Blogging The Boys
There has been a lot of chatter on the internet about the Dallas Cowboys and Micah Parsons obviously, but as of late that chatter has also involved a third party… the Green Bay Packers.
You may have seen that the Packers have been “connected” to a trade offer for the Cowboys’ star pass rusher, but these have not come from the standard NFL insiders and reporters. To date there has been nothing along those lines, and what has been out there has been internet fodder more than anything, but that all changed a bit on Wednesday.
ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio reported that the Packers are definitely interested in Parsons, but the Cowboys have apparently not tolerated any of it and the noise around the situation is not as intense as the internet would have had anyone believe.
In response to recent indications from the Twitter user known as “RickeyScoops” (who undoubtedly owns real estate on the NFL’s grapevine) that the Packers want to trade for Parsons, we’ve done some digging. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Packers are “interested.” However, the interest is “nowhere near the smoke that’s out there.”
To be fair this “report” that the Packers are “interested” in Micah Parsons isn’t really much of anything if we take it as it is. Who wouldn’t be interested in Micah Parsons? This is like saying every team is interested in Patrick Mahomes or Myles Garrett. Everybody holds “interest” on some level.
The only reason this is notable is because of the internet fires that have been circulating around Parsons in general but with specific regard to rumors of the Packers having interest. Our friends at Acme Packing Company had been covering this in the same sort of way from their side of the equation.
As Florio pointed out, the Packers’ interest doesn’t matter as long as the Cowboys choose to hang onto Parsons. Until Jerry Jones decided that the two sides are beyond the point of a makeup, following sputtering contract negotiations that included Jones talking with Parsons instead of his agent, there will be no trade.
For now we can file this under a bunch of nothing, but again it felt relevant to put to bed as best we could.
