The Dallas Cowboys are in a bad, bad way. Ten games into their 2024 NFL season, the Cowboys are 3-7. Star quarterback Dak Prescott is out for the year after hamstring surgery and wasn’t great when he did play. Dallas’ defense ranks among the worst in the league and isn’t particularly good at any one thing. And lame-duck head coach Mike McCarthy, who is in the last year of his contract, seems to have lost the locker room.

Everybody can see it. That is, everybody except team owner Jerry Jones. Speaking after Monday night’s 34-10 home loss to the Houston Texans, Jones seemingly denied all of the things that everybody else knows about his team.

“That losing the team stuff, that’s so overblown,” Jones said via ESPN. “These guys are so, first of all, they’re natural competitors. Secondly, they’re so proud of the fact that they are professional and disappointed in maybe the way they executed the play, but that’s not anything that’s brother or first cousin to give up. … Everybody’s certainly disappointed, but that’s a big difference in not knowing that you got to put the foot in front of the other to go.”

Jerry Jones Has Spent The Entire Season In Denial About The Dallas Cowboys

Jones being detached without reality isn’t anything new. If anything, it’s a growing theme of late. After yet another game Dallas’ AT&T Stadium was marred by sunlight blinding players, the 82-year-old aggressively refused to make any sort of change.

“Well, let’s tear the d— stadium down and build another one?” Jones said sarcastically. “Are you kidding me?”

Cowboys star wide receiver CeeDee Lamb made note of the issues that the sunlight causes the team on a routine basis. But Jones claimed otherwise.

“Of all the things that we need to improve, that is way down the list of improvement,” he stated. “All I can say is that stadium was built to feel like you’re outdoors. And it was built to have sunlight come in every way that you could put it out there as though it were open air, yet still being inside.

“It’s the largest air-conditioned space in the world, the stadium. It has over three million cubic feet of air-conditioned space. My biggest thought when we were building it was don’t have it not look like it’s outdoors. Make it look like it was outdoors.”

Sure, Jerry. But your team still stinks. Dallas will make it 30 years without reaching an NFC Championship Game this season. Jones is the only common denominator in that span. But don’t anybody dare suggest that he’s a problem. After all, nobody can do a better job running the Dallas Cowboys than he can.