Now that the 53-man roster has been settled, at least for the moment, we can start looking ahead to the first game of the season. The Dallas Cowboys will travel to Philadelphia to play the Eagles on Sept. 4th, the opening game of the 2025 NFL season.
There have been a lot of positives for the Cowboys offseason. The acquisition of George Pickens. A draft class that looks like it will contribute. The emergence of Brian Schottenheimer as a confident leader. The Cowboys were also much more active in filling out the roster this offseason, a welcomed change from the previous years dormant offseason.
But with this being the Cowboys, Jerry Jones isn’t going to be able to get out of his own way. The situation with Micah Parsons is one of the bigger unforced errors a team can make, and we’re still not sure what the consequences will be. There are long-term ramifications here, but there is a very short-term issue that is straight ahead.
Will Micah Parsons play against the Eagles? We don’t know how far Jerry or Parsons want to push this. Jerry could end it by paying up much like he did with CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott last year. The caveat there is that those negotiations never turned as personal as these with Parsons have, and there was never a trade request made. Never a scrub of social media.
This one feels a little different than other ones. So will Parsons sit out a game with a ‘back issue’ to make a point? It would cost him around $1.4 million, but Parsons seems like a principled kind of guy who might entertain the idea. Additionally, if he doesn’t practice this week but says he’ll play, is there anyway the Cowboys would do that?
Jerry Jones has made this an idiotic situation, but here we are. Do you think Micah Parsons will play in the first game?
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