Ezekiel Elliott and his agent found found Jerry Jones’ “Zeke who?” joke “disrespectful.”
Despite his feelings towards the comments, the Dallas Cowboys owner doesn’t think he needs to clear the air with his star running back.
“No. None. No. Not at all,” Jones said. “We know each other. We have been in the battles with each other kind of like Michael [Irvin] trying to roll back and clear something out with me. What makes this awkward is because we are in negotiations, and so you don’t tell everything because you know you are negotiating.
“Anything I say is a negotiation.”
Jones made it clear that he has “earned the right to joke about Zeke.”
The longtime Cowboys owner was a big supporter of Zeke during his battle with the NFL back in 2017, which included paying a $2 million de facto fine to the league.
The Cowboys haven’t seen Elliott since the end of minicamp in June. He has been working out own his own, mostly in Cabo.
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Both sides are just hoping to have a deal done by September 8th.
“Yes, I’m optimistic that we can get Zeke’s deal done,” Jones said before adding, “I don’t know that. I don’t know that. But sure, I don’t mean to be trite, but the whole premise is based on getting everybody under contract playing, so that’s what we’re trying to do here. Zeke’s under contract.”
“I don’t want to sound like it’s not important for him to be here. I think it is important for him to be here or we wouldn’t be having everybody be here, everybody getting some work in,” Jones said. “Everything about this is important. Everybody does understand it. It’s just a question of seeing if it works.
“But you know, we’re going to play football one way or the other. That’s the way it works.”
