'Dangling Participles': Jerry Jones not aligned with Cowboys fans' angst, 'That's not my life'

Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones held their annual training camp opener press conference on Thursday, a few days late due to the elder Jones’ paternity suit court dates. After speaking to the finality of that, the top turned to actual Dallas Cowboys business.

In speaking about the team’s offseason following their devastating loss to Green Bay in the playoffs, Jones evoked how at home he is with so much swirling around him.

Quotes are paraphrased in some parts.

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As I sit here today almost 35 years, I see several faces that I saw.. but after 35 years, the one thing that’s for sure is ambiguity. Just the nature of what being a part of sports and part of football is.it’s very ambiguous.

The reality is that you are continually dealing with much unfinished business. There’s almost no way to segment parts of the running and the evolving of the team from one year to the next. You can have specific agreements with all the right terms, but can still have non execution.. we’ve had people with contracts that haven’t come to camp. That’s what happens. You can’t be and do what I have the opportunity to do, own the Cowboys and run the NFL.

It is more ambiguity involved than I could ever imagine. There’s always going to be many dangling participles as part of this business. There will never be a time with the NFL when we don’t have a lot going on.

I know we’ve been talking about what kind of offseason we’ve had. But the fact is we’ve had 14 Pro Bowlers, 12 All Pros on this field right now. We’ve got an outstanding team. That part works, we’ve got a lot of ambiguity on the team. I’ve got ambiguity everywhere…

Maybe the best thing God ever gave me was a tolerance for ambiguity. That’s what you have, it frustrates you, it frustrates fans… that’s not in my life.