This is quite the insult.
Cowboys' Micah Parsons trade proves Jerry Jones is a 'grifter' who should no longer be in charge, says SI national writer originally appeared on The Sporting News
Jerry Jones has led the Dallas Cowboys for a long time.
Sports Illustrated's national NFL writer, Connor Orr, believes his time is up. He wrote Thursday night that the Micah Parsons trade proved it.
Orr brought the heat in his analysis of the deal.
Really, it's best just to read it. Here's a snippet, and the whole version is here:
Please, please don’t attempt to intellectualize this as the Herschel Walker trade 2.0. Walker was a 27-year-old running back with a heavier workload in his past than a Depression-era coal miner. This is more akin to the Packers bringing in Reggie White for six consecutive Pro Bowl seasons, proving that they understand how to properly evaluate generational talent.
Seriously, it took one of the most free-agent averse franchises in the NFL all of 30 seconds to come up with a generational financial package for Parsons that comfortably made him the highest-paid nonquarterback in NFL history. Amazing how easy it was to find—and correctly pronounce—the name of Parsons’s agent, which Jones was so publicly struggling to do.
More than anything, we should be happy for Parsons, who fought his way out of this fake-ass QVC broadcast masquerading as a professional football team. So long as this owner remains, the Cowboys will be a handful of nice-looking fish roaming around in a cloudy tank, with no real direction, just an avenue to catch people’s attention as they walk on by. Fans who stick around, fans who believe they are in on the three-dimensional chess, fans who think that this decade is going to be the one in which the old gambler rewards their blood, sweat and hard-earned money with anything but the bare minimum effort, are disappointingly simple-minded. You are under the spell of a grifter, my friends, one who should have had the keys taken away a long, long time ago.
Goodness gracious.
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There's some reality here. Jones tried to get Parsons to agree to a deal without his agent present, which is legitimately against the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
He also acted throughout the process like he's more important to the Cowboys' success than the 25-year old superstar edge rusher who is being paid more than any non-quarterback in NFL history.
"Now that Parsons is gone, the Jones’s are gleefully wasting the remaining years of (Dak) Prescott’s prime and that of CeeDee Lamb, a receiver, who, one has to imagine, is just as eager to depart the padded, sterile walls of Frisco, Texas, for a place interested in hunting for a championship," Orr writes.
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There's a definite scenario where it all comes crumbling down here.
The Mavericks traded Luka. Now the Cowboys traded Micah.
There's nothing good about this for fans of Dallas sports, and with the Cowboys, Jones is right at the center of the process.
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