Cowboys owner Jerry Jones finally may being seeing the light. Either than or he's been beaten down so much that he's about to concede defeat.
Jones' support of embattled defensive end Greg Hardy finally seems to be eroding, according to ESPN.
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In an interview with the team's flagship network, 105.3 FM The Fan earlier this week, Jones talked about the management still evaluating Hardy on an off the field and backing off from earlier comments that Dallas was interested in a long-term relationship with the former Panther.
"Greg knows what's expected and nobody is more aware of the scrutiny and nobody is more aware, now ever more so, of what we expect of him," Jones said. "The good news is we go forward. We see if we get what's expected of him, which I fully anticipate you would get. But we see how and what's expected of him and we go from there.
"We don't, and you know this, just the nature of this one, we don't as a practice, discuss detail of extending or not extending. I'll give an indication, but that's about it. So we'll leave it for that. I have no reason to think that Greg won't do what's expected of him throughout the year."
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Jones' latest comments come a couple of days after another ESPN report revealed that Jones and Hardy had a sit-down over Hardy's recent behavior last week, including missing a team meeting on the day of that sit-down.
"I will say this: Over the last three or four weeks, I would hate to see anybody who had more pressure on him than Hardy," Jones said. "There is a genuine effort for him to rehab what is the perception of him.
"But there is no second chance in regards to the issue of domestic violence. None."
Yet, the Cowboys did give Hardy a second chance, signing him to a minimum-dollar contract after he missed the 2014 season with Carolina after being found guilty of domestic abuse against an former girlfriend. Jones had been supportive of Hardy since the day he signed, going so far as to call Hardy "a leader" on the team.
ESPN recounted Jones' fervor over his off-season acquisition, despite the sordid details of his domestic abuse case, to a Dallas radio station, as recently as a month ago.
"When we initially signed, talked to him, asked him to join the team, it was not only with the idea of the short-term but a long-term purview," Jones said. "He's, relatively speaking, a young player, and he certainly has the kinds of skills and impact that we want to look to the future with the Cowboys."
A future that now looks much cloudier.
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