Blogging The Boys
It is important to me to never speak for anyone other than myself. The following opinion represents only the way that I feel, but it may be an opinion that a lot of Dallas Cowboys fans agree with.
When Micah Parsons issued his trade request from the Dallas Cowboys last week by way of a public statement (to put things lightly), I did not really flinch. I haven’t yet if I am being totally honest. But I am thinking about it.
My thought process at the time was that Parsons was doing what he could to accelerate his hold-in status. Surely this had to be some sort of ploy, the return serve to Jerry Jones’ latest comments (what were the latest comments at that point, there are since newer latest comments because of course there are).
We are approaching a week since Parsons’ declaration and I am not quite abandoning ship. I do want to know where the nearest life-preservers are though and what the procedure is if we have to abandon ship. Part of what made me feel this way was what Bobby Belt shared on 105.3 The Fan on Wednesday morning.
“The impression I got yesterday talking to people at the Cowboys and just calling around the league and stuff like that is… they’re not joking with the request. Like right now they’re serious, it feels like… there’s a lot of people around the Cowboys who feel like… they’re not bluffing.”
“It’s in need of repair. The way things are currently… they want out. And that’s the thing. I think the Cowboys have to be the ones to extend the olive branch and say, hey, we’ll fix this.”
“Clearly if they’ve reached out twice… David Mulugheta said it on the record twice they’ve done it… and these instances and this is what we’ve heard back. Then I think that that clearly says that the Cowboys… the ball’s in their court to be the ones to go do something about it… it felt more real to me than that this is just a leverage play.”
If I am being honest then this thought was born in my mind on the weekend right after Parsons’ request reached the entire world, I just didn’t know it. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler discussed the state of things across the NFL at large in a column and obviously touched on the Parsons situation. You can read what he wrote at the time here.
Maybe you were like me and tried to think about the last player before Parsons who requested a trade from the Cowboys. If you followed that line of thought then maybe you also got distracted and never fully returned to the mental exercise which is what happened to me. It wasn’t until I read what Fowler wrote, that according to multiple sources of his, nobody could remember the last time a Cowboys player publicly requested a trade from the team, that I remembered I even posed the...
