Jerry Jones lost sleep over missing out on Paxton Lynch

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IRVING, Texas — Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones did not get much sleep after the first round of the draft.

He couldn’t get Paxton Lynch out of his head.

The Cowboys attempted to trade back into the first round to select Lynch, working through a number of trades only to see their final attempt with Seattle fall through when the Seahawks agreed to a deal with the Denver Broncos.

Missing out on QB Paxton Lynch was still eating at Jerry Jones a day later. Joe Robbins/Getty Images

“I got to bed about 3 thinking about the Lynch thing, got up at 6 and before the morning was over had talked to six people about how I messed it up,” Jones said Saturday. “I was still mad about it the next morning.”

The Cowboys offered Seattle their second- and third-round picks, but …

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