Ryan Clark believes Jerry Jones's track record as an owner shows he hasn't prioritized elevating Black people to positions of influence, which is more concerning than the photo.

“I do think Jerry Jones's track record shows that Jerry Jones, at least intentionally, has not been about elevating black people to the positions of power and influence. And I think to me, that is more concerning than the picture.”

Channing Crowder believes Jerry Jones's hiring practices are driven by the business objective of winning games rather than a genuine effort to elevate Black people.

“So do does that make you like black people, accept black people, want to raise up black people because you hire them to play a sport? In my mind, it's not.”

Fred Taylor views the photograph of Jerry Jones as a teenager as an example of media clickbait and doesn't believe it justifies calling him a racist.

“I think a lot of people are reaching. You know, I think it's it's press. It's uh it's attention. They got still got to find a way in this digital era to sell newspapers, right? So, I mean, um I don't think much of it. It's It's great clickbait.”