Stephen A. Smith has embraced needling the Dallas Cowboys and their fans as a recurring bit and the franchise has provided him ample opportunity to do so in recent years. The face of ESPN pushed quite hard for the Cowboys to hire Deion Sanders but Jerry Jones instead opted to go the very boring route with Brian Schottenheimer.

Stephen A. Smith goes off on Jerry Jones for staying in his comfort zone by hiring Brian Schottenheimer as the new head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

Jerry Jones no longer has Mike McCarthy, but he has his replacement. After kicking the tires on a few candidates, Jones chose to elevate Cowboys offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to become the next coach of the team.

Jones has been making mistakes left, right, and center lately. His most recent head coaching hire, Brian Schottenheimer, was not well-received by the greater NFL world, but especially not by the Cowboys faithful, as Dominique Foxworth pointed out.

Stephen A. Smith was on ‘First Take,’ criticizing Jerry Jones’ hiring of Brian Schottenehimer as Dallas Cowboys head coach.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was one of many sports icons who donated to the Donald Trump Inauguration Committee

After a 65-minute news conference in which Jones-speak more than doubled the efforts of new head coach Brian Schottenheimer — no stranger to the filibuster himself —Jerry and Stephen did their best to exhaust smaller groups of media with a few answers that felt direct but many more that rambled out of bounds.

This family has put us all in purgatory for nearly three decades. Until they divest themselves from the team, we need to put them through as much hell as we can generate. This would get Jerry Jones’ attention much more effectively than a boycott that does no economic damage.

Jerry Jones both admitted he’s taking a major risk and delivered a message to critics on Monday sitting beside his new Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer.