Owner and General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones joins RJ and Bobby to discuss the emotions of being eliminated from the playoffs. He reveals that he had a private conversation with Mike McCarthy and how the reality of it all set in. Jones is really proud of the fight that this team put up this season and know that it’s a good sign for the future. What hard decisions will Jones have to make during this upcoming offseason?
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00:00Jerry, you mentioned there that, uh, you know, after things have been eliminated, they still
00:19came out there and they played really hard. And I know you, you mentioned after the game
00:23that you and Mike McCarthy had spoken, uh, right after the news had become official that
00:29you guys had been eliminated and that it was just a, it was, it was a depressing conversation.
00:33You guys were both upset about it. What was that conversation like, uh, with, with Mike
00:36and, and how did you guys talk about the, the weeks ahead?
00:39Well, I think that, uh, just the, uh, reality, uh, had, uh, was there, it was, uh, uh, in
00:49the room, it was right there. We, uh, uh, weren't going to be able to advance into the
00:53playoffs. And, uh, uh, that's a primary goal of, uh, the team. And, uh, uh, when, uh, the
01:03reality of it soaked in, you mean there's no way there's not a 1% way, uh, that type
01:09of thinking. And, uh, I, uh, really was, uh, uh, it was just noted that you could cut it
01:17with a knife and our private conversation that we were having. And so, uh, uh, that's
01:23bucking up. Uh, but the big thing is it transferred over to those players and boy, they don't
01:29tell those players they weren't playing for a playoff game. They were out there as physical
01:33as I've seen us play, uh, gaining on it, exciting. And, uh, that's really a, uh, it's, it's
01:41really a, uh, a great sign here. Uh, I'll never forget. We won one football game, my
01:48first year in the NFL, 1989, one game. And I get a call and it's Al Davis and John Madden
01:55on the other end. And of course they were buddies and they, uh, uh, might have had a
02:01television personality to everybody, but they were real buddies. And Madden had coached
02:06early for Al Davis and the Raiders. And they said, we just wanted to call and tell you,
02:12boy, keep you to keep your head up. Don't get discouraged. Uh, you didn't lose the team,
02:18so to speak. And, um, I said, well, I said, guys, thank you for calling. I know what you're
02:24doing and I really appreciate it. I said, but guess what? I burned all my ships at sea.
02:31I can't go back. And so I have nothing left to do, but go forward and I'm going forward
02:37and I'm just excited about being in the future of the NFL. But, uh, that's the point is that,
02:44uh, it, it kept a level of, we're going to get better. We're going to give it everything
02:49we've got to get better. Uh, that's what that called me. That's when I got it from Al Davis
02:55and John Madden 30 something years ago.