Blogging The Boys
It has been 17 days since Micah Parsons publicly requested a trade from the Dallas Cowboys. This is important as today marks 17 days left until the team’s season opener on the road against the Philadelphia Eagles. We have officially reached Hump Day as it pertains to this particular part of this unfortunate saga.
In the two and a half weeks since Parsons declared that he no longer wanted to play for the Cowboys, there has been a lot of discussion, pontification and confusion from everybody involved. Based on reports in the window in question, one thing there hasn’t been is any discussion between Parsons’ agent and the Cowboys front office.
On the subject of reports, Adam Schefter offered another of sorts on Monday morning on ESPN. During the conversation on Get Up the panelists were discussing the Parsons situation and Dan Orlovsky expressed frustration in having to talk about the matter. Orlovsky suggested that the Cowboys will get this done right before the opener (in an attempt to steal attention away from the Eagles as they get set to raise their Super Bowl banner).
Mike Greenberg suggested that while the Cowboys have a history of being performative that this one “feels different.” As he was saying that Schefter jumped in and noted that it is different and that he is not exactly confident a deal is going to get done before the season kicks off.
“It is different. It’s gotten personal and they’re no closer to a deal and there’s no reason to think that the Dallas Cowboys and Micah Parsons will be able to work out a deal before the start of the regular season.”
“Now again it’s August 18th and sides always could come together. But we want to emphasize. There have been zero. Zero contract negotiations since late March and early April.”
“Is that going to change all of a sudden? I don’t think so.”
The verbiage that Schefter reinforced last week was that there is “no deal in sight” between Parsons and the Cowboys, where on Monday he made it a point to go as far as suggesting there is “no reason to think” that a deal gets done. There isn’t exactly a huge leap between those things, but we are just trying to distinguish what was said and when it was offered.
Ultimately, the fact that things are where they are with this story remain frustrating for just about everyone. It has served no benefit to drag this situation out (just like it served no benefit to drag out the ones with Dak Prescott either time or CeeDee Lamb or whoever else you want to suggest). As Bill Barnwell put it in his assessment of the Cowboys’ antics last week – “What if we just make them mad with no real benefit in return?”.
