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After buying into decades of counterfeit hopes, Jerry Jones may finally have his Cowboys title team

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jerry Jones was at a loss.

Over the decades, the good teams and Septembers tend to bleed into each other. It’s usually the endings that are most memorable for most team owners — and certainly all of them that would presume to be a general manager as well. NFL failure leaves a bookmark in the brain, whereas success fades into oblivion unless it’s memorialized with a Lombardi Trophy.

So it’s understandable that when Jones was asked Sunday night whether he could remember a more authoritative start to a season than this one, his memory failed him.