NFL Podcast: How will Jerry Jones respond to protests?
Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson discuss how all eyes will focus on Jerry Jones and the Cowboys as the NFL season and 2020 presidential election draws near.
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TEREZ PAYLOR: There's going to definitely be attention placed on Jerry Jones as well. Certainly NFL's-- I mean, look, he owns the NFL's richest franchisee. He is probably the biggest celebrity of the owners.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yes.
TEREZ PAYLOR: I'm actually really interested to see what he does. Because, you know, I think it's pretty clear where he's kind of been on that in the past. Mainly because of where they play, right? But what-- it's going to be interesting to see if A, Cowboys, like, do it, if they kneel.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Right.
TEREZ PAYLOR: I mean, that's a whole thing that's going to play out. Look, I just say don't worry about the kneeling but this is going to be a topic.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Right.
CHARLES ROBINSON: But people are going to talk about it. You know, I think Jerry Jones is in an interesting spot because, you know, there's never been more public sentiment toward the players side in this deal. And I mean, there is a real push to keep raising awareness about these causes. And you know, I just think it's an interesting situation that Jerry will be in. Don't you?
CHARLES ROBINSON: Look, Jerry Jones is a bellwether. He is. OK. We can talk about Roger all we want. We can talk about the owners collectively. But at the end of the day, there's no hiding Jerry Jones' relationship with the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Who's repeatedly made this a political issue for himself. He's going to run his 2020 election and this will be part of the platform.
TEREZ PAYLOR: Oh, yeah.
CHARLES ROBINSON: When he goes out to his rallies and he starts doing all these things, he's going to repeat that 2016, 2017 formula again. OK. There's no hiding what Jerry's relationship is with Donald Trump. And I don't think Jerry-- he's not really trying to hide that.
TEREZ PAYLOR: No, he's not.
CHARLES ROBINSON: You know, he's said that Donald's spoken to him, like all these things. And so he becomes the bellwether. And what I mean by that is, if you really want to know broadly where the NFL is at on this, if you really want to know if things have changed, you're going to look at-- and I'm going to end up writing this-- you're going to end up looking at Jerry Jones and you're going to go, OK, now if things have changed. Either you're going to tell me that
Jerry Jones is going to say to his players "you know what, I hear you, you're heard." What you say is important, is important to me. And I am going to sit here and I'm going to repeat what Roger said, we support peaceful protests. I see the difference between the flag and what you're trying to say here. And if you want to kneel, by all means kneel. If no players kneel, everyone's going to look at the Cowboys and go, it's the same as it was in 2017, nothing's changed.
