Late Sunday night, after the Dallas Cowboys had wrapped up head coaching interviews with Mike McCarthy and Marvin Lewis, the silence of Jerry Jones was delivering an answer nobody expected.
Top-level college coaches were chewing on nothing but questions when it came to the Dallas opening. Do I have a shot? What’s going on there? Who is on their list? Meanwhile, the cream of the crop in NFL coordinators — guys who would be at the top of interview agendas — had nothing to relay but a collective shrug.
For all intents and purposes, the Cowboys’ search felt like a process that was ending almost as quickly as it was beginning.