I Think Ian Rapoport Is Trying To Bully Jerry Jones Into Signing Earl Thomas
So this tweet hit the ol' timeline this morning and I admittedly let out a small sigh of relief as a Giants fan that the Cowboys would be passing on yet another safety they had long been linked to after watching Jamal Adams head to Seattle. Earl Thomas may not be the force he was in Seattle and has recently been shown the door by two of the better franchises in the NFL over the last decade or so.
But Earl still can play pretty well (when he's not trying to tackle Derrick Henry) and a guy with this type of response to being caught in an orgy with his brother and some chicks could be exactly what Dem Cowboys need to bring back those early 90s America's Team vibez.
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However, it looks like the sheriff of the Cowboys took GREAT exception to Rapsheet's report that included what felt like a taunting crying emoji.
Does this look like the face of a man that lets some NFL #insider push him around the ring?
I don't think so.
However, Rapoport fired back with this response:
Reminder that Ian Rapoport survived being fired by one of the few men that can match Jerry's intensity and ego*
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*Despite not actually working for that man
Where does this all leave us? With two of the biggest names in NFL media dug in the sand as a future Hall of Famer dangles in free agency like a briefcase in a ladder match. I imagine Stephen Jones, Mike McCarthy, and the rest of the Cowboys front office running around this morning with sirens going off, worried that Stephen's dad is about to go Full Jerruh and blow a whole bunch of that Dak money to sign Earl Thomas just to prove a point to a reporter that probably loves keeping the Cowboys in the news cycle to get those retweets, likes, and NFL Network hits every hour on the hour. And even though it probably would hurt the Giants for the short term, I kinda wanna see the old Jerry Jones do whatever he wants like he did before he got neutered by his son. So give Earl the bag Jerry and prove to that pipsqueak and the rest of the planet just who runs the place formerly known as Jerry's World! (We don't call it that anymore because its clear you don't run shit in Big D anymore. Pussy.).