Jerry Jones rips Congress’ ‘politically biased’ Dan Snyder report

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones blasted the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s final report on Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder and the NFL as “politically biased,” criticizing the investigation during an interview with a Dallas radio station. 

The Oversight committee’s long-awaited report found that Snyder oversaw a “culture of fear” at the Commanders and tried to obstruct multiple investigations into his team’s workplace misconduct. The congressional panel also took aim at the league by accusing them of failing to hand over 40,000 documents related to the NFL’s initial probe into Snyder.

“This report doesn’t even come out if the Republicans were in (control of) Congress,” Jones told 105.3 The Fan. “It’s that stupid. My point is there are biases all the way through. There are stories behind the stories. The facts are that Mr. Snyder’s minority partners really went out a long way to try and make him sell. He ended up buying them out, but a lot of this is that.”  

Jones’ comments about Snyder’s minority partners refer to the embattled billionaire’s contentious dispute with his now-former partners. Snyder accused longtime investors Fred Smith, Robert Rothman and Dwight Schar of running a misinformation campaign against him, but eventually bought them out for $875 million to give his family complete control of the franchise. 

Jones, too, has continued to publicly back Snyder in spite of an ESPN report that said the two men’s relationship had soured. In that October report, ESPN reported that Snyder has “badmouthed” Jones and that the owner has “already lost Jerry” amid Snyder’s scandals — allegations that Snyder’s lawyers strongly denied. 

House Republicans — who will take control of the Oversight committee in January because of gains in the midterms— have also criticized the committee’s investigation into Snyder, the Commanders and the NFL as a waste of government resources. 

“A lot of the testimony — I was involved firsthand. I was among the handful of owners that looked at all of the transcripts, that looked at all of the messages, that looked at all of the data,” Jones said in his radio interview Friday. “The attorney is on a campaign, the woman attorney, to stop having settlements when you have workplace settlements. That’s another issue, but that’s part of why this has the front that it has. And so there’s a lot more there.” 

The Oversight report, released Thursday following a nearly 14-month probe, made reference to the Cowboys’ $2.4 million settlement that resolved misconduct allegations against a longtime executive as an example of the NFL “failing to take workplace misconduct seriously across the league.”