{"id":119900,"date":"2025-11-12T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=119900"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:30:07","slug":"%f0%9f%94%a5cowboys-in-shock-jerry-jones-breaks-his-silence-on-marshawn-kneelands-tragic-death-insiders-say-his-statement-carries-unexpected-hints-about-the-teams-next-moves-and-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=119900","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd25COWBOYS IN SHOCK: Jerry Jones breaks his silence on Marshawn Kneeland\u2019s tragic death, insiders say his statement carries unexpected hints about the team\u2019s next moves, and the full context has left the NFL community stunned and searching for answers\u2026ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2235391414-e1762920522754.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2235391414-e1762920522754.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2235391414-e1762920522754.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2235391414-e1762920522754.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys' Jerry Jones Makes First Statement on Marshawn Kneeland's Death\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Sam Hodde\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Jones was &#8220;devastated&#8221; by the news of Marshan Kneeland&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys are mourning the loss of Marshawn Kneeland, and Jerry Jones is planning a special way to honor the late Cowboys defensive end.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys owner and general manager opened up about Kneeland\u2019s death for the first time on his weekly radio appearance on KRLD on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kneeland, of course, died of what was reported as a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a police chase in Dallas on Thursday. The 24-year-old had spent two seasons in Dallas, after it chose him in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys were on a bye this weekend but returned to practice Tuesday ahead of their upcoming game against the Raiders on Monday night at Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n<h2>Jerry Jones Was \u2018Devastated\u2019 By The Death Of Marshawn Kneeland<\/h2>\n<p>Jones had a one-word answer when asked about his reaction to the Kneeland news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevastated,\u201d Jones said. \u201cJust hard to believe the content that was on the other phone in the middle of the night when we all got the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones said the Cowboys will honor Kneeland by wearing t-shirts for warmups for their next two games, on the road against the Las Vegas Raiders and at home against the Philadelphia Eagles. He also said they will don a helmet decal acknowledging him as well, while noting the Cowboys players and staff will have to grapple with their grief the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe all are having to share the sorrow, all are having to share the different ways or different things that come through your mind,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt\u2019s not light that as a teammate, Marshawn touched everybody in many different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe very definition of team is we love each other, we rely on each other. That\u2019s the ethos of what a team is about. Everybody expects that this is a rough game, it takes some real mental toughness to play the game, but in fact there\u2019s a lot of love for each other there that is shared in unique ways, and you get to know each other pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Brian Schottenheimer Is Helping The Cowboys\u2019 Grieving Process<\/h2>\n<p>Losing a teammate midseason is going to have an impact on the Cowboys. Luckily, Jones said Dallas has an asset at dealing with this in coach Brian Schottenheimer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchotty does have a realism about him because he simply was born into it in terms of being around anything unique about a football team,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI think we all have unfettered feelings about the people we love, people we work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kneeland became the latest Cowboys player to lose his life midseason \u2014 one of a handful since Jones took over the team in 1989. But Jones also acknowledged he is soul searching amid this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just a time when you acknowledge that there\u2019s no answers,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt makes you want to live life to the fullest, it makes you want to look for the very best in what we have for each other, and in some way make some sense out of these times.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pat Pickens is an experienced sports writer and media personality who has written for outlets like NHL.com, the Associated Press, the New York Times and USA Today. He covers the NFL, NBA, NHL and NBA as a breaking news contributor at Heavy. More about Pat Pickens<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Cowboys<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboys are grieving, and with owner\/general manager Jerry Jones opened up about the loss of defensive end Marshawn Kneeland last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":119912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udd25COWBOYS IN SHOCK: Jerry Jones breaks his silence on Marshawn Kneeland\u2019s tragic death, insiders say his statement carries unexpected hints about the team\u2019s next moves, and the full context has left the NFL community stunned and searching for answers\u2026ll - 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