Parsons traded, wow, what a haul

[tsylvester]

The Dallas Cowboys are trading All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for a compensation package of 2026 and 2027 first-round picks and three-time Pro Bowler Kenny Clark, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Jane Slater report

The Dallas Cowboys are trading All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for a compensation package of 2026 and 2027 first-round picks and three-time Pro Bowler Kenny Clark, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Jane Slater reported on Thursday.

The Cowboys subsequently announced the trade.

Upon arriving in Green Bay, Parsons will sign a four-year, $188 million deal with $136 million guaranteed that will make him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history at $47 million per year, Rapoport, Pelissero and Slater added.

The stunning blockbuster trade finalizes a divorce between Parsons and the Cowboys that seemed all but impossible just weeks earlier, even amid a prolonged contract dispute that spilled over into the public eye and grew uglier with each passing week. While Dallas has notoriously developed a habit for waiting to pay its best players, a split between the two parties simply wasn't fathomable because of what was thought to be one simple truth: No team would willingly part with a player of Parsons' caliber, especially not as he's just entering his prime.

The Cowboys -- and their owner, Jerry Jones -- felt differently, obviously.

As he's done throughout the course of his nearly four decades spent as Cowboys owner (e.g., the 1989 Herschel Walker trade), Jones decided to go against the grain with this deal. In the staring contest between Parsons' representation and Jones, the world-famous owner refused to blink. When trade interest was leaked this week, Parsons told Slater he and his team went back to the Cowboys regarding an extension but were met with a response of, "play on the fifth year or leave."

https://www.nfl.com/news/micah-parsons-packers-cowboys-trade

[papasmurfbell]

Jerry is a senile old fool.  He sure as hell didn’t do the walker trade.  That was jimmy.  Maybe Dallas fans will get it.  He doesn’t care about winning.  It’s time to attack what he cares about.  Attack the money.  Boycott every sponsor until Jerry is not running the team.

[tsylvester]

Of the top 10 leaders in sacks, in league history,  only 4 of them have won a super bowl.

Cowboys couldn't stop the run the past few years, not even when Pasons, an end, was healthy.

Now they get a guy who is very good at stopping the run, plus, 2 1st round draft picks.

I really don't have a problem with this trade, 

[papasmurfbell]

Late round picks.  If Jerry had done this in march his haul is much better. The player is 30 so has a few yrs left.  

[tsylvester]

Yes, maybe low round 1 picks, so what? Use one to combine to move up in the draft next year that will have an abundance of talent, by all accounts.

You've got Dak and CD paid top dollar, cant pay everyone.

Had you paid Mincah earlier, Mincah would have signed the deal he agreed to when met with Jerry, in March, but no, he changed his mind when he brought the deal to his agent.

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If you had traded correctly you could have gotten say 10-18.  Maybe 3 first rounders.  A bidding war is a good thing.  Jerry sold low.

[tsylvester]

Maybe, maybe they did get other offers and this was the best they could do.

Yes, starting this earlier would have been wiser, and I do think Jerry should step back from the gm role and just be a silent owner. He clearly knows football, but has little horse sense.

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He thinks he knows football.  I think you or I could do better.  I do remember how pathetic that team was before parcels got there.   I also remember the yr they had 2 great WRs a te qb rb.  They had the best accumulated position talent in the league.  He only forgot an ol which was one of the worst.  I don’t fall for this Netflix bs that he made the walker trade.  I remember it was jimmy.  I distinctly recall something to the effect of I have a lot to deal with holding onto the team business wise.  You run the football operations.  

[tsylvester]

That netflix show was awesome. You could really see how Jimmy was the reason for their success, in the draft and on the field. The players knew it. Had they kept him, they win 2 more, but neither he nor Jerry could put their egos aside.

The worst thing to happen to that franchise was their winning the super bowl with Barry as head coach. That, to Jerry, confirmed that Jones was the "great football mind" behind their success. My how easy it was to fool himself...

 

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Jimmy’s players and culture was in place.  Then fa begins and you can’t keep guys.  I think jimmy would have beat bill to the trading of talent to get more picks.  I think he had 3 more in him if he could hold off the stress.