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The Dallas Cowboys take the field for the first game that matters under head coach Brian Schottenheimer in six days on the road at the defending Super Bowl champions, and when they do, two-time All Pro and four-time Pro Bowler Micah Parsons will not be on the field for them. As of Thursday’s blockbuster and stunning trade, Parsons is a member of the Green Bay Packers defense, and Kenny Clark is the latest Cowboys defender as the only player involved in the swap. The Cowboys also received two future first-round picks from the Packers.
The very idea that Micah Parsons could be traded away from the Cowboys was a real possibility as early as August 1st, when Parsons took to twitter to publicly announce he’d handed a trade request to Stephen Jones himself. Even with nearly a month to process this possibility though, Thursday’s trade hit the sporting world like a bombshell.
Although this situation quickly took a different path to that of Dak Prescott’s or CeeDee Lamb’s when their contracts were handled by the front office, the expectation was still there that the destination would remain the same. Dallas would “fold” in some ways, costing themselves more like they always do, and pay Parsons to make him a long-term Cowboy.
As it turned out, the path that was never straight had one more surprising bend at the finish, with Parsons not only set to play in a new uniform after four years with America’s Team, but the green and gold of the Packers. The sight of this will only irk Cowboys’ faithful even more given the bad blood that’s been built between the Cowboys and Packers over the last decade and change, and these teams will meet on Sunday Night Football in Arlington in week four.
If there was one thing that remained within even a molecule of consistent throughout this entire Parsons ordeal, it was loud and heavy criticism for the Cowboys front office. The shortcomings of Parsons as a candidate to be the highest paid non-QB in league history, a trajectory at one time the Cowboys front office would still like us all to believe he was on, have hardly been aired out throughout this wild month. During which, everything else from previous negotiations dating all the way back to Dez Bryant, to names of agents and NFLPA staffers, to what Parsons did or didn’t have in his social media bios and profile pictures, have all had space.
The simple fact that the entire saga is now over can be seen as the only positive for almost all parties involved, although the ending is both fresh enough and controversial enough to be discussed from now right up until kickoff on opening night.
So, if it will take the Cowboys and Eagles actually kicking off for the 133rd time in their history to get any further closure on Parsons being elsewhere, why wait until then to discuss the return the Cowboys got?
Although Jerry Jones was quick to...
