-talk-captures-spotlight-but-leaves-us-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354493\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones\u2019 trade talk captures spotlight, but leaves us in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON \u2014 If you couldn\u2019t keep up with everything Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Monday, good news: You\u2019re not alone. Even reporters encircling him outside the team\u2019s locker room after a 27-17 defeat to the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> on Monday needed time to process everything that Jones said across multiple appearances. <\/p>\n

There was one undeniable moment of truth from Jones on Monday, however \u2014 a simple sentence that couldn\u2019t be construed for anything other than pure honesty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I\u2019m talking in circles,\u201d Jones said after a convoluted answer about a potential trade, \u201cbut I\u2019m talking in circles because I\u2019m in a highly competitive situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

And a highly confusing one, too, by his own doing. <\/p>\n

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Monday was a classic example of Jones stealing the spotlight. It started when he went on Stephen A. Smith\u2019s SiriusXM radio show and said that he had made a trade<\/a>, putting social media in a craze. Questions about who the Cowboys traded for quickly turned into another question: Dd they actually make a trade? Jones didn\u2019t answer that question by the end of the day. He even walked it back, reiterating multiple times after his team fell to 3-5-1 that no trade had been made official yet, according to league rules. He did say there was at least one trade available to him that he\u2019s leaning toward doing, however. <\/p>\n

To further understand the confusion of the day, digest the answer he gave before he had decided to be forthcoming about talking in circles: <\/p>\n

\u201cAnything is significant if it\u2019s going to be somebody that\u2019s going to be active in the games and on the field and that type of thing,\u201d Jones said when asked to characterize the impact of the player he potentially has traded for, or would trade for. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to diminish the trade, but we certainly, for what a player was going to bring to the table, for whatever happened tonight [in the game], we need that player to bring that to the table, for whatever happened tonight. But does it make sense? And more than likely it does for the one that we can do.\u201d <\/p>\n

All of this for a player that may or may not be on the team\u2019s roster when the trade deadline passes Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Reminder: Eagles general manager Howie Roseman traded for an impact pass rusher on Monday morning in Miami\u2019s Jaelan Phillips<\/a>. As of early Tuesday morning, Roseman hadn\u2019t given any public interviews about the deal. <\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s media tour \u2014 that also included an announcement on ESPN for the 2027 NHL Stadium Series hockey game <\/a>\u2014 also fit in with the tone of the week.<\/p>\n

Jones drew the ire of some fans this week when he poked fun at the team\u2019s defensive situation, saying he would rather spend a few minutes talking to The Wall Street Journal about a potential $100 billion gas breakthrough than attempting to fix that same defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jones later pushed back on the notion that the quote was emblematic of a concern that some fans have with him being the team\u2019s owner and general manager: That his interests are spread too thin to be successful at one. That his focus, as an important trade deadline nears, should only be on improving the team. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, every time I can, I\u2019m looking for ways to give advantages to the Dallas Cowboys,\u201d Jones said on 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM). \u201cAnybody that says I don\u2019t focus on the Cowboys is just living in the moment of frustration, and I get that. And I\u2019m frustrated too.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trade talk on Monday \u2014 much ado about nothing for the moment \u2014 also opened the door for a question about the vulnerability of a potential deal. Jones was adamant that no trades are completed until both teams simultaneously submit paperwork to the league. Until then, that means a deal in place could be out of place in a moment\u2019s notice. That\u2019s especially true in a competitive environment like Jones insinuated he\u2019s in. <\/p>\n

If Jones is so worried about the deal falling apart, why would he discuss a potential deal? People around the league listen. People talk. At the very least, the team that he has a deal in place with now knows that Jones has publicly put it out to fans \u2014 hungry for change on this struggling Cowboys team, mind you \u2014 that something is coming their way tomorrow. Is he worried about losing the team he potentially, maybe, already agreed to a deal with?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI just don\u2019t want another team \u2014 if I\u2019m interested in completing it \u2014 step in and get him. I\u2019ve had that happen several times. It happens and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Confused? That\u2019s what happens when you listen in circles. <\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2014 If you couldn\u2019t keep up with everything Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Monday, good news:…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":354494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,59853,7311,1596,8998,50027,1232,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-354493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-att-stadium","10":"tag-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-jerry-jones","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115490288239989553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}