Despite not playing a game in Week 7, the Dallas Cowboys being America’s team are still a part of discussions across the footballing community. With analysis still ongoing about Jerry Jones and his mismanagement of this season’s roster, the conversations have not yet reached any apparent problems in Mike McCarthy and his coaching staff or Dak Prescott‘s play.

The 82-year-old owner though has been defiant about his lack of offseason moves so far. He even tried to suggest that not signing a proven running back was borne out of the need to play according to the system.

But analysts have not stopped at calling him out for making an asinine excuse not signing the otherworldly ground pounder. Now a week after of 105.3 The Fan, Jones was back with another interesting take.

We’re designing bad plays; we are designing bad concepts. And the facts are that there’s some of that, but there’s also some of execution.

Jerry Jones said while speaking on 105.3 The Fan

This statement might not be a direct hit at Mike McCarthy. But when talking about bad plays and concepts, it was abundantly clear who the intended recipient was. This is Jerry Jones’ first shot at his head coach after that drubbing by the Detroit Lions.

But it surely comes as a surprise as Dak Prescott had made it clear that the lack of a running game has affected their passing game. So, for the owner to point to coaching issues indicates he is not willing to accept that his inability to sign a proven running back has hindered his team.