Jones brushes off reported rift with Snyder

Though a communicative published by ESPN connected Thursday signaled a rift betwixt longtime confidants Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder, the Cowboys proprietor brushed disconnected the reporting.

"Anything successful that was quality to me,'' Jones said during his play Dallas vigor appearance. "I don't person those kinds of problems.''

In ESPN's report, 1 proprietor was told by Snyder straight that helium "has dirt" connected Jones," according to a squad source. While Jones historically has been 1 of Snyder's closest allies, helium precocious told confidants that helium "might not beryllium able" to support the Washington Commanders proprietor immoderate longer, a root told ESPN.

Cowboys spokesperson Jim Wilkinson declined remark to The Associated Press astir the article.

Snyder's presumption is not connected the docket to beryllium voted connected astatine the adjacent owners gathering Tuesday successful New York, and there's nary crushed to judge -- arsenic of yet -- that determination are the 24 indispensable votes successful favour of removing him. Jones and his power would explicate that.

Jones said helium has not heard of NFL owners wanting to oust Snyder.

While pointing retired "owners are not earthy allies," Jones made it wide helium and Snyder are the objection to the rule.

"I've got a agelong narration with Dan,'' Jones said connected 105.3 The Fan. "It's surely a competitory 1 connected the tract and 1 that is simply a portion of the NFL."

When Snyder bought the Washington squad successful 1999, Jones had owned the Cowboys for a decade. Familiar with the interior workings of the league, Jones took Snyder nether his helping implicit the archetypal fewer seasons.

They sat adjacent to each different astatine NFL meetings, and their relationship grew from there. In boardrooms, astatine times it became Snyder and Jones against their NFC East rivals: John Mara of the New York Giants and Jeffrey Lurie of the Philadelphia Eagles.

That was surely the lawsuit successful 2012 erstwhile Washington and Dallas were each punished for wage headdress circumvention and Mara said helium "thought the penalties imposed were proper." Told of those comments, Jones defended himself and Snyder by saying: "That's John's opinion. That's not my opinion."

Away from football, Snyder and Jones person taken vacations unneurotic with their wives and families. They adjacent filmed a Papa John's Pizza commercialized unneurotic successful 2010 astatine Cowboys Stadium, their earthy banter a model into the Snyder-Jones dynamic that has been prevalent down the scenes for rather immoderate time.

Becoming friends successful that benignant of occupation is not normal, Jones acknowledged Friday.

"They conscionable are not due to the fact that of the competitory facet and what it means to idiosyncratic owners to vie and correspond those assorted NFL teams," helium said. "It's not a earthy concern astatine all. but that inactive doesn't mean you don't person a batch of respect for owners, and I do."