{"id":663057,"date":"2026-01-08T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:54:10","slug":"cowboys-jerry-jones-on-impact-of-losing-jourdan-lewis-to-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663057\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Jerry Jones on impact of losing Jourdan Lewis to Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys&#8217; owner Jerry Jones discussed the impact of losing CB Jourdan Lewis in free agency to the Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcdd [tap to unfold]<\/p>\n<p>for the first time since losing him to 2025 free agency, Jerry Jones openly lamented the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Cowboys<\/a> loss of Jourdan Lewis \u2014 saying it created shockwaves they didn\u2019t expect:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost the nickel, and it hurt us more than we thought. The nickel was a serious loss\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6xjN7OJ0k\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/R6xjN7OJ0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrik [No C] Walker (@VoiceOfTheStar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoiceOfTheStar\/status\/2008985483288740289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys very much missed now <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> cornerback Jourdan Lewis this past season.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t take my word for it. Here is what the Cowboys&#8217; Jerry Jones had to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost the nickel, and it hurt us more than we thought,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;The nickel was a serious loss for us. It made a big difference not having [Lewis] out there. And, so, we have got to get better there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The number one thing was we thought \u2014when we lost our nickel last year \u2014 we could Bland in and out, and get him going back and forth. He wasn&#8217;t quite as suited to getting inside and being a nickel as we thought he would be. \u201cSo that was a little planning that didn&#8217;t work out on the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that was a little planning that didn&#8217;t work out on the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaguars<\/a> will be without Lewis for the postseason after he was placed on injured reserve following the Denver game with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>However, very quickly upon Lewis&#8217; arrival in Jacksonville, he made an impact both on and off the field, emerging as one of the team leaders.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Lewis has held opponents to just 7.6 yards per catch while recording two interceptions and four pass breakups.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond his production at cornerback and the high-level communicator he is pre-snap to get the secondary aligned, Lewis quickly emerged as one of the leaders of this team.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars signed Lewis this past offseason to a three-year, $30 million deal.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; owner Jerry Jones discussed the impact of losing CB Jourdan Lewis in free agency to the Jaguars.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[247,265,7,20842,212,125,2401,213,5899,1120,5900,330,88,6,35196,245,338,9,266],"class_list":["post-663057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-football","tag-hub","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-jourdan","tag-jourdan-lewis","tag-lewis","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115857933174005743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}