OXNARD, Calif.
On the final day of training camp in Southern California, headlines are typically swarming with 53-man roster projections, decisive position battles and — in the event of the Dallas Cowboys, as it seems every year — contract extension talks.
But on Wednesday, before the Cowboys’ final full practice in Oxnard before departing home for Frisco, a much heavier topic weighed in the brisk Ventura County morning air after a report revealed that team owner and general manager Jerry Jones overcame a 10-year battle fighting stage 4 cancer from 2010 to 2020.
It is a topic revealed in episode five of the upcoming Netflix docuseries , “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys.”
When asked about the topic to begin Wednesday’s press conference, head coach Brian Schottenheimer