FRISCO -- Let's see, in the past 48 hours the headlines involving America's Team have included a victimized DJ, dognapped pit bull and foot race in a strip club parking lot at 3 a.m.
Team owner Jerry Jones reiterated Tuesday, after removing his sunglasses with icy blue lenses, that he likes the world's eyes on his football club. But this is all a little bizarre. Even for the Cowboys.
With the possibility of a suspension for star running back Ezekiel Elliott looming and the Texas heat blazing, it is high time the Cowboys reconvene for training camp in Southern California. The charter plane takes off Saturday for Point Mugu Naval Air Station in Ventura County. That's only four nights away -- what could possibly happen between now and then?
It's this time of year -- save the quarterbacks and rookies who gather together Wednesday at The Star for pre-camp practices -- when players are unencumbered by work schedules. That makes team bosses wary.
"We talk about it as ownership," Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said, "that this little dead period from the time they are finished with minicamps until the time they start training camp is a tough time because they are not on any type of schedule, they're not accountable to work, and they have their time off."
Perhaps it has always been this way, but thanks to the voyeuristic access provided by SnapChat, Twitter, TMZ , Instagram and iPhone cameras, we know more about players' offseason activities than ever before.
The most pressing situation that most directly impacts Dallas' plans of repeating as winners of the NFC East and finally advancing in the playoffs involves Elliott. The 2016 NFL rushing leader was involved, a source said, in an incident Sunday night at Uptown nightclub Clutch that left area DJ D Train, also known as Daryl Ibeneme, with a broken nose on his 30th birthday. Elliott has not been named as a suspect in the aggravated assault investigation by Dallas police, but the incident comes amid an ongoing NFL investigation into whether he violated its personal conduct policy.
It's not clear if Ibeneme is participating in the investigation -- Dallas police were trying to reach him Tuesday via Twitter
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