Jerry Jones was widely criticized for the decision to hire Brian Schottenheimer and the process that led to the move. The Cowboys owner pushed back.

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.

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.

We don’t know and never will know how Brian would have fared if his last name was Smith instead of Schottenheimer. And that makes the new Dallas Cowboy football coach a risk.

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.

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.

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 Cowboys have retreated into their turtle shell, which continues to harden over the years and is now impacting every alligator-armed attempt to reach success. | From @KDDrummondNFL

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 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