Jerry Jones sat down for a more than hour-long interview with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith that released on Friday. That included his latest retelling of the ongoing contract situation involving LB Micah Parsons. Looking over Dallas’ facility, Jones again told his side of the story regarding his supposed negotiations with Parsons to Smith. He said, […]
Jerry Jones sat down for a more than hour-long interview with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith that released on Friday. That included his latest retelling of the ongoing contract situation involving LB Micah Parsons.
Looking over Dallas’ facility, Jones again told his side of the story regarding his supposed negotiations with Parsons to Smith. He said, after Parsons called him to begin negotiations, the All-Pro linebacker cut off those communications with David Mulugheta, his agent, then coming around to discuss a deal that Jones feels they’d already negotiated through.
“Micah came in from Saudi Arabia, called me from Saudi Arabia coming in, wanting to talk. He said he didn’t want to talk about the negotiation but wanted to talk, okay – ‘Jerry, can I have your cell number?’. I don’t ever give anybody my cell number. I want to give you my cell number,” said Jones. “We negotiate. We go back and forth. We come through. We go to the next day. We negotiate, get it all done. I get a call – ‘I don’t want you to call me anymore’. Micah (says) don’t call me anymore, so we haven’t called – ‘Don’t call me anymore’, ‘Don’t call me anymore.'”
“The agent calls. He says we need to start a negotiation with Micah,” Jones continued. “I said, ‘Well, we’ve negotiated. We’ll send over the deal’. Proverbially, he says keep it. I won’t tell you where to put it, but just keep it – ‘We’re going to start a negotiation, okay’. We’ve had the negotiation? Period.”
At that point, Smith asked Jones what responsibility he has, as the Cowboys’ owner, president, and general manager, to get this deal done regardless. Jones, though, says he’s not there to play what he feels is the he-said, she-said game that’s ongoing right now in these discussions.
“I stood there on our last day of mini-camps, talking with Micah – ‘Have your agent call me’. Have your agent call me, have your agent call me,” said Jones. “My point is, and the spirit of not doing the old mother-dad deal? How many times have you seen the little rascal, so clever, go in there and momma told him, ‘Nuh uh, you’re not going to get it’ and goes in to daddy, who only sees him after five in the afternoon and wants to love him, and says, ‘You can have it, son. You can have that before dinner’? And he goes back in and he says, ‘Momma, Daddy said I can have it’?”
“I’m not going to go for that s*** here,” Jones stated. “That’s what’s happening. I’m not going for it – no, no.”
Every story, and, in this case, negotiation, has at least two sides to it. However, Jones’ telling is another piece that suggests this isn’t going well anymore between Parsons, who remains unsigned with a standing request still to be traded with less than two weeks until the season starts, and the Cowboys.
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