The Ezekiel Elliott suspension is what sent a teetering NFL power share into a full-out civil war, ESPN.com reports in a lengthy piece on the state of the league.

And Cowboys owner Jerry Jones fired the first shot in emphatic fashion.

“I’m gonna come after you with everything I have,” Jones told NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after being alerted of Elliott’s six-game suspension for alleged domestic violence against his ex-girlfriend.

“If you think Bob Kraft came after you hard, Bob Kraft is a p—y compared to what I’m going to do.”

The latter was a reference to Deflategate and the Patriots owner’s anger at Goodell suspending Tom Brady for four games in the face of questionable assertions and dubious data.

The ESPN report spells out why the NFL was ripe for such a controversy. Owners had become deeply concerned with the army of executives Goodell hired in the wake of his botched handling of the Ray Rice suspension. The owners perceive them as a group of yes men and women, who have emboldened Goodell and diminished the owners’ say.

“The executives want to protect themselves by isolating Roger,” one owner told the site. “They don’t care if they burn the league down to keep their jobs.”

Perhaps the one under the most scrutiny is Lisa Friel, who mishandled the league’s punishment of Giants kicker Josh Brown, failing to acquire key facts that became public after the league had decided on a one-game suspension.

Jones and Friel squared off in league meetings in October 2016 when the former Manhattan prosecutor alerted him that the Elliott case would remain open.

“I’m saying this as an owner!” he reportedly yelled before being taken up to his room. “Your bread and butter is going to get both of us thrown out on the street!”

Jones still privately believed, based on promises by Goodell — which the league says were never made — that Elliott would never be suspended. When that happened, Goodell lost one of his key supporters and sent the league into anarchy.

Jones is trying to use his incredible power to impede Goodell’s extension, though one league executive says the contract is a mere distraction.

“Jerry’s message to Roger was ‘I run this league. You better get with it,'” a senior league executive told ESPN. “This is about power and control, not the contract. That’s all white noise.”

Goodell still has his owner support, led by the Falcons’ Arthur Blank, who heads the compensation committee, and an extension that will take him through the 2021 collective bargaining talks seems inevitable.

“This is not how we do things in the NFL,” Blank recently told Jones as tensions worsened and leaked out through the media.

The leaks haven’t stopped and the drama appears to have only just begun.