Micah Parsons trade: Michael Irvin guarantees Dallas Cowboys are ‘rattled’ after sending star defender to Packers

A week out from opening not just their year but the league’s season, Dallas decided to trade away Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers. With that, Michael Irvin can’t see how that couldn’t affect the Cowboys in their first game next week against none other than the Philadelphia Eagles.

On ‘First Take’ on Friday, Irvin joined to discuss the impact of the Parsons trade on the Dallas Cowboys. That starts with their opener less than a week out in a divisional rivalry against the Eagles, who’ll be celebrating their win in Super Bowl LIX. However, it’s a matter of if it’ll affect them negatively or do so positively in motivating them.

“Yeah, this will be a difficult game for them to go into, certainly the Philadelphia game, right now with this situation. It really is. Now, you think about, it’s not just this. We’re coming off Dak Prescott’s situation. We’re coming off CeeDee Lamb’s situation. And then, right in the preseason, here you get a Trevon Diggs situation,” said Irvin. “I guarantee you that the locker room is rattled right now, and it’s definitely going to affect them next Thursday night.”

“Now, how it affects them is up to them. Do they say, you know, we’re tired of this and show up and not play? Or do they say we’re going to show everybody in play?” Irvin asked. “But, it’s going to affect them.”

This was already going to be a tough matchup for Dallas, having lost three of four to Philadelphia including both games last season in blowouts at 34-6 and 41-7 respectively. It’ll be that much harder now, psychologically like Irvin said, as well as on the field with BetMGM favoring Philly by -7.5 per their latest odds.

Irvin places blame on himself for not helping Cowboys, Parsons reach extension

After months of negotiating, the Dallas Cowboys ended up shocking the sports world when they traded Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, doing so for two first-round picks and Kenny Clark. This came after the two sides were unable to reach an agreement on a long-term deal, leading to him asking for a trade.

Irvin, on ‘First Take’ on Friday morning, placed blame on himself for failing to get in between Jerry Jones and Parsons when trying to navigate a new contract agreement between the two parties. He thinks he could have changed how this eventually ended up going.

“Don’t think I haven’t put that on my own self,” Irvin said. “I kept thinking, ‘Is Jerry serious?’ Maybe I should have went and got that thing done for real. I absolutely have thought about that and I swear to you this makes NO rhyme and NO reason. (Parsons) was reaching out to me. He was crying out and I missed it.”

“I should’ve jumped in the middle of it even deeper and better and I’m hurt for it. There’s no doubt in my mind. All that Jerry’s saying about them being better is not true. That reminds me of the documentary where his dad said ‘Make it look like you know what you’re doing even when it’s not working.’ That’s what I came up with. It’s not true.”