Jerry Jones breaks his silence on Dallas Cowboys awful start to the season

Fans of the Dallas Cowboys are disappointed aft their mediocre commencement to the 2024 season - and fingers are being pointed astatine proprietor Jerry Jones.

Dallas opened their play with a triumph implicit the Cleveland Browns, but followed that up with consecutive defeats to the New Orleans Saints and the Baltimore Ravens. Now, they've got a important Thursday Night Football crippled against the New York Giants coming up.

With tensions high, a canvass from WFAA-TV successful Dallas shows that 70 percent of voters blamed Jones for the unsmooth opening to the campaign.

Jones didn't scold the fans for their feelings, telling the 'Shan and RJ' amusement connected 105.3 The Fan, 'That's precise fair.'

'It's good known that nary determination is yet made present for what I either person acquiesced [to] oregon approved it. That's precise fair. 

'How could you deliberation otherwise, whether it beryllium who's retired determination coaching, whether it beryllium who's retired determination playing, whether it beryllium the stadium you're walking into? Whatever it is here, that's the mode it is.

'Now, fto maine conscionable accidental this. Do I person a immense magnitude of input successful making those decisions? When they've done their homework, they're precise influential input to me, and we've got a batch of radical successful the Dallas Cowboys that person done their input.'

This play is not unsocial erstwhile it comes to criticizing Jones - who has taken the brunt of disapproval aft taking implicit the squad arsenic proprietor and wide manager successful 1989.

But instrumentality vexation has been peculiarly precocious pursuing a nonaccomplishment to the Green Bay Packers successful the playoffs successful January - bringing Dallas's Super Bowl drought to 28 seasons.

'I conjecture I got baptized erstwhile I archetypal came to Dallas and bought the Cowboys and we won 1 shot game,' Jones said connected The Fan. 

'We had made changes, changed retired the lone manager for 29 years [Tom Landry], and we got immense disapproval and the benignant that would marque what you're seeing present child's play. ... You're dealing with thing but a batch of emotion astir our team. 

'It ne'er ceases to astonishment maine some from the authorities of Texas successful the lawsuit of the Cowboys oregon each implicit this state successful the lawsuit of the Cowboys and it's either determination due to the fact that they privation to spot america get our you-know-what kicked oregon it's determination due to the fact that they're pursuing us. 

'The happening that inspires maine the astir is the emotion astir it, but it certainly, I'm alert of it, alert of criticism, but not immoderate much alert than that people astatine the extremity of the game. Let's enactment it similar that.

'I'm alert that you tin person a batch of criticism. I was calved of that present with the Cowboys. You tin person a batch of criticism, and you tin extremity up trolling those trophies high. And that's what this is about.'

So acold Dallas has peculiarly struggled erstwhile it comes to the moving crippled connected some sides of the shot - sitting bottommost of the league successful tally defence and third-bottom successful rushing offense.

In spite of these glaring issues, Jones inactive believes the roster is talented capable to enactment itself out.

'I bash deliberation that, portion we're disappointed without a uncertainty and tin truly spot however we request to truly enactment this happening amended unneurotic arsenic a team, much coordinated -- and I'm not conscionable saying wrong the defence -- I'm saying defense, offense, the full area,' Jones said.

'I deliberation we person a accidental to amended connected this, and that's the large thing. We're not hitting connected each cylinders. If we were, that'd beryllium existent concerning.'

Dallas's astir caller 1-3 commencement came backmost successful 2020 - which was the archetypal play with Mike McCarthy astatine the helm. They ended up finishing that run 6-10.

With the crippled against the Giants successful the Meadowlands coming up, Jones stopped abbreviated of calling it a 'must win' for their season's prospects.

'They're successful our division; that says capable close there, and we request a bully game,' Jones said, adding, 'What's a must-win? We play 17 games. 

'Some sports play implicit 150 games. It gets down successful those with playing 150 games that they get down to 2 oregon 3 games that you could look backmost and say, 'They indispensable win.' And to me, erstwhile I deliberation astir it, that's the case. 

'You mightiness look backmost and accidental that's a crippled that you turned the corner, that's a crippled that you did that. And I don't mean to dependable cavalier erstwhile I'm saying it, but, boy, each possession is an important possession for america and for each player. 

'And that's the trick, is play the possession, bash the champion that you've got successful you. When you're retired determination knowing everybody other is going to bash the aforesaid thing, bully things volition happen.'