Throughout the history of sports, there are only a select few owners who have become synonymous with their team to the point where they become somewhat a face of the franchise. Jerry Jones is among that group, and the 81-year-old isn't planning on stepping away from the Dallas Cowboys anytime soon.
In an interview with DLLS, the owner and GM of America's Team gave an expletive-heavy response as to why he is, and will remain, in the position he is in with the Cowboys.
"I've done it all," Jones began. "So I have an ordinate amount of confidence that, f—-, if anybody can figure out how to get this s—- done, I can figure out how to get it done. I've been there every which way from Sunday, and have I busted my a— a bunch, a bunch. So hell no, there's nobody that could f—-ing come in here and do all the contracts ... and be a GM any better than I can."
Jones, who has owned the club since 1989, went on to say that "I'm where the buck stops" and that all of the responsibility falls on his shoulders, again reiterating that "there's nobody that can do it."
Would Jones ever give up his power, particularly his GM duties? Absolutely not.
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"The reason I don't let somebody else be the GM is because I don't have anybody that I will let do it to actually do it right," he continued in the interview. "And they're gonna have to come to me and because I know where it is that you're going to pay for it."
Jones said he's a "long way" from stepping away and only when "I can't f—-ing think" will he ever walk away from Dallas.
Before and right at the time of this DLLS story coming out, Jones and the organization had been under fire for how they were handling contract negotiations with star wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. Coincidentally, Lamb and The Boys inked a massive deal to keep him longterm.
Maybe Jerry Jones knows what he's doing after all. Either way, there will always be pressure on Jones and the Cowboys being how much the team finds itself in the national spotlight. The organization is in search of its first Super Bowl win since 1995.
So just as Leonardo Dicaprio famously uttered in The Wolf of Wall Street, "You know what, I ain't leaving," neither is Jerry Jones.
