2025 is truly an enormous boom for the NFL teams financially. For the first time in history, all 32 teams are valued at more than $5 billion. Sitting atop the NFL is the Dallas Cowboys with $13 billion. But the owner and GM, Jerry Jones, is already onto his next money move. The 83-year-old is never satisfied!

Jones has found a $100 billion natural gas jackpot, which has become a major distraction. And with his NFL team in need of his full focus more than ever, the timing couldn’t be more complicated.

“There’s $100 billion in gas out there,” he said during a Washington Street Journal interview on October 29. “That’s why I’m talking to you on the phone, instead of trying to fix the Cowboys’ defense.”

Over the past few years, Jerry Jones has invested more than $1 billion in a Texas-based company called Comstock Resources, where he now owns about 71% of the shares. The company drills deep natural gas wells in East Texas, in an area known as the Western Haynesville. This region sits miles underground, with temperatures hotter than 400°F and extreme pressure levels. Earlier companies gave up trying to drill there, but Jones didn’t.

Thanks to his funding and bold strategy, Comstock has managed to drill dozens of successful wells, tapping into what Jones calls a “$100 billion present value” of natural gas. He says this is his best investment ever, even better than buying the Cowboys in 1989 for $140 million.

The Cowboys owner says he sees Comstock as the future of U.S. energy. While most oil and gas companies are playing it safe and cutting back on new projects, Comstock is going all in. It’s a risky approach, but Jones believes the project is worth the risk. He is so confident that he keeps buying more Comstock stock, even when prices fall. His current stake is worth around $3.6 billion. When gas prices hit record lows last year, he approved cutting the company’s dividend, then personally bought another $240 million worth of shares.

This year, Jones was honored with the Energy Workforce & Technology Council’s Platinum Award, recognizing his decades-long commitment to U.S. energy development. During the ceremony, he compared football to the oil and gas business, both requiring risk-taking, grit, teamwork, and determination.

But he is also uncertain about football right now.

Jerry Jones is confused about the right steps to improve the Cowboys’ defense

The Dallas Cowboys keep sinking. They lost 44-24 to the Denver Broncos, falling to 3-4-1 and dropping out of the NFC playoff race. Instead of getting better, their defense is only going downhill. While the trade deadline is just days away, Jones believes that one trade can not fix a shaky defense.

“I don’t know what’s realistic…Are we one player away on defense? I think we’re not, I think we’re more than that away, but what we’re closer to than it looks, in my mind, is executing better on defense,” he said.

Head coach Brian Schottenheimer and quarterback Dak Prescott also accepted responsibility. They admitted that the team must play and coach better and must show more consistency. They insisted the roster already has enough talent, but the players must perform to their potential.

With their next matchup against the Cardinals just a day before the trade deadline, do you think JJ will finally pull some strings and strengthen his defense?