Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones made his long-anticipated return to 105.3 The Fan following his contentious interview with Shan, RJ and Bobby last week, which included him suggesting that he "could get someone else to ask these questions" when asked why he didn't acquire more talent in the offseason.
Shan opened the interview by asking Jones if he had anything more to say about the tense exchange.
"I don't have anything to say about last week. I'll tell you, I'm surprised that last week got the attention it got," Jones said. "Really when I think about what we try to do on this show ... I think we give you two shots a week that I get on and Stephen (Jones) gets on ... those are really a privilege ... You get some inside stuff. As you know, I don't go before normal press conference during the week usually. This is the kind of thing that I would expect and how I would answer it."
Without being asked a second question, Jones then went into a long winded discussion about how he gets tired of addressing the same questions about his mistakes and mentioned that he anticipated being asked one Tuesday about not pursuing Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry in free agency after Henry totaled 182 yards in Baltimore's 41-31 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.
"And so my point is those kinds of questions are pointedly toward putting you on a spot to make a certain kind of answer. I've obviously been asked that Derrick Henry question almost every day since we started training camp. And so that's a get in your ass type of question and I understand that. I see that coming and that's real good," Jones said. "But when you do it several times, and of course I keep up with what you guys say when I'm not on the show, and so when you do it several times, I know that when you're asked about a question such as one that you might have at home, why did you do that? And you do it several times, then you really know what the situation is, where it's coming from. So those are the kinds of things that this show to me can and be about."
Shan then mentioned how appreciative he is for the weekly conversations they've had with Jones over the last 15 years and offered an olive branch to Jones after the owner and GM suggested that he paid the hosts and seemingly threatened to move his show elsewhere.
"Listen, here's the thing. The fact that we've been doing it 15 years, it shows that someplace in between there we got comfortable in our skin doing these type things and we did get comfortable with it," Jones said. "Now I'm tickled to death that we have as much interest in this as we do and as you well know, but guys, I have no issue. And you know that as a matter of fact you've said that I have no issue with getting up in front of a bunch of media and people of journalism and asking and answering, getting questions and answer. Yeah, and I don't have any problem with that."
The morning show then went about its business and asked Jones several questions about what Troy Aikman had to say about the team's receivers running poor routes, Amari Cooper being traded, and much more before the interview ended with Jones offering one final thought on their fiery visit last week.
"I love the job that y'all do, and you do have an element of that now that still doesn't keep you," Jones said. "I asked Michael Irvin one time who I'd rather be in a dark alley with Mike than anybody I know, but when Mike gets, it really gets going. He starts laughing, and the more scared he is, the more rough it is, the more he laughs. And so the point is we all have different ways of dealing with angst or dealing with pressure. I like the way we do this show, and I'll tell you this right now, I don't think it does any harm at all to have disagreements. I don't think it does any harm to show emotion. I think all of that is a part of it. I saw recently where somebody said, boy, you can't be in this game certainly as a player or a coach or what have you, without showing temper, without showing emotion. And I think you guys do a great job of that. I try to basically have more than just answers that you could get by reading the paper. I try to do that sometimes with a motion and I'm not reluctant to show emotion."