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.

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.

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

Many Cowboys fans were hoping owner jerry Jones would look outside the franchise for their next head coach... but Brian Schottenheimer was introduced yesterday as the Cowboys' new head coach.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has never shied away from theatrics (literally, he was an actor in a recent Landman episode ), but his answer for why the team promoted Brian Schottenheimer to be the team’s new head coach might be one of the strangest, most riveting moments of his ownership tenure.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was blunt as always when assessing his hire of Brian Schottenheimer as his next head coach during an introductory press conference on Monday.

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.

Though it dominated the news cycle for quite some time after they split with Mike McCarthy, Deion Sanders was never actually a serious candidate for the Dallas Cowboys job.

Jones admits his biggest priority in the hiring process was to ensure continuity in the offense, and that superseded the possibility there was a better head coach to be hired.

Analyzing reactions to Brian Schottenheimer's hire after prior Deion Sanders rumors, and Jerry Jones's Cowboys strategies. Will Schottenheimer find success?

The Cowboys could have used this as a "sickness-and-cure'' admission to demonstrate how "Schotty'' is going to end the 29-year drought. Instead, with two wagging fingers, Stephen Jones suggested that there really is no 29-year drought at all.