Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Wants To Help Johnny Manziel Get Life Back On Track

Ever since Johnny Manziel started having problems with the Cleveland Browns, there were experts, fans and league officials who believed that he would end up signing with the Dallas Cowboys this offseason if the Browns were to release him. Well, the Browns have released him, but he has yet to sign with the Cowboys and Jerry Jones was asked about the situation on Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings.

“The overwhelming response and the overwhelming mentality is for him, if we’re involved in any way, to help and encourage him to get it together, to get his issue improved because those issues, in my mind, not talent, are why he is free today,” via ESPN.com. “It’s those issues, and those issues are the overriding consideration here, and how and what basis that those can be dealt with and addressed.”

Manziel is currently considered untouchable by NFL teams as they are awaiting news on his pending domestic assault case. Once news comes from the grand jury on what will happen legally, the NFL will likely review the case for any sort of suspension. Until there’s more clarity, Manziel won’t be signing with an NFL team despite his new agent Drew Rosenhaus claiming that “several” teams are interested.

.@NFL review of Johnny Manziel’s conduct is in a holding pattern while his case is sent to the grand jury. Forces everything to hit pause.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 22, 2016

Despite his love for Manziel at Texas A&M, Jones says his focus is solely on helping Manziel get his life back on track and has nothing to do with football.

“I would in any way offer to help him work to be where we all are rooting for him to be, which is having a successful life and football career,” he said. “I would do that. You say, ‘Well, is that because of football?’ Well, I might not have been aware of this, had it not been for football. I’m aware of it.

“With that, with me, comes a motivation, if it’s appropriate within the rules or within the guidelines of the NFL, if we can be of help in the promise of being a part of the NFL through the Cowboys, I certainly look to that. But … I don’t even dare, right now, go into picturing him in a training camp or an OTA or him in a ballgame. You don’t go there.”

Maybe Jones truly just wants to help Manziel figure things out, or maybe he thinks this is the way to go to ensure the Cowboys are first in line when Manziel is ready to return to the NFL. Either way, good for Jones and the Cowboys.