Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday that he wants to find a compromise with his players regarding protests during the national anthem this season and would prefer to implement a policy that actually isn’t all too different than what he and the team did back in 2017.
Jones wants the team to kneel before the Anthem and stand during the playing of the song, as he stated during an interview with 105.3 The Fan.
“That’s fair. That, at the end of the day, was a recognition that we supported our players,” said Jones. “I knelt with our players, as you know, on a personal basis. But as a team, we all knelt together before the anthem and then we stood for the anthem to recognize what its symbol is to America. I thought that was good. That’s the kind of thing we’ll be looking to see if we can implement.”
Here’s that viral moment back in 2017:
Jones’ comments came two weeks after he told reporters he expects the Cowboys to display “grace” regarding the anthem.
Defensive tackle Dontari Poe, who signed with the team in free agency this offseason, has already gone on record to state that he plans to kneel during the anthem and intends to discuss the matter with Jones.
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“I will have visited with him more than likely on an individual basis,” Jones said Tuesday. “All of that will come to play, and we’ll have a plan to recognize what he’s trying to do and the way he’s trying to do it. And on the other hand be sensitive to what we’re about. We’re out there to ask the fans to follow, to be attentive to us. We’re well aware of the issue and well aware of where Dallas Cowboys fans are on it. All of that will be put in the hopper. We’ll see how we handle it.”
