ESPN\u2019s Troy Aikman has had plenty to say recently about his uncertain professional future. On Thursday, he acknowledged that he may have said too much.<\/p>\n
Via Brandon Contes of Awful Announcing, Aikman expressed some regret during a Thursday appearance on 96.7 The Ticket in Dallas regarding comments about potentially working for the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last thing that I want is \u2014 I was answering a question, and I think it\u2019s really unfair to Jerry<\/a> that he then has to answer these questions,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cAs far as, \u2018Hey, would you bring Troy back, or would you have a role for him?\u2019 I mean there\u2019s no real good answer that he can give.\u201d<\/p>\n Aikman said he raised the issue with Jones in Philadelphia on Monday night, where Aikman called the game between the Eagles and the Cowboys.<\/p>\n \u201cWe briefly touched on it just because I felt that maybe I backed him into a corner that he didn\u2019t deserve to be backed into,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t ask for it. And so, we\u2019re clear on that. He totally understood, and yet, he was very complimentary if something like that were to ever take place with the idea that we\u2019re not having those conversations at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n Aikman is in an awkward spot of his own. He senses that ESPN doesn\u2019t want to bring him back next year. He pegs his chances of having a job in TV next year at \u201c50-50<\/a>.\u201d Part of his own personal coping mechanism seems to be talking about the fact that he feels his 25-year broadcasting career slipping through his fingers.<\/p>\n Aikman now realizes that, in recently talking about possibly working for the Cowboys<\/a>, he has created a scenario in which Jones will be asked about Aikman possibly working for the Cowboys. Which happened on Tuesday<\/a>, given that Jones does two radio spots of his own every week on 105.3 The Fan.<\/p>\n Still, Aikman\u2019s latest comments are all part of the dance aimed at potentially laying the foundation for Aikman, who was and by all indications still is working for the Dolphins, potentially joining forces with Jerry in an effort to finally put together a team that can possibly get back to the NFC Championship, for the first time since 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Troy Aikman has had plenty to say recently about his uncertain professional future. On Thursday, he acknowledged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-899619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}