{"id":961297,"date":"2026-11-07T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/961297\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:02:14","slug":"in-defending-his-willingness-to-spend-jerry-jones-may-have-admitted-to-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/961297\/","title":{"rendered":"In defending his willingness to spend, Jerry Jones may have admitted to tampering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jerry-jones-scrambles-to-rectify-his-comments-about-coaching-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tried to reverse<\/a> the perception\/reality that he deliberately underspends on coaches. His explanation regarding the willingness to spend included an important admission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been trying to lure very successful coaches away from the teams they were on,\u201d Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he was referring to college coaches (or high-school coaches), that\u2019s tampering. Period. End of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>It could be false \u2014 an effort to bolster the idea that, yes, he\u2019s willing to spend. Still, the effort to put out the frugality fire he started on Tuesday by ridiculously claiming <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jerry-jones-claims-incorrectly-that-theres-no-correlation-between-coaching-pay-and-winning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">there\u2019s no correlation<\/a> between coaching pay and winning included a nonchalant concession that he has tried to pry NFL coaches away from their current teams, in blatant violation of the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Will the NFL look into this one? Probably not. Because the league office 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones tried to reverse the perception\/reality that he deliberately underspends on coaches. His&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-961297","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\/961297","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=961297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}