Jerry Jones: Talk of Micah Parsons trade is ‘BS’ unless it comes from me

Jerry Jones laid it out in plain English regarding a potential Micah Parsons trade on Friday. During an interview with Stephen A. Smith on the ESPN analyst’s YouTube channel, he called BS on any rumors surrounding the Cowboys star defender.

“As you well know, an existing player on a team — if somebody is talking to him or his — that is a tremendous violation. You can get a lot of draft picks if somebody should happen to be talking about that. Other than I, other than me, other than an assignee of mine — any talk of trading is BS. There’s nothing to it. It’s just nothing to it,” Jones told Smith.

“Because everybody knows you’re not gonna play for three years. Everybody knows that that’s not gonna happen. And everybody knows that Micah is a key ingredient for it. A key ingredient. Does this sound familiar to you? How about Emmitt Smith?”

Those are poignant words from Jones, especially alluding to his former running back. It’s evident he has no plans of trading Parsons away, even if that’s what the defensive star would like.

Alas, it’d be prudent for Jerry Jones and the Cowboys to get a deal done with Micah Parsons before Week 1, and lock in their star player for many years to come. Time will tell if it comes to fruition, but it seems like it’s Dallas or nowhere for the star pass-rusher. 

Could Micah Parsons miss Week 1 amid contract dispute?

Meanwhile, ESPN’s Dan Graziano dished a bit on the Parsons’ contract standoff during an appearance on Get Up on Friday. The Cowboys are preparing to face the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 1, and there’s still no guarantee Dallas’ star player will be on the field.

“The way to look at this at this point is that Micah has a decision to make,” Graziano stated. “He could show up and practice next week, play in the game, and play on his current contract—that’s going to pay him almost $22 million this year. And then the threat of the franchise tag looms next spring. He could call his agent and say, ‘You know what? We’re beaten. Let’s just do it. Take it, go, go.’ I mean, again, these are the options available to him.

“He could sit out the game. Now, that’s the key—because until he actually does that, you can threaten to sit out, but until you do it, the other side has no real reason to believe you will. So it’s up to Micah.

“At this point, I think what the Cowboys—with Brian Schottenheimer and Jerry Jones—are counting on is that Micah loves to play football. … If Micah doesn’t show up and play, then I think the leverage starts to shift toward him a little bit.

“Because at that point, the Cowboys have to take it seriously. Now, he can’t sit out the season, because if he does, the contract would toll, and he’d be in the same position next year. But he could sit out the first 11 weeks and then show up, right? So there are options available to him.”