Speaking on 105.3 The Fan<\/a>, Jones spilled the beans on some of the logic behind the Micah Parsons trade. He acknowledged many of the previous reports but also added a nugget that had largely been glossed over: risk avoidance.<\/p>\n Investments are often weighed between risk and reward. Avoiding risk is almost as valuable as reaping rewards. It\u2019s why many retirement plans are based on diversified investments which spread risk across sectors in order to minimize the chance of catastrophe. If risk didn\u2019t exist, retirees would just invest in lottery tickets.<\/p>\n Spreading risk on the football field means not putting all of one\u2019s eggs in a single basket (I.e. don\u2019t give one player all the money). It\u2019s here where Jones argued his case.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Overall, the logic checks out, especially in the wake of Parsons\u2019 season-ending knee injury that could bleed into next year. Paying Parsons the combined salary of four or five other players is fine as long as Parsons is healthy and producing. But if he gets hurt it is borderline disastrous because all of those financial eggs are in one basket: Parsons\u2019 basket.<\/p>\n Splitting up one mega-contract into a handful of modest ones might not be advisable in a vacuum where injuries don\u2019t exist, but in the real world where risk must be weighed, the argument is sound.<\/p>\n Even with the injury, trading Parsons may go down as one of the poorest moves in franchise history. He\u2019s a generational player with the pass rush production of an entire team. He\u2019s also a lot of risk that some investors would seek to actively avoid. It goes to show every investor has their own strategy. It\u2019s just funny the gambling oilman was the one who focused on the risk and not the reward. \u00a0<\/p>\n You can follow Reid on X\u00a0@ReidDHanson<\/a>\u00a0and be sure to follow\u00a0Cowboys Wire on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to join in on the conversation with fellow fans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 3, 2026, 8:09 a.m. CT Being the general manager of professional sport\u2019s most valuable franchise is guaranteed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,102,104,103,10132,10133,44,18378,4585,2619,217,46,36],"class_list":["post-109589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-accessfree","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-sstssportsnflcowboys","tag-sstsncowboys","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagmicah-parsons","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/86373428007-square-1.jpg\")