It’s the time of unknowns for the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL in general.

The season is over, and things are in the semi-limbo that occupies the time between the final gun of the Super Bowl and the time when teams can openly deal with potential outside free agents.

That leaves many of us paging rapidly through anything about the Cowboys and crying out for input.

That’s one reason why we just saw a rather ridiculous story about Jimmy Johnson being on some kind of advisory board for the team flare up.

Those of us who report, write, and podcast about the team can get a bit too eager for something to use as content.

Johnson was just using a bit of humor to describe how the rift has been healed between him and Jerry Jones since his woefully overdue induction into the Ring of Honor.

There is no advisory board, just Jones’ personal network of connections that he listens to. Sometimes.

That didn’t stop some rather poorly considered reporting about his remarks on a radio show.

Hopefully Jones is listening to smart people, because this is when the team has to firm up their strategy for dealing with the next big objective of the soon to start NFL year – how to construct the roster.

They have mostly taken care of their first one, replacing Dan Quinn with Mike Zimmer and getting a good start on restaffing the defensive coaching positions.

That has been cussed and discussed extensively. So what should they do for their roster building strategy?