Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins has made his feelings clear in the past about the league's current National Anthem controversy and is now placing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on blast.

Jenkins said he is thankful to play for the Eagles because he has always felt that owner Jeffery Lurie has had players' backs, something that he doesn't think Cowboys players feel.

“Jeffrey’s been very supportive of us from the beginning,” Jenkins said via Zack Rosenblatt of NJ.com. “I don’t see Jeffrey as a bully like Jerry Jones is. Lucky for me, I don’t play for the Cowboys, nor would I want to.

Jones has made it clear that players on the Cowboys would be standing for the National Anthem and Jones's son, Stephen Jones, reiterated those comments, making the statement that players check their personal feelings at the door when they put on the Cowboys uniform.

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Jenkins thinks comments like those are unfortunate and it's disappointing that players aren't allowed to have individual voices in some organizations.

“It’s unfortunate that you have owners like him that use his position to intimidate and intentionally thwart even the idea of his players thinking individually or having a voice about issue that effect their communities daily. It’s unfortunate.”

The NFL was trying to get this issue to go away and find a way to please both sides of the aisle, but it appears that is going to be very hard to do. It seems most have a strong feeling one way or another and pleasing both sides are going to be near impossible.