{"id":42609,"date":"2025-08-03T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:13:07","slug":"dez-bryant-roc-nation-take-issue-with-jerry-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42609\/","title":{"rendered":"Dez Bryant, Roc Nation take issue with Jerry Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent Jerry Jones word potato salad regarding his direct negotiations with linebacker Micah Parsons included a gratuitous slap at former Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant and his agent, Jay-Z.<\/p>\n

Via Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Jones had this to say about Bryant and Jay-Z: \u201c[W]hen we have a problem with the player, the agent is nowhere to be found. Jay-Z said that Dez would make all meetings. Jay-Z and I negotiated the contract, spent hours. He said, \u2018Anybody in my organization is on time.\u2019 He said, \u2018My office used to be on the street corner, and I\u2019ve always been early. So, they will be on time.\u2019 And what did I say? I said, \u2018I\u2019m going to call you [when I have a problem].\u2019 He quit taking my call<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryant responded on Twitter, with an all-caps warning for Jerry. (We\u2019ve edited it, so that we\u2019re not screaming at your eyeballs.)<\/p>\n

\u201cJerry Jones,\u201d Bryant said, \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s smart to mention my name<\/a>. I kept quiet about a lot of unfair shit. On some G shit. We can have story time if that\u2019s what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jay-Z\u2019s sports agency, Roc Nation, issued a separate statement that takes issue with the claim that Jay-Z stopped taking Jerry\u2019s calls. (Again, we\u2019ve edited it from the all-caps tweet.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2015, at the 21 Club, on a napkin, Jerry Jones, Juan Perez, Shawn \u2018Jay-Z\u2019 Carter, and Stephen Jones negotiated a five-year, $70 million deal, which included a $45 million guarantee and a $20 million signing bonus for Dez Bryant. At the time, it was the second-largest contract for a wide receiver in NFL history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe claim that Mr. Carter or Roc Nation representatives did not return a call from Jerry Jones is not only a false statement, but it\u2019s also a comical one<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Setting aside the question of how Jay-Z was directly negotiating NFL contracts without being licensed by the NFLPA to do so, the currently salient point is this. Jerry Jones, in trying to put out the fire arising from Parsons requesting a trade, may have accidentally turned the hose on a couple of hornets\u2019 nests.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll sit back and wait to see if he gets stung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent Jerry Jones word potato salad regarding his direct negotiations with linebacker Micah Parsons included a gratuitous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-42609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}