{"id":69170,"date":"2025-08-14T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69170\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:08:07","slug":"cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-1992-nfl-draft-decision-a-bellwether-in-micah-parsons-contract-dispute-trade-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69170\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones\u2019 1992 NFL draft decision a bellwether in Micah Parsons\u2019 contract dispute, trade request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones\u2019 1992 NFL draft decision a bellwether in Micah Parsons\u2019 contract dispute, trade request<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

Jerry Jones is, unsurprisingly, but characteristically, being a stickler with Micah Parsons in contract negotiations. It\u2019s why the star EDGE and the Dallas Cowboys are at a standstill, following the 26-year-old\u2019s highly publicized trade request<\/a>, as the preseason reaches its midpoint and the regular season looms in less than a month.<\/p>\n

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CBS Sports\u2019 Joel Corry isn\u2019t necessarily surprised, having seen firsthand how Jones likes his deals done<\/a>: on his terms and swiftly.<\/p>\n

Corry\u00a0shared a story from the\u00a01992 NFL draft,<\/a>\u00a0when Jones tried to persuade receiver Jimmy Smith to accept a below-market deal, even before\u00a0being selected by the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

\u201cJones has a long history of trying to circumvent agents when negotiating contracts. I have witnessed it firsthand. When I was just getting started in athlete representation, the firm I worked for represented Jimmy Smith. Our expectation was Smith would be taken in the latter part of the first round in the 1992 NFL Draft. He was considered the third best wide receiver prospect available,\u201d Corry wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cJones called Smith while the Cowboys were on the clock to tell him he was going to be taken 36th overall but only if he agreed to a contract before the pick was made. Smith, who was already feeling some anxiety because NFL teams were waiting to draft wide receivers, agreed to Jones’ below-market terms.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Cowboys drew criticism from agents and other teams for using this tactic with several of their 1992 draftees because it violated conventional draft protocol.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy bosses called Jones to let him know the verbal agreement wasn’t binding and any negotiations would be with them. A deal appropriate for Smith’s draft position was subsequently negotiated. Because of the Cowboys’ tactics, all future draft eligible clients we signed were given instructions on how to handle the situation Smith faced.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court of public opinion is in Parsons\u2019s favor almost by default. Jones has been known to deploy slimy tactics for so long that it\u2019s practically assumed at this point that he\u2019s being exploitative in almost everything he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones\u2019 1992 NFL draft decision a bellwether in Micah Parsons\u2019 contract dispute, trade request originally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[43522,49,48,39324,1721,16241,43259,43523,1731,514,82,29822],"class_list":["post-69170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-1992-nfl-draft","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-contract-negotiations","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-jerry-jones","tag-jimmy-smith","tag-joel-corry","tag-micah-parsons","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-the-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}