Jerry Jones reveals dressing like Santa Claus for Cowboys players before Christmas Day victory over Commanders

The Dallas Cowboys got the occupation done connected Christmas Day, and proprietor Jerry Jones credits his pre-game acquisition giving arsenic a crushed why.

The 83-year-old revealed successful a vigor interrogation that helium dressed arsenic Santa Claus and visited his players astatine their edifice connected Wednesday nighttime anterior to facing the Washington Commanders to walk retired immoderate presents and get his squad successful the vacation mood.

"I cognize this (team) got truthful overmuch retired of it, I’ll ne'er hide it," Jones said to 105.3 The Fan. "A batch of fun."

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Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones earlier a crippled against the Minnesota Vikings astatine AT&T Stadium connected Dec. 14, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

Dak Prescott and the Cowboys proceeded to instrumentality down the Commanders, 30-23, to expanse their rivalry bid this season. Unfortunately for Dallas, though, the triumph didn’t assistance them with the playoffs, arsenic they were already eliminated heading into the contest.

Jones didn’t divulge the presents helium passed retired to the team.

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The Cowboys are present 7-8-1 connected the season, which surely wasn’t what they had successful caput entering the season. They moved connected from caput manager Mike McCarthy aft past season, replacing him with violative coordinator Brian Schottenheimer successful his archetypal caput coaching gig successful the league.

The Cowboys’ offense, introducing caller moving backmost Javonte Williams and wide receiver George Pickens, has been 1 of the champion units successful the NFL, averaging 398.6 yards of discourtesy per crippled present aft the triumph connected Thursday. They besides mean 28.4 points per game.

The flaw successful astir games has been the deficiency of defense, which has fixed up the third-most yards per crippled successful the NFL this play (376.8) and 29.8 points per game.

But they were capable to clasp disconnected the Commanders’ discourtesy successful the end, arsenic seasoned Josh Johnson, starting successful spot of the injured Jayden Daniels and Marcus Mariota, started to get rolling successful the 2nd half. Prescott, who has been wealth each play for Dallas, was missing immoderate throws helium usually makes, but it helps erstwhile kicker Brandon Aubrey tin sound successful 3 points, it seems, whenever he’s remotely adjacent to tract extremity range.

Dallas Cowboys squad proprietor Jerry Jones gives a broadcast interrogation earlier the team's preseason NFL shot crippled against the Baltimore Ravens Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, successful Arlington, Texas.  (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

It was a bounce-back triumph pursuing a blowout by the Los Angeles Chargers astatine AT&T Stadium successful the team’s last location crippled of 2025.

Jones acknowledged the team’s rollercoaster season, but does find positives contempt what the grounds says.

"Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, perfectly we did. We each underachieved, really. The information we’re not successful the playoffs says that for you.

"I thought we’ve done immoderate things retired determination that we tin guardant with us, arsenic is ever the case, determination are immoderate affirmative things. The question is, tin we marque immoderate changes wherever we request to? That’d beryllium beauteous thorough and a batch of multiplication determination with the mode we played this year."

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The Cowboys volition beryllium looking for 1 much triumph successful their play finale against the New York Giants successful Week 18, but they should beryllium looking to what Jones discussed astir adjacent season.

A large question volition beryllium whether they volition resign Pickens, who volition beryllium a escaped cause successful March. It would bode good to look astatine antiaircraft escaped agents arsenic well.

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