Insider Creates Confusion About Cowboys and Sark Move

FRISCO - In my first year as a young beat writer covering the Dallas Cowboys, my newspaper gave me the assignment of creating an NFL-wide mock draft. All the teams, of course. Conventional stuff.

I wasn't trying to be difficult (OK, maybe a little) when I replied, "Boss, I just got here. I don't even know yet who the Cowboys - my team - will draft. How do you expect me to know what the other 31 teams are going to do?''

In other words, I didn't like the pretense of it all. And I still don't ... which is why "I don't know'' is an answer I am comfortable giving when on live radio or on TV or doing whatever it is I'm doing when interacting with fans.

Three simple, honest words.

Which brings us to the coverage of the rumor of Steve Sarkisian jumping from the University of Texas to come to The Star to work for Jerry Jones' Cowboys.

SI's Albert Breer was asked a question about this. His answer to reader "Louis''?

"Louis, I don’t think you can call it dumb ... If Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is looking to jump to the NFL, he has a lot of company among his peers. ... (But) the best college jobs - the true blueblood jobs - are better than many NFL jobs because of how they pay and support their coaches and their resources are endless. Sarkisian has one of those, so I don’t think he’d leave for just any NFL job. 

But I get why going to a place such as Dallas (for all the problems there, it’s still the Cowboys) could lure him away.''

So ... is that a "yes''? 

Or is that a "no''?

Breer wrote a bunch of words here without answering the question.

"It's not dumb. If he wants to leave. He has a blue-blood job. But maybe he could be lured.''

What did we learn here? How has the ball been advanced? Is Sark interested in Dallas? Is Jerry interested in Sark?

I don't know yet. And after reading this, if I'm a fan, I'm more confused than I was before.

Read these pages and you will see I can tell you some stuff about Kellen Moore and Deion Sanders and Jason Witten and Leslie Frazier and Robert Saleh and Kliff Kingsbury and Lincoln Riley.

But … on Sark?

Pro Tip based on my 40 years as an NFL beat writer: "I don't know'' aren't dirty words.