Everything Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in tense exchange with radio hosts

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones created some early morning buzz on social media after a tense exchange on his weekly radio show on 105.3 The Fan that led to a tense and awkward exchange between him and hosts Shan Shariff, Bobby Belt and RJ Choppy asking questions.

Here is the five-minute excerpt of where things got tense in Jones’ 23-minute availability on Tuesday morning:

Bobby Belt: Jerry, there’s been a lot of talk about execution. I think you’ve mentioned it here already. If the execution has become a problem to the extent that you get losses like the ones against New Orleans and Detroit, why are those players still the right ones for your team?

Jerry Jones: Well, first of all, where are you going to go to get any players? Seriously. Where are you going to go to get any players for the next week in San Francisco? Now number one, I’ve seen these players, I’ve seen every one of them execute like you want the plays to be executed and do their job within the role. That didn’t happen the other day and we paid the consequences for us, but I’ve seen the players do it. I know we have outstanding personnel, very outstanding personnel. We just made our quarterback the highest-paid player in the NFL. We’ve just topped the receiver list charts. So we’ve made our bed relative to how we’re going to approach with our key people with the team. We were short handed out there on defense, but everybody gets short handed. That’s really not an excuse in the NFL. Your depth should step up there and you should be able, if you can, to compensate to some degree. You can’t compensate for the gap, so to speak, that we had between the way our offense played and the way we were supposed to play it. I want to give Detroit a lot of credit for that. They came after us and got after us and they put guys on top of every offensive lineman you had and they came at it and put the kind of pressure that gave Dak a lot of problems and gave our running game a lot of problems. We’ve got to be able to handle that.

Shan Shariff: Jerry, I think the counter back when you said where are you going to get the players, you can’t get them this week is, and you’re aware of all the off season topics…

Jerry Jones: Well, what is your counter? What is your damn counter?

Shan Shariff: My counter is…

Jerry Jones: I really want to know where you would go get it. Now, don’t tell me about ‘you should’ve gotten the guy in the offseason.’

Shan Shariff: Why not?

Jerry Jones: This isn’t a damn word argument just because I’m not arguing with you. I’m dealing with how we line up against San Francisco, not what I did wrong last week or last month or two months ago or two years ago. If I really gave you guys a list of all the things I’ve done wrong over the last few years, you could be on this program for the next five years steady and go over it. But every now and then you do some right things and at the end of the day you add it up, and the rights give you a better spot than the wrongs. But if you think of any minute right now, there’ll be one Super Bowl champion. What’d the others do wrong? There’s one Super Bowl champion. Now we want to be that champion and I’m sure not throwing the tally in today because of what happened out there Sunday, but I’m not going to sit here and waste a lot of energy, a lot of time. Let’s talk about what I should have done back in 1907 or 2017. Come on, come on. I’ve got more time than that and I actually don’t even have time on this great show for looking back at decisions.

Shan Shariff: Okay, so Jerry, 1970, a little different from this past offseason in building the team we’re talking about today, which there was a lot of criticism that you guys didn’t add, didn’t spend and don’t add and don’t spend and are not aggressive enough with some of the problems that are still haunting the Cowboys today that we see play out on the field. That’s the point of talking about the offseason.

Jerry Jones: Oh, I remember those criticisms very well. So what?

Shan Shariff: Are they playing out to be accurate?

Jerry Jones: What’s your point? What’s your point?

Shan Shariff: My point is that it seems like…

Jerry Jones: Listen, let me tell you what I’ll do. Let me tell you what I’ll do about it. I will let us sit down and look at the decisions we’ve made over the last several years. Okay? I’ll look at it. Now, if you think I’m interested on a damn phone call with you over a radio and sitting here and throwing all the good out with the dishwater, you have got to be smoking something over there this morning. I’m not. And I really don’t. And I don’t even want our listeners to listen to me talk about it. 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.

Shan Shariff: Well, my job is to ask why…

Jerry Jones: Get the job, or I’ll get someone else to ask these questions, men.

Shan Shariff: Jerry, we’re trying to figure out why the team is…

Jerry Jones: I’m not kidding you, I’m not kidding. You are not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. If you are or any five or 10 like you, you need to come to this meeting I’m going to today. There are 32 teams here. You’re geniuses.

Shan Shariff: Jerry…

Jerry Jones: Y’all really think you’re going to sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I’ve done wrong and without going over the rights? Now listen, we both know we’re talking to a lot of great fans and a lot of great listeners, and I am very sorry for what happened out there Sunday. I’m sick about what happened Sunday. Now, I’m not talking to these yahoos on the other end of this phone. I’m talking to you, the fans that are listening this morning and we can spend a lot of time going over zigging and zagging. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever done that anybody has ever analyzed is buy the Cowboys. It was an idiot that did that. So idiot things can turn into good decisions, okay? Smart things can turn into bad decisions. The facts are that when you make one, you don’t really know whether it’s going to be good or not at the time. So, let’s just go ahead. I’m trying to answer your questions, man. You want some conversation this morning? You’re getting it.