Jets turned down opportunity to trade for All-Pro DE

The remnants of the Aaron Rodgers era may have cost the New York Jets an opportunity to trade for a player who could have changed the outlook of their season.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told Gary Myers of ESPN New York that he talked to the Jets about a trade for defensive end Micah Parsons before he was traded to the Green Bay Packers. The Cowboys wanted a defensive tackle like Quinnen Williams and two first-round picks for Parsons, but New York told Jones that it didn't have enough resources to make a deal.

Jones said the talks with the Jets were good but brief because they were in no position to trade.

"A prerequisite to the entire trade was that we had to have, right now, a really, frankly significant, dominant inside defensive player, which was our goal to address the run more than we'd been addressing it the previous four years," Jones said. "We had tried to do it with Mazi Smith when we drafted him two years earlier, but that was a prerequisite, and you didn't get in the mentality of my trading if you didn't have that coming through the door."