Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is known for a lot of things, and rocking the boat is most certainly one of them. The latest example of this, at least reportedly, is that Jones is leading the charge in trying to stall the contract extension of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

ESPN was the first to report, and it is a whopper.

Jerry Jones isn't by his lonesome in wanting Roger Goodell's extension talks stalled. Apparently, at the foundation of turning a formality into a big deal is due to all the polarizing issues happening under Goodell's watch.

“You don't get to have this many messes over the years like Roger has had and survive it,” one owner said during the call, according to the ESPN report.

There are some owners who did appear on Goodell's side.

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“There is, and was, something that is an issue,” said a league source who was not on the conference call and didn't learn about it until Saturday night. “I'd be very surprised about wanting to change Roger. I'd be shocked about that.”

Then again, one source told ESPN that the supporters of Goodell might be shocked to find out about the group he doesn't really want him there:

“Maybe Arthur [Blank, the head of the compensation committee] and that committee think they're on track,” an owner said about Goodell's extension talks. “But they have a lot more resistance than they counted on — and maybe they don't know how the resistance is growing as we speak.”

All in all, this is just a mess. Roger Goodell, who is essentially an extension of the owners (he technically works for them), might end up being the fall guy for a good old boy network who — well, at least some of whom — are willing to hurl him under the bus for the sake of optics.