JERRY JONES WANTS THE BALL TO GO TO T.O.

If Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens wants the ball more, he’ll be happy to know that he has support in his quest from owner Jerry Jones. Jones said on his local radio show that the Cowboys’ offense needs to do all it can to get the ball in Owens’ hands. “He’s a terrific playmaker, and we want to get him the ball,” Jones said on 1310 The Ticket, per the Dallas Morning News. “We’ll overly try to get him the ball. There’s no question about that. We should. It ought to open things up for other places on the offense.” It’s hard to figure out what, exactly, Jones means when he says the Cowboys should “overly try” to get Owens the ball: Try so hard that they’re forcing him the ball when he’s not open? But Jones doesn’t think the Cowboys need to “overly try” to get the ball to running backs Felix Jones and Marion Barber. Despite criticism from many fans and members of the media who said the Cowboys made a tactical error in handing off to Barber just eight times on Sunday and Jones not at all, Jerry Jones says that was simply a result of the defense the Redskins were playing. “Candidly, I think they did a good job with their fronts, their defensive fronts,” Jones said. “They were physical in that area. That gave us some problems there, too.”