As Stephen A. Smith claims Jerry Jones’ cognitive decline is rivaling Joe Biden’s, the Dallas Cowboys owner believes he’s still sharp as a tack.
During his weekly appearance with 105.3 The Fan’s midday show The K&C Masterpiece, Jones was asked about Smith recently expressing worry for his mental state. More specifically, Jones responded to Smith believing it’s time for someone to remove him from the public spotlight.
“Stephen A. is a fraud in a positive sense and I’m smiling. We are friends,” Jones claimed. “And I am having huge support and huge input and help from everyone he mentioned in that call about stepping in. But I would say if he had asked me that question relative to the issue or the criticism that Biden had about his ability to function, I wish he would follow me around every day. And he would see that I’m the busiest I’ve ever been in my life.
“I’m not concerned about the ability to do the work, to do the job. I just made a quick 14-hour trip back and forth to New York yesterday for a league meeting. But my point is that – Stephen A. – and I’d love to have him just sit beside us for a day and make the rounds and have him listen to me field the calls and do the kinds of things we do and he wouldn’t be worried about me there. But I do appreciate his concern. And by the way, it is genuine.”
Surely, that’s exactly what Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys need right now, a wellness check from Stephen A. Smith.
In the wake of Jones battling reporters over curtains at AT&T Stadiums and the Cowboys losing their fifth straight game, Smith went on First Take this week and sounded the alarm on the 82-year-old NFL owner.
Stephen A. Smith “I’m getting very very worried about Jerry Jones… I find myself thinking about Joe Biden before he backed out of running for reelection. I think Jerry’s one month older than President Joe Biden for crying out loud… where the hell are his family members?” pic.twitter.com/8YMpffSMX8
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 19, 2024
“I’m getting very, very worried about Jerry Jones,” Smith said Tuesday morning. “Because the only thing that’s worse than the team’s play is his press conferences…I find myself thinking about Joe Biden before he backed out of running for re-election. I think Jerry’s one month older than President Joe Biden for crying out loud…where the hell are his family members?”
It wasn’t Biden’s family members who forced him to back out of running for re-election, it was the Democratic Party’s donors. Jones doesn’t have to answer to donors the way a presidential candidate does, allowing him to continue running the Cowboys as if they’re his own, because they are.
Smith isn’t wrong in believing the Cowboys would benefit from their owner taking a backseat. But that isn’t a revelation, people have been calling for Jones to assume a less active role with the Cowboys, and in the media, for decades. Jones, however, a salesperson at heart, just can’t help himself.
