The Dallas Cowboys saw its offensive line get destroyed last weekend by the Atlanta Falcons. This was due to, at least largely, the absence of talented tackle Tyron Smith. It was clear that the Cowboys missed his abilities. And yet, somehow, Jerry Jones believes the team will be just fine and dandy if Tyron Smith misses another outing.

“I’d like to hope that Tyron is back,” Jones told 105.3 The Fan in Dallas on Tuesday. “But I’ll assure you that we will have that, if Tyron is not back, we will personnel-wise as well as technique wise, we will do better.”

To be fair to his thoughts, Jerry Jones clearly believes the offensive line is an entire unit issue and not just one backup being singled out.

“I think that we didn’t, we’ve got a term we say, ‘block them up,’ which almost sounds trite,” Jones said. “We just did not, not only assess, but execute as we would like to. And I think Jason Witten said it the best. It was a total zeroing in on one player, but it was a team concern, or a total team production activity that created it. Blocking takes a lot of people and it takes trying to get more hats on them so to speak than they’ve got on defense. And we weren’t able to get it done.”

“We’ve assessed it pretty good, got a handle around technically what went wrong,” Jones said. “They play what we call a ‘wide nine’ technique, which basically puts those ends way outside, both of their defensive ends way outside. We don’t see that much. And we probably, on hindsight, will have probably alternate how we handle that if we had it to do over again.”

I like how Jones used “we” as if he's in the film room breaking down tape. Then again, would anyone be shocked if he were?