The Dallas Cowboys are still reeling from their recent trade of franchise cornerstone Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for a package centered around draft compensation. While Dallas did get two potentially valuable first round picks in return, there was still a slew of vitriol directed at team owner Jerry Jones for trading the best player on the Cowboys just days before the season is set to begin.
Over the last couple of months, Parsons had been publicly feuding with the Cowboys, culminating in his trade request early last month. There were reports that Jones had attempted to negotiate with Parsons alone, without his agent in attendance, among other bizarre speculation.
Recently, Parsons' agent, David Mulugheta, spoke on what he thinks went wrong between the two sides.
“I'm not sure how this turned out the way it did. We were open to negotiating and reached out multiple times… For some reason Jerry came out of that conversation and believed he had an agreement and wasn't open to negotiating further,” said Mulugheta on ESPN, per Joseph Hoyt of the Dallas Morning News on X, formerly Twitter.
He also spoke on the infamous meeting in March between Jones and Parsons.
“At no point did Micah believe he was negotiating a contract,” he claimed.
An embarrassment for the Cowboys
Months after Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in what immediately became the worst trade in NBA history, Dallas sports fans then saw their city's other best player sent out just as he enters the prime years of his career.
While the return for Parsons was undoubtedly a better haul than what the Mavericks got for Doncic, it still signals a lack of direction for a Cowboys team that had made some seemingly win-now moves earlier in the offseason, including bringing in former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, among others.
Had Parsons been in uniform, the Cowboys may have had enough to at least make some noise in a crowded NFC playoff race.
In any case, the Cowboys are now just two days away from kicking off their 2025 season against the Philadelphia Eagles.
