Jerry Jones’ Dealing with of Micah Parsons Dispute Is ‘Unethical,’ Says Nick Wright

One other day has handed, and Micah Parsons nonetheless would not have a brand new cope with the Dallas Cowboys.

Sooner or later after Parsons’ fiery commerce request on Aug. 1, proprietor Jerry Jones had a brazen response to rising issues surrounding the state of affairs, insisting the standoff with the All-Professional cross rusher is not any totally different from previous conditions he has handled. “Don’t lose any sleep over it,” Jones mentioned. “That’s the one factor I’d say to our followers.”

That led FOX Sports activities’ Nick Wright to outwardly criticize Jones on Monday’s version of “First Issues First.”

“The complete … press gathering was type of surreal, even by Jerry’s requirements,” he mentioned. “The entire thing was weird, however what could be very, very clear to me is 2 issues. Certainly one of which is: Jerry appears like they (he and Parsons) had an settlement, and he desires to stay to it — and I feel that that’s an unethical strategy to do enterprise. … My different large takeaway is that this: Jerry desires to be the star of this negotiation. He made that very clear. … 

“I feel finally it (a brand new deal) will get finished. I do not suppose Micah will get traded. I feel Jerry finally ends up caving, however I additionally suppose … even when it will get finished, they broken the connection considerably.”

Parsons and the Cowboys started contract discussions in January. Some discourse arose in April when Jones talked about on the NFL’s annual league assembly that he was speaking immediately with Parsons a few potential new deal, whereas Parsons let or not it’s recognized that he would not be doing any deal with out his agent, David Mulugheta, concerned.

In June, Parsons mentioned that he was “hanging in tight” and “hopeful” that he’d have a brand new deal finished earlier than the beginning of coaching camp on July 20. Sooner or later earlier than the beginning of camp, Jones seemingly questioned Parsons’ sturdiness by mentioning he missed a handful of video games due to a excessive ankle sprain final season — the primary time the 26-year-old had handled an harm in his skilled profession — when requested by reporters for an replace on the negotiations.

Whereas Parsons did not immediately reply to Jones’ remark, he reshared a social media submit from former NFL star J.J. Watt that learn, partly, “Anytime you’ll be able to publicly take a dig at your star quarterback and your star cross rusher concurrently, proper earlier than the season begins, you simply gotta take it.”

Parsons had reported to camp in Oxnard, California, however solely noticed from the sidelines and didn’t take part.

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Parsons made a proper commerce request this month, calling out the Jones household for the way they’ve dealt with contract negotiations and revealing that they have not “had a single dialog” together with his agent. “I not need to be right here,” Parsons wrote in a 1,000-plus-word assertion. “I not need to be held to close-door negotiations with out my agent current. I not need photographs taken at me for getting injured whereas laying it on the road for the group, our followers and my teammates. I not need narratives created and unfold to the media about me.”

Parsons went on to say that he and Jones met in March to “discuss management” and that the dialog changed into a contract dialogue. “Sure, I engaged in a forwards and backwards [with] regards to what I wished from my contract, however at no level did I consider this was alleged to be a proper negotiation,” Parsons revealed. “I knowledgeable Mr. Jones afterward my agent would attain out considering this might get issues finished. However when my agent reached out and spoke to (director of wage cap/participant contracts) Adam Prasifka, he was instructed the deal was just about already finished. My agent, after all, instructed him that wasn’t the case and … once more, the workforce determined to go silent.”

Jones added extra gas to the fireplace two days later, saying that former Cowboys star Dez Bryant — who publicly voiced his assist for Parsons on social media — and Roc Nation Sports activities proprietor Jay-Z are the rationale why he would not prefer to cope with brokers in gamers’ contract discussions. The 82-year-old instructed reporters that Jay-Z give up taking his calls after the 2 spent hours negotiating a brand new contract for Bryant in 2015, a declare that Roc Nation shortly refuted.

A primary-round draft choose in 2021, Parsons has at the least 12.0 sacks in every of his 4 seasons in Dallas and has 52.5 for his profession. He additionally had 12 tackles for loss in 13 video games final season. Parsons goes into the fifth and last yr of his rookie deal and might be franchise tagged in 2026 with out an extension. He is set to make $24.007 million in 2025.

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