#Cowboys Fish at 6 LIVE: ‘IT’S NOT WORTH IT! Micah vs. Jerry and 3 Deep-Dive Problems + Camp Notes

#Cowboys Fish at 6 LIVE: ‘IT’S NOT WORTH IT! Micah vs. Jerry and 3 Deep-Dive Problems + Camp Notes

Is it worth it, Jerry? Is it really? Mike Fischer, your trusty entrust reporter. This is the fishbowl on the Dallas Cowboys. 36 years on this beat. 40 years on the NFL beat. Five items on the fish for dinner menu tonight as we invite you to get in, get on, and be good. We’ll go quickly through four of them. And then item number five is a pull up your big silver and blue easy chair and let’s get comfortable here. Item number one, Shotti speaking in Oxnard today. He’s not locked into Milton anymore if he ever Now he never said he was. We just kind of observed that Milton was the number two guy and Shotti today saying I don’t have to decide that yet, do I? His point is we know what Will Greer is. We’re gonna see what what Rocket Joe is. Uh, and of course, Will Greer was not scheduled to play in that game. We get a little dinged up elbow from Milton. Will Greer goes in and, you know, he looks like a folk hero like he usually does. There’s a six bongs on the wall, by the way, for those of you who embibe. So, Milton versus Greer. Not quite done yet. Item two, blues coming back this week. So, the seriousness of that bone bruise, apparently nothing to worry about there. We’ll just call it a bruise. And then Miles Sanders, the veteran newcomer who dealing with a knee. Both of them are going to start to do some work this week. And then Shottenheimer talked about the possibility. Yeah, we we could see them Saturday against the Ravens. So, you might play Miles Sanders against the Ravens. That’s a beard scratcher. Item three. Flu says that Izzy is our Swiss Army knife. I wasn’t sure. Izzy, let me take that back. Every every time we do a 10-man backfield on our 53man roster, I have Izzy in it. He’s 6’4 defensive back who can play multiple spots, but he’s certainly not guaranteed anything. But here’s Zerflu now saying he’s our Swiss Army knife. And of course, he made a heck of a play in that game in that loss against the Rams. Boundary corner. H big safety. Sure. Uh cover tight ends and such in the slot. No doubt about it. Then he goes downfield and makes that play. So Izzy Swiss Army knife looks like he’s in item four. Holden, the undrafted rookie wide receiver Shottenheimimer saying he’s going to be moving up the depth chart. So there’s still tiers. Tier number one remains Lamb and Pickins and I think Cavante. And here comes Holden trying to push his way to tier two. Now item five. This is where we’re going to have to get comfortable or if you’re Jerry Jones, maybe uncomfortable. This is a almost a right of passage. now every spring summer to the point where it almost seems like it’s on purpose almost. If it’s not a contract dispute, it’s something else controversial or nasty or silly or something orchestrated so many times or amplified by Jerry Brian C. Good to be back on the live chat. Yes, sir. Good to have you back for with your $2 pitch in the super chat. And uh that reminds me the Cowboys watching party fish fest the weekend of October 12th here in DFW at the Maverick Bar. And we we’ve got activities planned. So get on in here. We’ll have a Saturday nighter. We’ll have a big Sunday. So come on in here, ask the fellas for more information. And we’ll be spreading that uh that plan as we go every year. Now, sometimes it’s legitimate uh a legitimate issue. Sometimes it’s one that that didn’t happen because Jerry Jones helped make Zack Martin. That that was all Zack Martin. And then in terms of the factual controversial issue, now what Jerry and the Cowboys did with it, that’s the part that becomes the circus. Then sometimes it’s just Jerry creating the circus. And I’m now convinced, I’ve been slow to come around to this, you haven’t, this Netflix special, August 19th debut or whatever, which is really the it’s the Jerry show more than anything else. Um, it is a centerpiece of Jerry’s thinking this off season. It’s as important as anything. So, we might have a star hold out or we might have a contract guy looking to cash in or we’ve got something and Jerry always delivers, not in a football way, but in a marketing way. plays hard ball with the contract, stands firm, says something headlinew worthy often of uh plenty of times it’s demeaning to his players what he says and all this points to a question how productive not for PR how productive are these negotiation tactics what’s the upside and What’s the downside? Jerry’s approach and his use of the media. We We can’t say it might have worked in the 90s. It did work in the 90s. They They won three Super Bowls. Dustin Peterson, I need some straight dope with minimal bullsh. You’ve come to the right place. Straight dope, no bullsh 31 months in the super chat. And by the way, uh, JB, among the many of you who are hanging out with us, uh, at Substack, and we’re having conversations just like this one, we’re going deep dive on the Cowboys. It’s fantastic. Uh, and it’s so so easy for me and easy for you, too. fishportscowboys.substack.com. Thank you, uh, VJ and JV and everybody else is hanging out there. There there’s I think I think there’s uh 1,200 of you now that have subscribed in just a matter of days. We know about the drought 29 years blah blah blah. At some point Jerry’s strategy starts to feel not just old school and