Now that Jerry Jones is on to his latest experiment in the control group of coaches who might duplicate what Jimmy Johnson once did, you’ve got to concede a grudging respect for his scholarly-like discipline.

Stephen A. Smith has embraced needling the Dallas Cowboys and their fans as a recurring bit and the franchise has provided him ample opportunity to do so in recent years. The face of ESPN pushed quite hard for the Cowboys to hire Deion Sanders but Jerry Jones instead opted to go the very boring route with Brian Schottenheimer.

It’s been one heck of a week for Jerry Jones. The Cowboys’ owner had himself a day on Monday during Brian Schottenheimer’s introductory press conference when he began talking about “Schotty Shots” and noting that he got his hiring advice from Steve Spurrier — now he’s out here talking about glory holes for some reason.

During a post-press conference media scrum on Monday, Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones played one of his greatest hits. With a twist. “There’s a very low percentage of this that is smiles and gloryholes ,” Jones said. Jones originally coined the gem during training camp in 2012.

Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones pushed back hard on the notion that his decision to promote offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to be his next head coach was one made out of comfort.

Jones said after introducing Brian Schottenheimer as the Cowboys' head coach that he only talked with Sanders.

The first question was about why Jones hired Schottenheimer as head coach. Ten minutes of emotional rambling later, the tone was set, and it felt familiar to anyone who's followed the Cowboys in recent decades.

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.

Jerry Jones recently clarified speculation surrounding an offseason phone call with Deion Sanders, asserting that their conversation was personal and unrelated

For the second time in three seasons, the Dallas Cowboys are sitting on the couch while the Philadelphia Eagles, one of their NFC East division rivals, prepare to play in the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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.