Jerry Jones - 'Very fair' to blame me for Cowboys' 1-2 start - ESPN

FRISCO, Texas — Who's to blame for the Dallas Cowboys' 1-2 start?

According to a poll from WFAA-TV in Dallas, the answer is pretty clear among more than 70% of the voters: owner and general manager Jerry Jones.

«That's very fair,» Jones said Tuesday on the «Shan and RJ» show on 105.3 The Fan. «It's well known that no decision is ultimately made here for what I either have acquiesced [to] or approved it. That's very fair. How could you think otherwise, whether it be who's out there coaching, whether it be who's out there playing, whether it be the stadium you're walking into? Whatever it is here, that's the way it is.

»Now, let me just say this. Do I have a huge amount of input in making those decisions? When they've done their homework, they're very influential input to me and we've got a lot of people in the Dallas Cowboys that have done their input."

Jones has taken the brunt of the criticism when things have gone poorly for the Cowboys since becoming the owner and general manager in 1989. Since the playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers in January, fan frustration has been high with the Super Bowl drought now at 28 seasons. In the Cowboys' first two home games against the New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Ravens, the fans of those teams came in large numbers and drowned out Cowboys fans.

«I guess I got baptized when I first came to Dallas and bought the Cowboys and we won one football game,» Jones said on The Fan. We had made changes, changed out the only coach for 29 years (Tom Landry) and we got huge criticism and the kind that would make what you're seeing now child's play.… You're dealing with anything but a lot of emotion about our team. It never ceases to surprise me both from the state of Texas in the case of the