outdated. A couple of you pointed out earlier, not necessarily about this topic, but I’ll take it for this topic. Why is Jerry always talking about the ‘9s? I hadn’t thought of it that way. Could you imagine if every time Howie Roseman did an interview, Eagles general manager, he brought up the Super Bowl from a decade ago. Or maybe a better example is uh a a a team that had great success before because the Eagles have had success since that every every conversation about winning today is about well we we did it in 1992. every time. It’s uncanny. Seahawks. If every time the Seahawks general manager talked about what they’re going to do this year, he said, “Well, you know, Legion of Doom, every time it it seems not just outdated, but it seems, especially the bashing your own player part of it, it seems barbaric. That’s that’s a tech shra. That’s when you and I I I know ex I’m choosing my words carefully here. That’s when teams really did feel like they kind of owned the player. Now, they always owned the contract, not the player, but you you couldn’t go whether whether you’re Randy White or Drew Pearson or Charlie White or Roger Stuck. We kind of own you. MP Jimmy built that Super Bowl team. Jerry’s walking tabloid. I’m I’m not angry enough at Jerry to take away from his contributions as the co-architect of of the franchise and its winning ways then. But I’m talking about now. Wookie, what’s up, Uncle Fish? Will any of our first stringers get any playing time for us this preseason? Running back free agent for us. The Cowboys certainly do not seem like they’re leaning toward, hey, let’s go get some other mediocre running back because isn’t that what’s out there? Is there a free agent running back out there that’s better than what they have? And by the way, as I just said moments ago that they just mentioned the possibility of playing my Sanders in this second preseason game. You know my feelings on playing valuable starters in preseason games. There’s some guy, you know, you want to see my Sanders because you haven’t really seen him. Fine. I don’t need to see CD Lamb. JV $2 pitch in. Could Micah be in the PR game with Jerry? They’re both in the PR game, but they’re not. This idea that they’re in cahoots and they’re both pretending that they’re mad that they’re not pretending. They’re mad. Having said that, uh the many people ESPN otherwise, Dan Olowski is pushing this hard. I think they hate each other. Dan, you don’t know either one of them. They do not. This happens every year. To some people, it seemed like Dak and Jerry hated each other a year ago. That CD Lamb and Jerry hated each other a year ago. That Zack Martin and Jerry hated each other before that. And on and on and on. That’s not it. That’s never it. It’s all part of Jerry’s methodology to make it appear soap operatic and he says it. It’s deeply flawed. If you’re measuring the success just by whether or not the guy eventually signs, then it’s a success. They all eventually sign. Very rarely does Jerry give in to a star player saying trade me. Like very rarely like close to never. And very rarely does a star player walk. His track record of keeping stars and paying him is very good. And I predict it’ll continue to be very good in the next few weeks when Micah Parson signs. I predict. Emtt Smith eventually got paid. Ezekiel Elliott every eventually got paid. And everybody in between pretty much eventually got paid. Mark KK. Everybody please hit the like button. Yeah. Would you do that? There’s going to be between 10 and 75,000 fish heads in Kaboo Nation who watch this video. Let’s have a few hundred people hit the like button, please. But just getting them signed isn’t enough. Uh Dion, you’re going to have to show me the link. But I if if I’m just guessing now that you saw something on Bleach Report or Facebook saying that either they should trade Tolbert or they’re trading Tolbert and uh I am not aware I if if it’s on Facebook it’s and if it’s on Bleacher Report it’s probably they’re creating an idea. I am not aware that the Cowboys are trading Jaylen Tolbert tonight. There’s bigger issues than just signing the guy here. In fact, there’s three of them. Item number one, in the end, they end up overpaying. Waiting does not work. Not for football. Son of John, $10 pitch in. Jerry contradicts himself. He says he wants one last Super Bowl because he’s getting old, but his actions speak otherwise. Especially last year with BIU. That was that was the action of a guy that blow it up last year was was the action of a guy who thinks he’s going to live forever. Maybe he will. Maybe he will. Overpaying doesn’t work. in a football sense because be um we’ve talked a little bit about and I don’t have I’m not a financial planner but I do understand a little bit about how um an owner might want to keep some of that money in his pocket for a while because the interest on $130 million for one more month is pretty good. But in the football sense, overpaying is bad. Greg Ford, what about Hershel Walker? Hershel Walker didn’t ask for a trade at all. Completely different. Dak Prescott deal. And we all know this. It didn’t have to be $60 million APY. It didn’t have to be. Is it true that it takes two to tango? Of course it is. You can’t make the agent take your offer. But you could you could blow him away with an offer that was way bigger that made him the highest paid quarterback, highest paid player ever, and still wasn’t 60. Run