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Jerry is doubling down on the shocking decision to part ways with Micah Parsons.
FRISCO, Texas — As Micah Parsons spoke following the Green Bay Packers‘ win against the Washington Commanders Thursday, the fans had a message for Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones.
“Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Jerry,” they chanted.
Speaking Friday at The Star, Jones acknowledged the risk involved in trading away the Pro Bowl pass rusher but expressed no regret.
“If anybody doesn’t think that this is rolling the dice, I don’t know what rolling the dice looks like,” Jones said. “You make decisions like this and the consequences usually when they have this type of critique or this type of impact, you’re not out here playing pinochle. You really aren’t if you’re taking risk. And we all are there, and if it weren’t risk then you wouldn’t have so many people probably disagreeing with my decision.”
When Jones acquired Charles Haley from the San Francisco 49ers in 1992, he said the Cowboys couldn’t spell Super Bowl without Haley. Does he worry he’s done the same for the Packers in sending them Parsons?
“I worried when we did Herschel Walker to Minnesota. Of course,” Jones said. “A great player, I’ve had some real success with great players. Deion Sanders and I would put Charles Haley in there too, OK. But we also know there was a lot of other supporting cast around Deion and a lot of supporting cast around Charles Haley, too. I weighed that [in the Parsons’ trade]. I did that for months around here, weighing that very good.”
The Cowboys acquired the Packers’ two first-round picks in 2026 and 2027 as well as defensive tackle Kenny Clark for Parsons.
“Remember you cannot have it all. You just cannot have it all,” Jones said. “There’s not room to have it all. And so looking at how this best suits us over these next three or four years, and this year as well, that’s where Kenny Clark is such a big deal. I wouldn’t talk to anybody that didn’t have a serious football player ready to go for us.”
The injury to DaRon Bland appears to be short-term.
FRISCO, Texas – On Friday, Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer confirmed the team will be without CB DaRon Bland (foot) on Sunday against the New York Giants.
“I’m not going to put a timetable on it, I think he’ll get back as soon as he can, but we will be without him this week.” Schottenheimer said.
Bland injured his foot earlier in the week during practice and first popped up on the injury report Wednesday. This injury is on his right foot,...
