Dallas’ cowboys made such a shocking movement that it was momentarily paralyzing. A decision that some would consider as unthinkable. Dallas exchanged Micah Parsons to Green Bay Packers. Parsons is a Rusher Star Pass approaching the premium of his career, and exchanging it to one of the largest rivals of the team, Green Bay, is all the more surprising.
Parsons was appointed professional professional in each of his first four seasons of the NFL and was appointed All-Pro in two of them. During his short career, he accumulated 52.5 bags of 52.5, good for the sixth of all time in this period behind names like Reggie White, JJ Watt and Derrick Thomas. Although Green Bay has sent the defensive platform of the Kenny Clark cowboys, a multi-professional bowling player himself and two first-round choices for Parsons, this still does not look like sufficient compensation for a parson caliber player. The question is, why? Why would Jerry Jones do this? Simple: Jerry Jones must do it in his own way or not at all.
As has been highlighted over the years, and presented in the recent documentary of Netflix, The Rift between Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones was the prelude at the end of the Dallas dynasty of the 1990s, and if you sat in Johnson or Jones to find out who was right, the only opinion that matters and that you are wearing is Jones himself, who serves the owner of the team. And general manager. Jones had a way of doing business that didn’t work for Johnson, and Jones, not wanting to give in to his coach, separated from a coach who had won two Super Bowls.
During the 30 years that followed, the pride and the self-justice of Jones have worsened, despite the team not to win a championship since the 1995 season, which made the cowboys have apparently jogging in place in the last three decades. Jones’ approach was only exacerbated by the growing value of the team, now $ 13 billion this year, and perhaps the justification for itself. To worsen things, his son Stephen became a more important figure in the team’s operations, often echoing his father’s commercial tactics, but also constantly justifying them.
As for the trade of Parsons itself, the cost of the contract should not really be a major factor if you think about it. The rest of the NFL has proven that contracts and figures from the salary ceiling can be moved for expensive agreements to work. Admittedly, Parsons had received its requested award, an agreement would have been concluded and that everything would have been water under the bridge. Except that it was not achieved under the terms of Jones and how he likes to do business. In a seated with Stephen A Smith d’Espn, Jones quoted should be “comfortable” for the cost, which talks more about his personal feelings as a businessman than the owner of the NFL, and does not align with the way the contracts are calculated in today’s NFL.
On the Podcast Ross Tucker, Andrew Brandt, a long -standing sports agent who has negotiated contracts for Green Bay packers and philadelphia eagles, weighed on what Jones tried to do with Parsons:
It seems that Jones tried to bypass the Parsons agent, David Mulugheta, and had a handshake with parsons without the present agent. Unfortunately, it exploded on Jones’ face, and with Jones who did not want to play balls with Parsons and its performance, it became the last straw and the profession was carried out. More than anything, the decision to exchange Parsons concerns Jones who wish to exercise control and send a message that he is always the head of the table of the board of directors.
Jones had been routine to drag the contractual negotiations with its main players, such as Ceedee Lamb, Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott, before transactions were concluded, but not before failing the contract figures and using the media to supervise the player as demanding too much or being greedy. A way of putting pressure on the player, but giving the impression that the ball was in the player’s courtyard, very similar to Stephen Jones saying last month that Parsons must want to be paid. What happened to Parsons feels surprisingly familiar when the cowboys approached Tyron Smith in 2014 on a new eight -year contract and 110m without his agent being present. Smith did not sign the contract proposed on site and chose to speak with its presentation before concluding the agreement anyway.
“At the end of last week, the cowboys approached me with an agreement that I told my agents that I wanted to sign,” Smith said in a statement published by his marketing firm. “My agents explained the advantages and disadvantages of this agreement compared to that which can be a short -term and / or more guarantee. After a careful exam, I decided that this long -term offer was exactly what I wanted.
“Over the past three years, the organization of cowboys and the Jones family have helped me to go through difficult times and I felt that it was an opportunity to return gratitude. I am more than grateful to the staff of the cowboys, my teammates and the fans, and I wanted to make sure I am locked as a “cowboy for life”. I would like to thank everyone for their support and I can’t wait to have a star on my helmet for the rest of my career. »»
Two different players, with two different players from the personality, resulting in extremely different results. Jones must understand that old people are no longer as things are done and that a handle agreement or a number written at the back of a dinner towel is made for television like its special Netflix. In the end, Jones drew a hard line in the sand, asking Parsons to play under the fifth year option or go elsewhere and go for obligatory. A star player on a renowned type trajectory is now elsewhere because Jones could not get with Times. The old habits die hard.
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