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It was not a nightmare. The Dallas Cowboys traded Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers on Thursday and received two first-round picks and defensive tackle Kenny Clark in return. In a press conference discussing the move after the fact, the Cowboys noted (we all lie to ourselves) that this was done in the name of improving the team both now and in the future.
It is hard to square the trade that the Cowboys made. Many believe that the compensation from Green Bay is not enough which has led to the assumption that this was all concocted in the last moment.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, that is not the case. The Cowboys and Packers reportedly had trade terms agreed to on Tuesday and what followed after was all about contract negotiations between Parsons and Green Bay.
This is hard to buy at full-face value. Surely someone would have said over the course of 72 hours that what Green Bay was giving the Cowboys was not enough and that they should consider asking for more.
What’s more, this admittedly is unknown given the lack of specifics from Pelissero in the report, it calls into question the 53-man roster assembly from Dallas. If the terms were agreed to on Tuesday, the day of roster cutdowns, then why did the Cowboys keep Mazi Smith? Or why did they keep Perrion Winfrey? Obviously these questions are because Dallas, presumably, would have known they were getting Kenny Clark in return.
This all feels difficult to make sense of. That likely won’t change for some time. If ever.
