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Getty Images The NFL’s owners will get together later this month, and they’ll revisit the proposal from the Chiefs to guarantee a possession for the team that kicks off to start overtime, even if the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown. Cowboys COO Stephen Jones, a member of the...

Getty Images Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has made it clear that he expects the team to be better in 2019 than it was in 2018. Cowboys COO Stephen Jones feels the same way. Appearing Thursday on the #PFTPM podcast, Stephen Jones agreed with Jerry’s assessment, and Stephen addressed the question...

Someday, Ezekiel Elliott will no longer play for the Cowboys. Could that someday come sooner than anyone expects? Crazy as it sounds, it’s really not crazy to think about whether the Cowboys are thinking about applying the DeMarco Murray approach to Elliott, chewing him up, spitting him out...

Getty Images We learned early this week that the Cowboys had agreed to terms with undrafted free agent offensive lineman Larry Allen Jr. and the team has now announced agreements with 12 other free agents to go with the son of one of their all-time greats. The Cowboys note that the contracts...

Getty Images There was a time not so long ago that Jerry Jones’ Cowboys built their offensive line through free agency and low(er)-round draft picks. Since 2011, though, the Cowboys have invested heavily in their offensive line in the draft and in long-term contracts for those first-round draft...

Getty Images There was a lot of time to discuss what the Cowboys might do with their first pick in the 2019 draft because they didn’t make that selection until the end of the second round and a lot of the discussion about their plans focused on the safety position. Dallas went in a different...

Getty Images The Cowboys traded for Robert Quinn after the NFL suspended Randy Gregory indefinitely. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has said Gregory’s status didn’t affect the Cowboys’ pursuit of Quinn. Perhaps the team’s acquisition of Quinn says more about where Taco Charlton is. The former...

Getty Images Running back wouldn’t seem to be the Cowboys’ big need in this year’s draft, seeing as they have Ezekiel Elliott. But the Cowboys actually drafted two running backs, Tony Pollard in the fourth round and Mike Weber in the seventh. And Cowboys COO Stephen Jones had very high praise...

Getty Images Getting hit with a hard rubber projectile would certainly put a damper on an evening of entertainment. However, Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was waiting in the wings to lift some spirits. At Monday night’s Game Three of the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs between...

Getty Images Twenty five years ago, the Cowboys used a second-round pick on some offensive lineman from some place named Sonoma State. The guy’s name was Larry Allen, and since he ended up in the Hall of Fame, it’s easy to say it worked out. They’re giving it another shot this week. The team...

Getty Images Long after the NFL cut ties with Greg Hardy, the UFC (with help from corporate partner ESPN) is attempting to turn him into a cage fighting star. On Saturday night he got his first official win. The win was a flimsy excuse for a “fight,” as the UFC fed Hardy a newcomer named...

Getty Images When Emmitt Smith wanted a new contract in 1993, the Cowboys drafted Derrick Lassic in the fourth round. Smith held out, and with Lassic as the starting running back, the Cowboys began the season 0-2 before giving Smith what he wanted. In 1995, the Cowboys used the 46th overall...

The Cowboys have had a first-round pick every year since 2009 when they traded their first-rounder as part of the deal with Detroit for receiver Roy Williams. They don’t have one this year, either, because of a trade for a receiver. The Cowboys, as executive vice president Stephen Jones has...

Getty Images The Cowboys didn’t have a first-round choice, having traded it to the Raiders as part of the deal for Amari Cooper. They will make their first selection at No. 58 tonight. The Cowboys don’t hide their interest. Only once since 2005 have the Cowboys drafted a player with their...

Getty Images Receiver Randall Cobb had never played anywhere else except Green Bay, spending the first eight years of his career there. He signed a one-year, $5 million deal with Dallas in the offseason. He had a free agency check list, which included playing for a team with a chance to win it...

Getty Images When defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli and defensive passing game coordinator Kris Richard showed up in the Cowboys’ war room, it was obvious the direction the team was going with its first draft choice. Dallas, which didn’t have a first-round pick, had safeties Taylor Rapp...

Getty Images A bit like Sy Sperling with Hair Club, Jaylon Smith is not only a cryotherapy client, but he’s also an investor. Smith, the Cowboys linebacker who suffered a horrible knee injury in his last college football game but eventually recovered well enough that he started all 16 games...

Getty Images Tom Brady has worn a No. 12 Patriots jersey for all 19 seasons of his career, going on 20. Yet, fans don’t ever seem to get enough of Brady. For the second consecutive year, the Patriots quarterback led the NFL in sales of officially licensed player merchandise. The National...

Getty Images Jason Witten retired after the 2017 season. He returned after the 2018 season. Witten turns 37 next month and hasn’t played in 16 months, but after two months in the offseason program, the Cowboys tight end is confident he can contribute again. “I think there’s some gas in the...

Getty Images Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said last week he would rather have Amari Cooper AND a first-round pick. But what turned out to be the 27th overall choice is what it cost for the Cowboys to get the receiver from the Raiders. Make no mistake, the Cowboys would do the trade all over...