The Dallas Cowboys, the Netflix Doc, and Jerry Jones With Ed Werder

The Press Box

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Sports

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan and Joel start this Dallas Cowboys–centric show with their thoughts on Netflix’s ‘America’s Team’ documentary. They reminisce about the ’90s era of football and the media landscape then, discuss people’s affection for the Cowboys, and talk about why the documentary works. Next, Bryan and Joel welcome longtime reporter Ed Werder to discuss what it was like covering the Cowboys in the ’90s. They talk about how competitive the Cowboys beat was, how Jerry thought about reporters, and Werder's most memorable moment with Charles Haley (23:30). Finally, Bryan and Joel close the show with their reporting war stories about Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith (1:08:33). Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel Anderson Guest: Ed Werder Producer: Kyle Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.7	Hello, media consumers. Welcome to a very special edition of the press box. It's Brian Curtis. It's Joel
1:30.3	Anderson. It's producer Kyle Williams, who's sitting in for our own Kyle, Kyle, Kyle Crichton.
1:36.6	Joel, this is the first in a series of single topic podcasts we're going to do here at the
1:41.6	press box. And this particular episode is dedicated to the
1:46.0	Dallas Cowboys and their media machine. Have the Cowboys been in the news, Joel?
1:52.9	When are the Cowboys not in the news? This may be the better question, right? I mean, let's count
1:58.2	the ways. The Michael Parsons contract. Yep. The Netflix doc. I mean, let's count the ways. The Mike Parsons contract, the Netflix doc, I mean,
2:03.9	probably something Jerry Jones has said the last 20 minutes. It's just DAC or something going on
2:08.7	with DAC or something like that. I'm sure some sort of, he's insulted him in some sort of way.
2:13.6	Is Dak Prescott Elite asks first take in the A block once again.
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