Cowboys owner Jerry Jones confirmed Thursday the four-game suspension of Demarcus Lawrence, the team's 2015 sack leader.
He also hopes the suspension will be reduced to two games.
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While the NFL has yet to officially announce the suspension, Lawrence will appeal the four-game ban for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. Jones is optimistic the NFL will cut Lawrence's suspension in half, like the league did for cornerback Orlando Scandrick in 2014.
"It’s under appeal and very similar to (Scandrick) — that's the situation there that it was reduced from four to two, but we wouldn’t want to be presumptuous enough," Jones said Thursday morning on 105.