The Dallas Cowboys might like playing in prime time, but they don't appear to be interested in being
coached by Prime Time. At least according to Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones. He sat down for a long interview with Stephen A. Smith (for
The Stephen A. Smith Show ) and fielded a number of hard hitting questions from the sports personality, such as: -Why the Cowboys won't spend more money? -Why they didn't go after Derrick Henry in free agency? -Whether or not
Dak Prescott is the QB of the future for Dallas? Jerry Jones happily answered all of the questions, and surprisingly took some of the criticism that was thrown his way by Smith. But once they got to the very end of the hour-long interview, Jones didn't really entertain this question that Stephen A. sent his way:
"What if I said to you, ‘Jerry, Cowboys are going to lose again.’ And as a result you gonna find yourself feeling the need to make a change. And Jerry Jones decides one day down the road in the near future, assuming that he doesn’t achieve the success that he covets, that he’s going to hire Prime Time Deion Sanders as a head coach. That would be crazy. Is Jerry Jones crazy enough to do something like that someday?" I love that Smith asked Jerry Jones right to his face if he was crazy enough to do something. He's shown
some flashes of crazy in recent months, so maybe Stephen A. was just going off of that. And what did Jerry Jones have to say to an inquiry on whether or not he was crazy? Or at least crazy enough to hire a former Dallas Cowboys star as the team's head coach? Well, he kept things short and sweet and made sure not to say anything that could fuel clickbait and sports debate shows:
"No, but he does know how to spell well enough and not answer a hypothetical question... You are familiar with our... I’m going use it, the ‘love affair’ that we have. I have always admired him, both on and off the field. Some of the best stories that I have to tell about my time in sports have been Deion-type stories with Deion and Michael (Irvin) and those guys." Well there you sort of have it. Jerry Jones apparently isn't crazy enough to do that, though he does admit to having a "love affair" with Deion Sanders - I'm assuming as fellow professionals in the sports business. And he brought up some of his favorite stories right? Well it sure seems like he went right into a rambling one that he had about Deion, seemingly deflecting in order to avoid Stephen A. Smith's potential coaching question. Get comfortable, this is a long one:
"I remember the one that I love the most is he came in to sign his big contract. $12 million bonus at the time. I had put a total cash, out of my cash, $12 million down to buy the Cowboys. $12 million to buy the Cowboys. Now I didn’t have to come up with the full $150, but I used all of my cash. Before I gave that to Deion Sanders, I went back to my hometown, Little Rock, Rose City, North Little Rock, and I walked down my old street. And I walked down it when that quarter and that dollar used to be everything. Walked down there, saw some old chips on a tree and on a telephone pole that I knocked out. I turned around and walked back because I wondered had something gotten over me, had I completely lost it to be thinking about paying a man $12 million dollar bonus to do it. I walked by my old house, went back over, got on that plane, that was then, this is now. I’m going for it. Went over, met Deion at the stadium. Never forget. Came in, great to see him. The whole time we were waiting to go on on stage and announce that he was going to be a Cowboy he spent playing with that boy. And all he could pay attention to, had all these people around, it was that boy. And I said that’s that’s a heart I want to be around right there." Jerry Jones knew he wanted to be around Sanders' heart right then and there... just not as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, I suppose? You can listen to the excerpt from the recent episode of
The Stephen A. Smith Show below: https://youtu.be/NGZoG78Ee0o?si=40gP95gyM61Qxk_S&t=3949
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