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It feels like the Dallas Cowboys can’t go a single week without some drama. Just when you think it can’t get messier, Jerry Jones jumps on a microphone and proves otherwise. His latest appearance on Michael Irvin’s podcast created more chaos around Micah Parsons and his contract saga.
Jones claimed he had already worked out the framework of a massive deal with Parsons. According to him, the only thing standing in the way was Parsons’s agent, David Mulugheta, who Jones said told the Cowboys to “stick it up our a**.”
That alone would have been enough, but then ESPN’s Ryan Clark got involved. This twist only raised the tension as Parsons openly requested a trade earlier this month.
Clark wasted no time after hearing Jones’s comments. He called Mulugheta directly. “He laughed, he said, ‘I’ve never used that phrase in my life,’” Clark said in a video on X. “For Jerry Jones saying that, this is false. This never happened. This is just another public way to make this situation, which is already ugly, even uglier.”
Mulugheta’s denial went further. Clark explained, “David told me in no way has he ever told Jerry Jones, or any other owner, anything close to that. He said it’s all bullcrap, it’s all lies.” That completely undercuts Jones’s claim that he already had a done deal with Parsons before the agent got in the way.
Just talk to Micah Parsons’ agent David Mulugheta! This is what he said about Jerry’s comments pic.twitter.com/fLj1Rs9mhp
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) August 21, 2025
Jones, though, keeps doubling down. “We had our agreements on term, amount, guarantees and everything,” he told Irvin. “The issue, very frankly, is, we’ve had the negotiation in my mind. The agent is trying to get his nose in it and try to come in there and improve off the market we’ve already set.”
That attitude sums up the gap between the two sides. Jones thinks a March chat with Parsons settled everything. Micah Parsons insists it was never a real negotiation. “Yes, I engaged in a back and forth in regards to what I wanted,” Parsons explained in his trade request. “But at no point did I believe this was supposed to be a formal negotiation and I informed Mr. Jones afterward my agent would reach out.”
Now, the Cowboys are just days away from starting their season, with their best defender frustrated and their owner making accusations on podcasts. And with whispers already hinting Parsons may be done with Dallas if this drags on, the circus will go on.
