Cowboys' Jerry Jones Reacts to Arrest with Tone-Deaf Joke
FRISCO - There is not much that is funny about the arrest of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Sam Williams, this one about a felony possession of a controlled substance and about possession of weapons and about a history of poor behavioral decisions by the team's 2022 second-round pick in the NFL Draft.
So what is Cowboys owner Jerry Jones laughing about?
"He is maturing,'' Jones said in reflecting on yet another Williams brush with the law. "He is. What was he going, 66 miles per hour (when he was arrested this weekend)? So, he’s 34 miles an hour less this year. 98 to 66, that’s improvement!''
The recent arrest - which did not initially include the speed at which Williams' car was traveling when he was pulled over for a collection of offenses that in Texas could result in jail time - according to Jones seemingly occurred after Williams was driving 66 miles per hour.
This follows an incident last December in which Williams crashed his car and was cited for misdemeanor reckless driving. Williams initially suggested that he was driving at a normal speed in his new vehicle when he was hit. But police - who issued an arrest warrant for him at the time - said he was driving nearly 100 miles per hour in a 55 MPH zone ... and that he was weaving through traffic when the crash occurred.
Williams also experienced behavioral trouble at Ole Miss, as he was arrested and charged with sexual battery by the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department in Oxford in 2020. All charges were eventually dropped, and Jones said that before the Cowboys used a high pick on him that the team was "satisfied'' with the background checks done on him.
But that doesn't mean that the allegations - then and now - are innocuous, or the proper format for tone-deaf jokes from the often-jovial owner, who suggested that he believes Williams might avoid NFL suspension in this case.
“First of all, I’m seeing that he is, which is more often the case than not, this sounds a little hollow, but he is maturing. And he is,'' Jones said. "(From) 98 to 66, that’s improvement. We’ll keep working. We’ll get it down.”
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