VALLEY RANCH - Adam "Pacman" Jones will not face punishment from the Dallas Cowboys after an altercation with a team security guard at a Dallas hotel late Tuesday night, said team owner Jerry Jones Thursday.

"The two men had a disagreement, they resolved it and that was that," he said.

Jones said the cornerback was in his car, leaving the Joule Hotel by 11:15 p.m. Adam Jones, his girlfriend, uncle and the bodyguard were all there.

"This was a personal thing," Jones said. "There is not anything here to discipline him as a player."

Jones said the player and bodyguard, off-duty police officer Tommy Jones, have become close. Over the last several months, the two have been paired together, he said.

According to Jones, Adam Jones and the bodyguard were joking around when things briefly escalated.

"These guys were joking," he said. "Right up until they went into the restroom."

At that time, Jones said a brief incident that "ended quickly" occurred.

During the altercation, there was minimal damage made to an item on the vanity, he said. Jones said the hotel viewed the damage as incidental.

Tommy Jones will remain on the security team for Adam Jones, Jerry Jones said.

But given Adam Jones' background, Jones said things like this cannot happen.

"I am very disappointed that we're having to deal with this," he said.

Before the cornerback joined the team, the owner said he "built up a reservoir of doubt."

"He had no benefit of the doubt left," he said.

Jones said he is under intense scrutiny because of his history in a dozen previous incidents involving police, including six arrests and a season-long league suspension -- all since the cornerback entered the NFL in 2005.

"He has no room to wiggle," Jones said. "He's on a high wire without a net."

Jones said he has a list "several pages" long of places where players like Adam Jones are encouraged to stay away from.

"We have clear lines," he said.

Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips said Adam Jones apologized to team for the distraction. Phillips then underscored Jones' importance to the team.

"He's been active every game for us," he said. "He's here early every day ... He does all the things on the field that we want done."

Jones was at the team's practice Thursday afternoon and Phillips said he expects him to play Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals.

Phillips, who was the first Cowboys coach or administrator to talk publically about the incident, said his job is getting the team ready on the football field.

"What I'm trying to do is get the team to focus," he said.

Late Thursday morning, nose tackle Tank Johnson, who has been suspended by the league previously for off-the-field conduct, described the incident as "not a big deal."

Johnson would not directly answer if he was at the hotel Tuesday night to attend a party, but did say he was not a witness to the altercation.

He chided reporters, who he blamed for blowing the entire thing out of proportion.

"I'm disappointed that you come over here every day, kissing our [expletive] everyday and then all of a sudden you write bad stuff about our family," he told one reporter. "I'm disappointed in you."

Jerry Jones, though, said he wanted to focus on how to prevent anything like this from happening again.

"I'm not frustrated," he said of Adam Jones. "He has agreed to do everything that I've ever asked him to do."

An interesting note is that Jones said he manages Adam Jones’ money, essentially giving his star player an allowance.

The NFL is evaluating the situation. It has not been announced when or if the league will take any action.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, in an interview on ESPN radio, said he was not happy that Jones was again involved in an issue where police were called.

"I guess I would tell you I'm disappointed we're even discussing this at this point and time," Goodell said.

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