For months, Jerry Jones was quiet.
The COVID-19 pandemic rocked the NFL’s historically impervious offseason schedule. The stock market tanked on fear and a brief oil pricing war — hammering Jones’ energy company, Comstock Resources — but then rebounded aggressively under massive government stimulus. Social protest and a groundswell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement swept across parts of America, including prominent involvement from a handful of Dallas Cowboys players.
Inside it all, the NFL’s most lucrative franchise went about its business, making headlines with additions, subtractions and a prominent quarterback extension that never came to pass.