{"id":270850,"date":"2025-11-04T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270850\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:28:09","slug":"the-war-of-words-continues-between-jerry-jones-micah-parsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270850\/","title":{"rendered":"The war of words continues between Jerry Jones, Micah Parsons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micah Parsons is gone from the Cowboys, but the hard feelings linger.<\/p>\n

Months of acrimony resulted in an August 28 trade to the Packers. Since then, owner and G.M. Jerry Jones has largely played defense by explaining in various ways the decision to trade away one of the best defensive players in football. At a time when his team\u2019s defense is now among the worst in the sport.<\/p>\n

On Monday, eight days after Parsons publicly complained<\/a> about the team\u2019s treatment of cornerback Trevon Diggs, Jones tried a new argument. Basically, Jones suggested that Parsons isn\u2019t worthy of the money he wanted.<\/p>\n

The question from Stephen A. Smith of SiriusXM to Jones focused broadly on whether Jones looks in players now for traits displayed by former greats like Michael Irvin and DeMarcus Ware, and whether Jones sees it in his current players. In his response, Jones went straight to the moment when Parsons laid on a training table during a preseason game in which he wasn\u2019t playing due to his contract dispute.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot one time, not even in the hottest of days and two-a-days in August in Texas, between eleven in the morning or when they quit practicing or four in the afternoon, did I never see any one of these two go over and lay on a damn training table in front of a million people,\u201d Jones said. \u201cNever. It\u2019s not in their makeup. . . . It\u2019s just not in their makeup. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you\u2019d like to think if you\u2019re going to be [paying] the highest that\u2019s ever been paid for something in football, you could get that. And when you don\u2019t have it and you pay the highest that\u2019s ever been in football, you really got a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a weak argument, frankly. Parsons \u2014 who played without hesitation in 2024 for well below market value even though he was eligible for a new deal \u2014 was using the tools available to him to get the contract his performance has earned. Jones was trying to squeeze Parsons to honor the terms of a supposed handshake deal that Jones tried to do behind the back of Parsons\u2019s agent. <\/p>\n

If Irvin or Ware or any other highly-skilled Cowboys player of yesteryear were in the same position Parsons was in, what would they have done? Gladly accepted an offer that didn\u2019t reflect their value, or taken a stand?<\/p>\n

When Michael Irvin played, players had little or no leverage. Now, they do. Now, players are willing to fight for what they deserve.<\/p>\n

The entire situation happened because Jones wanted to lowball Parsons, and because Jones got upset when Parsons didn\u2019t respond to mistreatment with gratitude. Taking a clumsy shot at Parsons\u2019s character is just the latest ploy in Jones\u2019s misguided P.R. effort aimed at making the fans see it his way before lining up behind the billionaires.<\/p>\n

As they all too often do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons is gone from the Cowboys, but the hard feelings linger. Months of acrimony resulted in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-270850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}