Jerry Jones was notably silent as soccer season approached with the NFL engulfed within the nation’s bigger race reckoning.
Because the league shifted its stance to match public sentiment on participant protest, the usually outspoken Dallas Cowboys proprietor had nothing to say publicly on the matter.
Now the season has began. A Cowboy has knelt. And Jones is again to his commonly scheduled media rounds. On Tuesday he addressed Sunday night time’s pregame towards the Los Angeles Rams that noticed Dallas defensive tackle Dontari Poe take a knee throughout the nationwide anthem.
Jones lauds workforce response to Poe
Jones, who famously vowed in 2018 that Cowboys gamers would all the time stand for the anthem with a “toe on the line” didn’t criticize Poe whereas making his weekly radio appearance on 105.three The Fan in Dallas.
“I assumed our gamers, I assumed they gave it sensitivity,” Jones stated when requested about his workforce’s response to Poe. “They confirmed respect to Poe’s resolution. I believe they definitely did … present a sensitivity to our followers as ateam workforce. … All in all, I assumed our workforce was very actual and really real in the best way it approached it.”
Jones didn’t endorse nor condemn Poe’s resolution and moved on to a different subject when no followup query was requested.
Jerry Jones averted taking a public stance on Dontari Poe’s resolution to kneel. (Tom Pennington/Getty Pictures)
Poe was the one Cowboys participant to take a knee. The newly signed Cowboy vowed to do so throughout coaching camp and adopted by way of along with his plan at the same time as none of his Cowboys teammates joined him. Defensive finish Aldon Smith and defensive deal with Antwaun Woods stood by Poe throughout his protest, every with a hand on his shoulder.
Jones’ in-game response
NBC cameras centered on Jones as Poe knelt.
Poe’s response
Poe informed reporters that a few of his teammates tried to speak him out of kneeling alone, however in the long run he felt supported in his protest towards police brutality and racial injustice.
“I had already informed teammates and coaches that I used to be going to it,” Poe stated, per the Fort Worth Star Telegram. “That’s the place my head was at. My teammates have been telling me that they didn’t need me to do it on my own, alone, as a result of we’re a workforce. However I had informed them my thoughts was already made up and I felt this fashion.
“And in the event that they didn’t, don’t do it. Don’t do it until your coronary heart is there like mine was. I admire my guys for sticking with me, for being behind me.”
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