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Pro Football Hall of Famer and First Take panelist Shannon Sharpe absolutely eviscerated Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones over comments he made to a radio host during a tense interview.
During his weekly interview on the Dallas-area sports radio station 105.3 The Fan with Shan Shariff, RJ Choppy, and Bobby Belt, the 82-year-old billionaire threatened the jobs of the hosts’ after taking issue with their line of questioning.
Jones explicitly threatened to have them fired while on air, saying he could have “someone else” ask him questions.
“This is not your job. Your job isn’t to let me go over all the reasons that I did something and I’m sorry that I did it. That’s not your job. I’ll get someone else to ask these questions. I’m not kidding,” Jones said.
“You’re not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. If you are, you need to come to this meeting I’m going to today with 32 teams. You’re geniuses. You really think you’re gonna sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I’ve done wrong without going over the rights?”
.@shannonsharpe didn’t hold back on Jerry Jones’ comments after Dallas’ loss to Detroit 😳 pic.twitter.com/kM8KheBWqb
— First Take (@FirstTake) October 15, 2024
While discussing the incident on the Tuesday, October 15 episode of First Take, the former Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens tight end tore into Jones for using his position of power to threaten another man’s livelihood.
“To put a man in fear for his job — I hate, I detest, I despise someone that would pray on the weak. And because Jerry Jones is an advantageous situation, because he has the power in this situation, he would actually say that publicly. That that tells me a lot about a man/ That’ll tell me a lot about a man that has power and would abuse that power,” Sharpe said about the longtime Cowboys owner.
“See, Jerry wants all the credit when things go well, but none of the blame. He told us how many times, ‘The buck stops with me. Any deal that’s ever happened, I either signed off on it or I got notified of it.’ Now, you’re getting trounced. You’re getting run through like Sherman went through Atlanta during the Civil War, and now you want no part of it when they ask you about it.”
Sharpe then dropped the hammer down with his take, saying he hopes the Cowboys never win another game for as long as Jones owns the team, which he purchased for $150 million in 1989.
“Boy, this is a bad — and I don’t take this lightly. If the Cowboys don’t win another playoff game or another game, as long as Jerry Jones is the owner, I’ll be the happiest man in the world,” Sharpe concluded.
Despite all of the doom and gloom surrounding the Cowboys, their 3-3 record puts them just one game out of first place in the NFC East, which is currently occupied by the 4-2 Commanders, who, while fun, have yet to prove they can remain at a division-winning level over the course of an entire season.