Cowboys owner Jerry Jones dropped a bombshell Friday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. He openly admitted, “I have been trying to lure very successful coaches away from the teams they were on.” This isn’t some offhand comment, folks. This is a direct, undeniable statement that, unless he’s talking about high school or college coaches, is a blatant violation of NFL rules. Period. End of discussion.
Jerry’s Own Goal: Trying to Undo His Own Mess
So, why would an owner just blurt out something like that? Jones was trying to reverse the perception, or maybe the reality, that he deliberately underspends on coaches. He made this admission as an effort to bolster the idea that, yes, he’s willing to spend. This whole debacle started because on Tuesday, he ridiculously claimed there’s no correlation between coaching pay and winning. He tried to put out a “frugality fire” he started himself, but instead, he just threw gasoline on a tampering inferno, making a nonchalant concession that he has indeed tried to pry NFL coaches away from their current teams.
Don’t Hold Your Breath For Any Real Action
The big question now is, what will the NFL do about this? The source explicitly states, “Will the NFL look into this one? Probably not.” Why the likely pass? Because the league surely realizes, as the rest of us do, that Jerry was simply saying whatever he had to say to lessen the impact of the accidental truth he told on Tuesday regarding a deliberate reluctance to do whatever he needs to do to make his team as good as it can be.
So, while Jones tried to spin a tale of big spending, he ended up confessing to a serious infraction. The league, however, appears ready to let this one slide, letting him off the hook for a “blatant violation of the rules.” This situation, according to the source, is unlikely to trigger an NFL investigation. It begs the question: how many “accidental truths” does it take before rules actually apply?
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Originally reported by Pro Football Talk.
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