It has been nearly two years since Jerry Jones delivered that message, but it stands as the last meaningful point he delivered about his Dallas Cowboys and the topic of player protests. He said it then, so it continues to resonate now: Cowboys players will stand because Jones expects them to stand. Every other team in the league could open the 2020 season with players kneeling against the police brutality that killed George Floyd, but that won’t include Dallas — unless Jones says otherwise.
So we wait. We wait and we wonder where this is going with Dallas because there is no dodging this reality: Jerry Jones is a powerful bellwether for how deep acceptance and change goes in the NFL.