Micah Parsons Contract Drama: Contract Chaos Might End His Cowboys Career?

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On this episode of GET UP, the panel breaks down the heated negotiations between the Dallas Cowboys and superstar linebacker Micah Parsons. With rumors swirling about front office mismanagement and delayed offers, is Dallas risking its relationship with one of the league’s top defensive stars?

Stephen A. Smith, Mike Greenberg, and the crew discuss whether the Cowboys are botching Parsons' contract the same way they did with past franchise talents. Could Parsons be headed for a holdout or trade? Is Jerry Jones holding the Cowboys back from building a Super Bowl contender?

Find out why this might be the beginning of the end between Parsons and Dallas.

📌 Includes insight on:
– Parsons' contract demands
– Jerry Jones’ strategy
– Cowboys defensive future
– NFL insider reports

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00:00A wonderful Wednesday and delighted you are up early with us.

00:07Lewis has made his way to New York.

00:09It is wonderful to have Mr. Riddick here.

00:10Kmart ready to roll.

00:12Neek is here.

00:13We are jam-packed this morning and we dive right into the NFL

00:16where the action was in Oxnard yesterday.

00:20The Cowboys took the practice field for the first practice of their training camp.

00:24Micah Parsons still awaiting a long-term contract extension,

00:27mostly a spectator, citing tightness in his back.

00:32Then Micah, as soon as practice was over,

00:34sought out reporters and shared his frustrations

00:38with the way his negotiations have gone and with ownership.

00:42Listen to this.

00:44When you go around the league and you see these other teams

00:47taking care of their best guys, I see TJ got taken care of,

00:51Max got taken care of, Miles got taken care of,

00:54and he got two years left on his deal.

00:56So when it started, yeah, you see a lot of people around the league

01:00getting taken care of.

01:01You just wish you had something like that same type of energy.

01:06If they don't want me here, they don't want me here.

01:09I'll go about my business.

01:10I understand the nature of the business.

01:12Like I said, as long as I'm here and I'm under contract,

01:15I'm going to do what I have to do to perform at the highest level.

01:18But if this is the end, this is the end.

01:20Same way that Jerry Jones and Steven Jones

01:23and the other Jerry Jones take care of their family,

01:25it's the same way I need to take care of my family.

01:27I got my own three kids of my own,

01:29so I need to take care of my own family at the end of the day.

01:32Okay, so vastly different from the tone that we have accustomed to hearing

01:39from Dak Prescott in the past and some of the others.

01:42Nick, the first thing you said in our meeting,

01:44I think it was actually John Fink, our coordinating producer,

01:46who sat up out loud.

01:47You say it.

01:47This is a little bit of a different road he's taken.

01:50Yeah, I mean, and the idea that Trayvon Diggs is standing next to him,

01:53chiming in, reminding him of all the other players that are getting paid,

01:56like, it doesn't feel good.

01:58It feels like his mind is, obviously,

02:00Micah was incredibly professional throughout this whole process,

02:03and he seems to be a little bit more mature, honestly,

02:06handling this thing in a more mature way than Jerry Jones is.

02:09He said all the right things, but you can see the hurt.

02:11Like, he didn't seem happy,

02:13and I imagine his back would get a little less tight

02:15with a little more money in his pocket.

02:17Things would loosen up.

02:19Yeah, and what Fink said this morning was,

02:21maybe Jerry picked the wrong guy to pick a fight with.

02:24You know, Dak Prescott always handled everything,

02:26took all the slings and arrows and never really punched back and all that.

02:30Micah is a guy, and we've known it, we've seen it,

02:32and I've been critical of it at times for being as outspoken as he's been.

02:36I don't need my superstar linebackers making lists of the top 10 quarterbacks

02:41in the NFL and leaving his own off of it.

02:43But in this case, I'm 1,000% behind him saying what he thinks.

02:48You can tell he's not happy, and he has every reason not to be.

02:51No, he does have every reason not to be.

02:53You know what, let me just kind of, like, look at this

02:56and try to see this through Jerry Jones' eyes, all right,

02:58or from a front office perspective's eyes, right?

03:01I mean, look, when you go into the draft, and we do this every year,

03:03and you're building the football team,

03:05and you're looking at positions like quarterback, pass rusher,

03:08wide receiver, corner offensive tackle, the top five positions,

03:11Micah Parsons is exactly what you're looking for.

03:13This is exactly the kind of guy that you want,

03:15a guy who you've drafted, one of your own, homegrown, you've developed,

03:20you've seen him make you money selling merchandise,

03:23putting people in the stands.

03:25He plays hurt.

03:26He plays an impact position.

03:27He's young.

03:28He's healthy.

03:30To me, this is a no-brainer.

03:31This is one of those deals where you're sitting there going,

03:33I don't want to strike the worst deal for myself.

03:35I don't want to create drama.

03:36I want to put this to bed because I want to send the right message

03:39to everyone else on my football team, right?

03:41All those things, to me, seem to be just common-sense things,

03:44not this asinine bit of, well, I paid one guy, and look what happened.

03:48I didn't get my return on investment.

03:49He only played a couple games, and you're sitting there like,

03:52it's almost like you sound like you're betting against your own guys,

03:56especially when you take it to the 11th and 12th hour.

03:58That's exactly what you're doing because you know as time goes,

04:01you're not going to get a better deal.

04:02You're going to get a worse one.

04:03Why are you doing that, and why are you putting these messages out here

04:06against a young man like this who plays an impact position,

04:09who's done nothing but deliver for you?

04:11I don't get that.

