Cowboys followers chant 'Pay Micah!' as Jerry Jones addresses contract scenario

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The Dallas Cowboys ’ greatest storyline from coaching camp so far is Micah Parsons’ contract scenario, and extra importantly, when proprietor and GM Jerry Jones can pay up.

And as a lot as Parsons would love a brand new extension, it seems Cowboys followers are in the identical boat.

Throughout open coaching camp on Saturday, Jones addressed the group of followers, and there have been "Pay Micah!" chants heard, in keeping with a video posted by The Athletic.

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Feb. 6, 2025; New Orleans, LA: Jerry Jones on the purple carpet earlier than Tremendous Bowl LIX NFL Honors at Saenger Theatre. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Photographs)

As followers had been chanting, Jones was making an attempt to level out every part else the workforce has finished to fortify the roster this 12 months, together with the addition at vast receiver with George Pickens coming in by way of commerce with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"I used to be shocked final 12 months once we ended up with the report that we had," Jones mentioned. "I by no means noticed that coming. . . . I would like you to observe what we’ve finished within the areas that we wanted to work on. Have a look at what we’ve finished on this offensive line. Have a look at what we’ve finished, if you'll, with our receiver core. Have a look at what we’re doing with our protection.

"Lot of adjustments out right here. Lot of teaching adjustments. Lot of participant adjustments."

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Followers, although, are trying on the giant elephant on the Cowboys’ discipline in Parsons, the workforce’s first-round choose from 2021 who's due for a contract after cementing himself as among the best defensive gamers within the league.

Parsons will probably be enjoying his 2025 season on a fifth-year choice, which the Cowboys simply picked up earlier than the 12 months. After this 12 months, Parsons could be a free agent except the Cowboys franchise tag him, which might all the time get messy.

Micah Parsons attends the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront 2024 on Might 15, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Mike Coppola/Getty Photographs for Warner Bros. Discovery)

Parsons has been vocal this offseason about his contract, saying in June {that a} delay in signing him out in the end value the workforce extra. Then, the Cleveland Browns signed Myles Garrett to a long-term extension price $40 million, which in the end led the Pittsburgh Steelers to present T.J. Watt a $41-million-per-year extension as nicely.

Parsons hinted at these offers when discussing his ideas final week, saying he wished the Cowboys had the "similar sort of power" as different organizations who locked down their star defensive gamers.

"In the event that they don’t need me right here, they don’t need me right here," Parsons mentioned, by way of The New York Post . "I’ll go about my enterprise. I perceive the character of the enterprise. Like I mentioned, so long as I’m right here and beneath contract, I’m gonna do what I've to do to carry out on the highest stage. But when that is the top, that is the top."

"I simply don’t perceive," Parsons added about his scenario.

Dallas Cowboys workforce proprietor Jerry Jones stands on the sector throughout warm-ups earlier than an NFL soccer sport towards the Detroit Lions in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photograph/Gareth Patterson)

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Parsons isn’t a hold-out participant proper now, as he’s been in Dallas' camp. Nonetheless, he hasn’t been a full follow participant resulting from again tightness.