Parsons blamed his desire to leave Dallas on the elongated contract negotiations.<\/p>\n
“Yes I wanted to be here. I did everything I could to show that I wanted to be a Cowboy and wear the star on my helmet,” he wrote. “I wanted to play in front of the best fans in sports and make this [America’s] team once again. The team my pops and I grew up cheering for way up in Harrisburg, PA. Unfortunately I no longer want to be here. I no longer want to be held to [closed-door] negotiations without my agent present. I no longer want shots taken at me for getting injured while laying it on the line for the organization, our fans and my teammates. I no longer want narratives created and spread to the media about me.”<\/p>\n
Parsons said that he’d previously not made a fuss, hoping to get a deal done — something he’d desired since he was eligible after Year 3. Earlier this offseason, his agent, David Mulugheta, suggested it would be wise to wait until other deals were done — i.e., Myles Garrett<\/a>, T.J. Watt<\/a> — but Parsons said he preferred not to wait and hoped to engage with the Cowboys brass.<\/p>\n “I knew I would be leaving money on the table, but again I was OK with that,” Parsons wrote. “Again, radio silence as far as my extension. In March I met with [owner] Mr. [Jerry] Jones to talk about leadership. Somehow the conversation turned into him talking contract with me. Yes, I engaged in a back and forth in regards to what I wanted from my contract, but at no point did I believe this was supposed to be a formal negotiation and I informed Mr. Jones afterward my agent would reach out thinking this would get things done.”<\/p>\n Per Parsons, the Cowboys went silent on his agent and refused to negotiate, believing the framework of the deal was in place.<\/p>\n “Up to today, the team has not had a single conversation with my agent about a contract. Not one demand has been made by my agent about money, years or anything else,” he wrote before saying he’d formally requested a trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parsons blamed his desire to leave Dallas on the elongated contract negotiations. “Yes I wanted to be here.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,4,1816,9108,3,349,6257,99,14594],"class_list":["post-53353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-micah-parsons","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353","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=53353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}