04:12So yesterday I had an NFL exec tell me,

04:15I wonder why they keep putting a microphone in front of Jerry

04:18because he says too many dumb things.

04:21And I think when you have top-tier talent,

04:24but you make that top-tier talent feel ordinary,

04:27I think that's a dangerous game because you know how I am.

04:30I always liken the NFL, it's all about relationships, right?

04:33And for me, I feel like the quickest way to lose somebody,

04:37lose a relationship, is to make them feel unheard.

04:39To make them feel like, hey, you're just lucky to be here.

04:43And Micah Parsons, to Dominic's point, has done everything right.

04:46But he is the type of guy that will let you know,

04:49this isn't okay, this is how I feel.

04:52And no one understands why.

04:53Everybody is just as confused as Micah Parsons.

04:56And I think, I will say though,

04:57I'm not sure if it will be a big distraction during the season

05:02because I think it will end with him getting paid.

05:04The question for me is why?

05:06Why do we have to keep doing this?

05:08And is there damage being done during this process?

05:11Right.

05:11And I think one of the things that Jerry Jones does have working in his favor

05:15is he does this silly stuff all the time.

05:17Because you hear Micah in his comments say,

05:19like, yeah, this is kind of what he did to Dak.

05:22This is kind of what he does.

05:23And he recognizes that this is how Jerry operates.

05:25But it doesn't make it okay.

05:27And I think the fact that I brought up earlier about Stephon or Trayvon Diggs

05:30coming up there, like, when you got these guys coming together like that,

05:34like, that doesn't feel good because it's not just one person isolated.

05:37Everyone's like, it feels as though the whole locker room is thinking like,

05:41what are you doing?

05:42Yeah, and we were saying this in the meeting too.

05:44Like, there's always unintended consequences from conducting business this way.

05:48And it's not, look, there's not going to be a third down play.

05:50It's going to be third and two.

05:52And Micah has outside contain where he's going to sit there and go,

05:54you know what?

05:55Jerry made me wait for my money.

05:56I'm going to let this running back get outside of me and go for the first down.

05:59But what does happen is people don't show up in the offseason the way they want to.

06:04Guys don't wind up mentoring some of the young guys the way you want to.

06:07Guys don't put in the extra work the way you want them to simply because they feel as though,

06:11hey, look, I'm going to do exactly what is required by me and nothing extra.

06:15Because guess what?

06:16All during the way, they made me fight and scratch and claw and talk bad about me

06:20and put out all these, like, weird messages about me.

06:23Like, you just don't want to conduct business this way.

06:25And I don't get, look, Jerry's a very rich man.

06:27And he's built the Dallas Cowboys into the, what,

06:30the number one profitable sports franchise in the world.

06:35It's just amazing that your people skills would be this tone deaf to me.

06:39So the word, I think, that encapsules what you're talking about is culture.

06:43It's the culture that is created and the way that people feel in all of that.

06:46And the one thing they have done is prove me wrong.

06:48Because at the end of last season, I said they have two options.

06:51One, trade Micah.

06:52If you need a lot of pieces, trade, get a king's ransom form because the entire league

06:58would be dying to get him.

06:59Or two, just pay him.

07:00I didn't realize there's a third option, which is don't do either.

07:04So far, they've not done either of those things.

07:05It's almost August, and they've not done either of those things.

07:08There were two very obvious options, A and B, and they chose something that wasn't on the menu.

07:13Yeah.

07:13And I think to Lewis's point, like the culture stuff is important because it's not, there's

07:17only a couple people that can have this huge impact on the culture of your organization.

07:22Definitely the guy who owns it.

07:23And if the message that he's sending to you is this ain't serious, the message that you

07:27will internalize, and it's not a conscious decision, but you're right.

07:30It's the little things that creep into the things that are acceptable for you to do that

07:34you wouldn't have thought of before.

07:35And it's hard to be so critical of them because they have been like kind of successful over this

07:41run.

07:42It still just doesn't add up to like long-term and winning the big one.

07:46I remember talking to Brandon Bean, the Bills GM, when he signed Josh Allen to a big contract

07:52extension back in 2021.

07:54And he said, I had the best night's sleep after I got that done.

08:00And it's because you don't wait.

08:01The market value goes up.

08:03Good GMs just keep it, just know that they want to retain the best talent.

08:06See, that's critical right there, what you just said about Brandon Bean saying, look,

08:10I had the best night's sleep.

08:11Yeah.

08:11Don't you think you would have a good night's sleep paying Micah Parsons, that he's not

08:15just going to go in and then just tank it and be like, you know what, I got my back.

08:17I mean, if I'm Jerry Jones, I'd be like, here, now let me turn my attention to other things

08:22that need my attention.

08:23I'm not worried about you.

08:25I think Jerry has a good night's sleep when he's like, oh, we're going to be at the top

08:28and get up and get up again.

08:29We won the A block for the third day in a row.

08:33Congratulations.

08:33A block champs.

08:35He can rest easy on that one.

08:36Yes.

08:36No question about it.

08:37And by the way, I mean, it was 24, 23 hours ago, Adam Schefter sitting right here said that

08:43they haven't even made an offer.

08:45The Cowboys have not even begun.

08:46That's mind-boggling.

08:47And here we are.

08:48How is that?

08:49Camp has begun.

08:49Micah Parsons has tightness.

08:51How is that?

08:52Champions of the A block.

08:54Everything matters.

08:55Like everything, see, some of these things, they just start adding up and so it starts

08:58to feel like it matters.

08:59So that is a camp concern.

09:01We're going to take a look around the league at some other camp concerns right now.

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