Jerry Jones explains why he won't make adjustments to the stadium

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Owner and General Manager Jerry Jones explains that he thinks the way the stadium is built is indeed an advantage for the Cowboys. He says he will not be making any changes because the players should be used to it as it has been that way for years.

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00:00The biggest topic, the biggest topic they're asking about of course is, is the sunlight

00:21coming through the stadium. That was a big topic after the game. CD lamb believed he

00:25missed out on a touchdown on Sunday because that in fact is exact quote afterwards was

00:28yes. A thousand percent. When asked if he'd be in favor of curtains being installed, what

00:33do you have to say to that?

00:35Well, I say that, uh, uh, this falls in that category we've just talking about. Uh, there's

00:42a lot to talk about. I don't believe anybody living believes that, uh, the, that game,

00:52uh, that, uh, what we need to work on. And that's what I meant being incredulous when

00:58somebody asked me about that, of all of the things that we all need to improve, that

01:04is way down the list of improvement. Uh, all I can say is that stadium, uh, was built to

01:14feel like it's outdoors when you're indoors and it was built to have sunlight coming in

01:22and every way that you could put it out there as though it were open air yet still being

01:28inside. It's the largest air conditioned space and the world, the stadium, uh, it has over

01:373 million cubic feet of air conditioned space. Uh, my biggest thought when we were building

01:46it was don't have it not look like it's outdoors, make it look like it's outdoors. And so all

01:54of the things that are a part of that out there is a concept as though you were sitting

01:58out there with no roof, no doors, no anything. And you're playing in the elements. Every

02:06venue has certain things that at certain ways and times in the contest can, uh, create

02:16an advantage. Uh, that really goes on the category of home field advantage. And so usually,

02:24and that's the case with us, that if there's a field or in the case, it's your home field,

02:30which it is of the Dallas Cowboys. It should be an advantage to the home team. So I don't

02:36want to adjust it for one reason is because it is an advantage to us. Over the years,

02:43we've played 52 games that have anything to do with the time of year when that sun could

02:49be there, obviously eliminating night games and games where the sun is not, uh, wouldn't

02:56be. And Bob, we've had 52 games. We've, we've won the majority of it, but more importantly,

03:02anything we know where, uh, in basketball, we know where the dead spots are on the floor.

03:07That's our advantage. That should be our advantage. We get to play there more and we get to have

03:13it as a badge. It has been an advantage for us to know where the sun is. I don't want

03:18to change that.

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