Field Gulls
On Friday the Seattle Seahawks sent a message to the NFL that they are ready for the regular season, after a dominating win over Kansas City. Could the impressive showings the past two weeks make Seattle more interested in the drama down in Dallas?
As we are just a few weeks away from the start of the NFL season, superstar Micah Parsons and owner Jerry Jones have still not found common ground on an extension to keep Parsons a Dallas Cowboy. The standoff has been awkward at best, and messy looking most of the time.
Now, will Micah actually get traded? I’d put it at 20% at best. You simply just don’t see players of Parsons caliber get to this point, and actually get traded. As we have learned this summer, trade requests are usually just a negotiation tactic, but this does feel a bit closer to what Cincinnati’s Trey Hendrickson is going through, than what Myles Garrett and T.J. Watt went through. We really haven’t seen a player of his caliber get their wish since Khalil Mack was traded from the Raiders to the Bears six years ago.
If this does become a situation where Parsons and the Cowboys are truly at an impasse, could John Schneider and Mike Macdonald actually pull off a potential trade and land an extension? Should they?
Micah Parsons is a stud. In four seasons, all Parsons has done is win Defensive Rookie of the Year, be voted to the Pro Bowl all four seasons and named All-Pro twice. The two-time Defensive Player of the Year runner-up has a whopping 177 QB pressures in 63 career games, and has averaged over 13 sacks a season. Before last year’s injury-riddled season for himself and the Cowboys, his defense had been ranked 7th, 5th, and 5th overall in points allowed. They also won two division titles, made the playoffs three years in a row, and won 12 games for three straight seasons. It is clear, with this guy on your roster, you’re going to have a Super Bowl caliber defense and will be a team that is hosting playoff games in January.
Obviously a player such as Parsons would be a fit on all 32 teams, but Seattle may have a strong case as his best possible destination in a trade. While everyone will bring up the relationship between Micah and his former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, I think we can all agree that Dallas is not trading its best player to its NFC East rival Commanders. What people may not know is the relationship between Parsons and Seahawks DC Aden Durde.
Durde was Micah’s defensive line coach throughout his Cowboys career, before coming to Seattle last season. Parsons has spoken glowingly about Aden and credits much of his success to him. So now you have the familiarity, but imagine pairing Parsons with Mike Macdonald? You could have something special.
I don’t...
