Ex-QB Plummer regrets calling Jones 'a--hole', glad it got attention for cause

Former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer made headlines when he called Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones a "billionaire asshole" following Jones' comments that it's "absurd" to connect playing football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Now, Plummer says he regrets using the pejorative but won't back down from his overall point.

"I was in a passionate moment at that time... sometimes I might not think everything through clearly," Plummer told FOX Sports 910 in Phoenix. "It came out, I said it, I'll own it, I'll stand by it. I don't know Jerry Jones personally enough to call him that, which is probably why I shouldn't have used that word. But, for him to say those things about the absurdity of a link between CTE and brain trauma - it points to a guy who's trying to protect his investment or is completely out of touch with reality."

Plummer has been an advocate of medical marijuana as a treatment for the pain caused by football, as well as other physical and mental ailments. He suggested he's happy his choice of words garnered his ideas some attention.

"I probably didn't do well by calling him what I did, but hey it's what happened at that moment and people are talking about it which is a great thing. Ultimately we want to save the game, we don't want to fight the NFL over this, we just want to help keep the game that we all love to watch - and I loved to play - Keep it alive."