Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed that he did speak with Deion Sanders in a phone call this offseason, but that the conversation wasn’t about the team’s

I’m not giving up my fight. You’re gonna ride by here again in another year or two if this thing don’t work out again, and my song will still be singing like a young Diana Ross: Deion! All the way.'' - Michael Irvin on the Cowboys not hiring coach Sanders.

As part of the search for the franchise's next head coach, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, in a move that immediately vaulted the team to the top of the sports news cycle, interviewed Pro Football Hall of Famer and current Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders for the vacancy.

In order to move forward and see where your Cowboys might be headed years from now, we must first look back. The local team was actually just one of four to unveil a new coach Monday, but their announcement was the only one that came with an intermission.

The Dallas Cowboys introduced Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach on Monday. While Schottenheimer injected a semblance of confidence into fans with his calculated answers, Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones tarnished all of it in the hour-plus press conference.

The Dallas Cowboys' decision to hire Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach remains puzzling, and team ownership hasn't done much to inspire the fanbase with the hire. Schottenheimer's introductory press conference on Monday was dominated with weird quotes and rants from Jerry and Stephen Jones,