Cowboys owner Jerry Jones apparently isn’t the only NFL owner who doesn’t want Commissioner Roger Goodell to have his contract extended. Not yet, anyway. According to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, over half of NFL owners want to wait on extending Goodell’s deal until the whole situation is a little calmer and under control.

Someone (presumably from within the group of owners who support Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in his fight against the Compensation Committee) has told Scott Wapner of CNBC that more than half of all owners want to wait to extend Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract, “if for no other reason than they think the timing doing it now would be a P.R. disaster.”

This doesn’t mean that they don’t want to execute a new contract with Goodell. It means only that they don’t want to do it right now, since doing it right now would make them seem “tone deaf.”

Jones has been on the offensive over the last few days on preventing the Compensation Committee from awarding Goodell a new contract. The fact that there are 16 or more owners in favor of at least holding off those talks should be considered a bit of a win for the Cowboys owner.

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However, Florio notes that the six-member Compensation Committee has no obligation to bend to the will of those owners unless 24 or more owners band together and unite for the cause.

The National Football League is in no really hurry to get this done. Goodell's current contract still has roughly 18 months left on it.