Micah Parsons is no longer a member of the Dallas Cowboys. In fact, he has already had a press conference as a member of the Green Bay Packers. It is over.
While we are all intent on moving forward the reality of the situation is that there are going to be details about the fallout between Parsons and Dallas, the one that led to him being traded away for two first-round picks and Kenny Clark, for some time. We might be hearing about them even years after this dust settles.
It did not take that long for quarterback Dak Prescott to get roped into it all. On Friday there was a report from Albert Breer in Sports Illustrated that detailed what happened between Parsons and the Cowboys, obviously there was a lot of that going around.
One line stood out from Breer’s report. In noting that Parsons’ podcast, the one he regularly does where he discusses matters across the NFL and otherwise, Breer mentioned that it was an issue within the locker room. He specifically made mention that it was an issue to some degree for Prescott.
As we said, the pacing of this negotiation wasn’t wholly dissimilar from what we all witnessed with Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb last year, or even Zack Martin the year before that. Once the team arrived in California for camp in 2023 and ’24, their negotiations were put on the back burner, the same way Parsons’s were this summer. Basically sending the message that if a deal isn’t done that works for the team early, the player has to wait.
That said, there is a difference between this negotiation and the previous three. Martin, Lamb and Prescott are/were very popular in the locker room. That’s not the case with Parsons, who has rankled teammates in different ways, seen by some as egotistical and self-centered. His podcast has created issues, too, that go all the way up to quarterback Dak Prescott.
The reason this feels significant is because Dak Prescott is rarely connected to stories like this. Dak generates some passionate emotions in terms of thoughts around his play, but it feels fair to say that we hardly ever see him in this kind of regard or anywhere near it.
If this reporting is true then the “what are you doing” nature of trading Parsons may make more sense to some people. In a world where everyone was rubbed the wrong way, maybe alleviating the team of Parsons’ presence improves group morale.
That is all based around this report being true, though. If it isn’t true then it is hard to draw that same kind of line. We should note that the article has no on-the-record quotes, or even vague off-the-record background references to where this information came from.
What do you believe?
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