After a 65-minute news conference in which Jones-speak more than doubled the efforts of new head coach Brian Schottenheimer — no stranger to the filibuster himself —Jerry and Stephen did their best to exhaust smaller groups of media with a few answers that felt direct but many more that rambled out of bounds.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones went to great lengths to show Adam Schefter how confident he is in Brian Schottenheimer.

Here’s hoping Schotty is more successful than most of his predecessors in Jerry’s great experiment. We’ll see. Like the rest, he’ll need a lot of luck. He’ll also need to be a lot better than his GM. The good news is it’s a low bar. That’s also the bad news.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has never shied away from theatrics (literally, he was an actor in a recent Landman episode ), but his answer for why the team promoted Brian Schottenheimer to be the team’s new head coach might be one of the strangest, most riveting moments of his ownership tenure.

Jerry Jones was insistent about his risk-taking track record, but he will need to add to it as soon as this offseason to help his new head coach.

The first question was about why Jones hired Schottenheimer as head coach. Ten minutes of emotional rambling later, the tone was set, and it felt familiar to anyone who's followed the Cowboys in recent decades.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones acknowledged he ventured off the beaten path a bit when he tabbed Brian Schottenheimer as the team's next head coach.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was blunt as always when assessing his hire of Brian Schottenheimer as his next head coach during an introductory press conference on Monday.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has heard the talk. He’s heard the critics say he no longer takes risks and that the decision to hire Brian Schottenheimer as t

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Now that Jerry Jones is on to his latest experiment in the control group of coaches who might duplicate what Jimmy Johnson once did, you’ve got to concede a grudging respect for his scholarly-like discipline.