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Jerry Jones stirred the pot on Monday and Micah Parsons paid attention.
The Dallas Cowboys held their annual press conference to kick off training camp and it was a doozy to say the least.
Brian Schottenheimer talked a bit about what he envisions for his football team, but that was a footnote relative to Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones holding court. The Cowboys owner(s) fielded all sorts of questions about how their star pass rusher, Micah Parsons, still does not have a contract extension and how waiting on these types of things has not exactly gone well for the franchise in recent memory.
As they pontificated throughout the presser, at a certain point the idea of Parsons “holding in” (as in being present at training camp but not practicing to avoid injury) was being discussed by Schottenheimer. Jerry Jones interrupted to note that just because the Cowboys might have Parsons (referencing a deal hypothetically being done) may not mean he would be available. Jerry said what he meant was that Parsons missed six games last year (it was four) and inferred that he was unreliable in that sense.
Obviously that is an unwise thing to say in general, but particularly about someone with an enormous amount of leverage against you. NFL people were reacting to it on social media afterwards, including former NFL star J.J. Watt.
Watt noted that Jerry’s comment was unwise. What is notable about what Watt said is that Micah Parsons reposted it, seemingly agreeing with it.
It was last year during training camp that CeeDee Lamb had a repost himself after Jerry Jones made a comment about him when he (Lamb) was holding out. As predicted, Lamb ultimately got the deal that he wanted which made all of the posturing look even sillier.
To be clear the Cowboys have not even held a training camp practice and will do so for the first time on Tuesday. But until a Parsons extension is signed, it is going to be the dominating story of all things Cowboys.
