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Jerry Jones: No one can be Cowboys' GM 'any better than I can'

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has no plans of giving up his general manager duties any time soon.

In an interview with Clarence E. Hill Jr. of DLLS, Jones made it clear that he still sees himself as the best person for the job.

"I've done it all. So I have an ordinate amount of confidence that, fuck, if anybody can figure out how to get this shit done, I can figure out how to get it done," the 81-year-old said. "I've been there every which way from Sunday, and have I busted my ass a bunch ... So, hell no, there's nobody that could fucking come in here and do all the contracts ... and be a GM any better than I can."

Jones expressed confidence that his children, Charlotte Jones, Stephen Jones, and Jerry Jones Jr., could take over for him but said that would only happen "if I get hit by a car out here tonight."

"I fucking have had hundreds of (bad days)," Jones said. "I'm emotional about it sometimes. Well, running this thing, that's who I want to make the last call. Now, when I can't fucking think, when I'm old, and I can't even do it ... but I'm a long way from not being able to do it, too.

"The reason I don't let somebody else be the GM is because I don't have anybody that I will let do it to actually do it right. And they're gonna have to come to me and because I know where it is that you're going to pay for it."

Jones has served as the Cowboys' general manager since purchasing the franchise in 1989.

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