Ah, draft season. It's the time when Cowboys owner Jerry Jones can wonder aloud one minute about how drafting a quarterback this year could be "problematic," and the next mention that he's heading out to watch Cal quarterback Jared Goff's workout this weekend. Goff is projected as one of the top picks and could be gone even before the Cowboys pick at No. 4.

Two weeks ahead of the draft, Jones shared his thoughts Thursday on a number of issues before the Nancy Lieberman Charities Dream Ball at the Dallas Omni.

On possibly taking a quarterback in the draft: "I don't know. I don't know. I can give you a real scenario where it can be real problematic if we do what we want to do and that's have [Tony] Romo play fairly injury free and uninterrupted for the next three, four, five years. Let's just go three, four five. If he plays uninterrupted then you've got a problem if you've picked quarterback this year because you don't know what you got really at a time when he may be entering the markets. There's an example of that this year and so that's one of the things you weigh if you're in our shoes about whether to get interested in a quarterback this early in Romo's career. It can be distorted by the fact that he has had some injury two of the last three years but it's something that I don't have the answer to right now. I'm really hoping that really just the dynamics of the draft and the dynamics of the opportunity will help make this decision."

On going to see Goff: "We're doing a quarterback workout this weekend so we're going to be very hard at it here. ...He operates in a pretty place. I like to have that excuse to go out there. No seriously, we are going to do a workout this weekend. It'll be Goff. Out there before their spring game."

On the Rams moving up for the No. 1 pick: "I was surprised but knowing the organization I'm not surprised. They're really showing their colors, step out there and go to Los Angeles and then when you look at how they're setting their sails and it doesn't surprise me at all with what they're looking for in the future. It goes to show you certainly need to be thinking about your moves way in advance of the draft if you're going to go this early. I applaud 'em. It sounds like they got they wanted. Then you've got to look at Tennessee and see all those draft picks. I didn't know Herschel Walker was still around."

How does it affect the Cowboys?: "I don't want to make any assumptions, but yeah, it does impact because that kind of movement up ahead of you in a lot of different ways it took a lot of the consideration out of the marketplace. If you think draft picks are consideration than it is. It certainly made a difference below that No. 1 pick as to what might be available trading or in terms of making a decision with a player. It took two commodities out. It took picks, it took a player."

Could the Cowboys consider picking another lineman (if Ole Miss' Laremy Tunsil is now available): "It doesn't look logical. But sometimes it can become just so obvious as to the value that I wouldn't rule out anything relative to an offensive lineman. But that's probably where we're strongest right now and that doesn't look like the best use of a draft pick at any high level but sometimes that is just overshadowed."