With the season on the cusp of beginning, the Dallas Cowboys’ trade of Micah Parsons made an Eagles player happy. And Parsons wished things could have been different. Perhaps they could have been as the Cowboys reportedly offered Parsons more guaranteed money than the Packers. But there was a catch.
Sources insist the Cowboys offered more guaranteed money than Parsons wound up getting from the Packers, according to ESPN.
“Though the exact terms aren't known, Cowboys sources insist they offered more guaranteed money than the $136 million Parsons would get from Green Bay,” Jeremy Fowler and Don Van Natta Jr. wrote. “Albeit spread across a five-year extension, not the four-year extension the Packers would make.”
“It was north of $150 million,” the source said.
Cowboys moving on without LB Micah Parsons
Owner Jerry Jones apparently tried to sneak a fastball by Parsons by meeting with him without his agent present. This has been a common practice for the Cowboys, according to ESPN.
“The Cowboys had been known to conduct contract talks without players' agents present — a practice known around the league as “hotboxing,” Jeremy Fowler and Don Van Natta Jr. wrote. “Dak Prescott's 2024 deal was one such negotiation, whereby the Joneses and the quarterback discussed Prescott's place within the organization's future and Prescott's agent, Todd France, came in later to negotiate the finer details of a contract.”
It seems like a disrespectful way to treat star players. Where it might save the organization a few dollars, it’s hard to imagine it ever going well with the player’s psyche.
And then how does Jones wind up getting his feelings hurt?
“The source relayed a feeling from Jones of, ‘Oh, so that's how they are going to do it. Micah is going to negotiate with us; we're going to go up; we're going to have an agreement, and then the agent says that's the floor, and we're going to go from there?'” Jeremy Fowler and Don Van Natta Jr. wrote. “Jerry was like, ‘Hell no. That's not the way this is going to work.'”
It seems like typical Cowboys. And now they’ll go forward without their best defensive player.
