The news came out in an awkward way, as Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was patched into a conference call to announce DeMarcus Lawrence’s new contract. No follow-up questions were asked about Jones’s location and why he was there, so it flew under the radar as Dallas celebrated getting a big piece of team business done.
But the news that Jones was in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a collective bargaining session, along with a handful of other owners and almost the entire executive committee of the NFLPA, shouldn’t have flown under the radar. I’m told the parties spent roughly five hours with each other in a hotel attached to Minneapolis-St.