the ball, fish. I’m loving that substack. Thank you. By the way, you the Cowboys put themselves in position and I don’t want to start a Dak Prescott war here. He’s the highest paid quarterback in football, but he’s not even close to the best quarterback in football. I mean, not even close. Lavel, Jerry, and Steven will get this done. Trust the process. They will get it done. But I don’t trust the process. That’s the point of tonight’s show. The process is deeply flawed. CD Lamb, it’s a lot of money. Didn’t have to be. Zeke, a lot of money. Didn’t have to be. And of course, part of the cap issue, Jerry says this uh uh the pie. There’s only so much pie. and then he gives it to the guy anyway. So if you believe that the salary cap is real, and it is, salary cap hell isn’t real, but the salary cap is real, and you’re against giving a guy too big a piece of the pie, then why are you doing it? your heavy spending and your top heavy spending with a shallow foundation. Jerry’s negotiating tactics are about waiting for whatever reason. Above the fold, public relations, let’s get on ESPN. Oh, look, they’re talking about us. Whatever. He still ends up paying every time more than he wanted to. And then you’ve got, forget tension from the fan base, which is bad because I’m talking about football, talking about the football team. You’re dragging a guy through a tense situation unnecessarily saying negative things about him. Oh, that tension. Item two, a Jerry Jones negotiation. And Steven Jones pitches into this too. It’s always chippy every time. Me 10. This is all part of the movie. It it’s not going to be well I take it back. There could be some aspects of the Michael Parsons negotiation that will be included in the Netflix thing but like this week’s drama is this week’s drama. It will feed the promotion of the Netflix thing. And if your point is that Jerry is as driven by the Netflix thing as he is by anything, your point is well made. So item two, the chippiness. Why am I getting under the player’s skin before I pay him? Why am I making pointed comments about him and then I pay him? It’s a tactic that seems to be designed to create PR to create attention. Is it also designed to rattle the player? Because it doesn’t rattle the player in a way that makes them go, “Oh my gosh, Jerry’s insulting me. I better sign now. That never happens. Oh my gosh, Jerry said something mean about me. I think I’ll take less. That doesn’t happen. It doesn’t create leverage. It just stirs up friction. Tension bruise. negotiation turns personal and then does it create a rift between Jerry and Micah Jerry Dax Jerry CD Lamb I think that goes away and Dax said the other way the tension goes away but what about the room what about the building last year Jerry said there was no urgency to sign CD Lamb That’s troublesome. Big Mac, Uncle Fish Premium. Isn’t the owner supposed to be the supporter? Yes. Bingo. The owner should be Rahrrah. The general manager should be the mean guy. That’s why the same guy can’t be both. Jimmy Johnson when he first got here was involved in contract negotiations and I think by the second year as I recall and I had a conversation with him about it. He goes he goes I can’t sit in the office at 9:00 a.m. and tell a player he’s not good enough to get this amount of money and then at 10:00 a.m. go out on the field with him and tell him how great he is. Jerry should have learned that lesson from Jimmy. Jerry should pick one or the other and stay and and do one and stay out of the other. Jangly, this whole thing is a show. Fire the GM. I said the other day, I’ll say it again. I think it’s I think it’s sharp. If the owner went to his general manager and said, “Why haven’t you signed Micah Parsons yet?” And the general manager said, “Well, I thought we had a handshake deal.” That general manager would get fired for incompetence. What do you mean a handshake deal? What is this? We’re not selling fruit in 1949 in Little Rock from a grocery store to Mrs. Perkins. This is a multi-billion. This is a10 billion dollar business. What do you mean a handshake deal? Jerry announced in his Parson’s takes that, well, he uh uh Mr. M, he missed six games last year. No, he didn’t. He missed four. So, I I appreciate the comment. Hey, pay me$45 million. You can say anything you want about me. Not really, though. Not really. You you you get an you get an A on your paper and your teacher says, “Well, he always gets B’s.” That’s insulting, unnecessarily, accomplishes nothing. So now the now the world, not you, but the casuals of the Nationals think that Michael Parsons missed six games last year. The general manager said he did. Ramon, $5 pitching. I guarantee you that in the locker room, Jerry Jones’s name is getting cussed. Yes. Jerry’s take takes a poke at Terrence Steel. Why? Jerry takes a poke at Trayvon. Jerry and Steven take a poke at Trayvon Digs almost every day. More attention. Is Terrence Steel a better player? because Jerry like just randomly insulted him? No. Is Diggs a happier player or a better player? No, he is not a happier one. One of the reasons that the Micah situation is so large is because Micah has chosen to use the media the way he knows how to to play the game right back, including the trade demand, which is part of the game. Is Micah serious about the trade demand or is he using as a negotiating ploy? Yes, both. JS, I doubt anyone is saying about Jones. You want to bet? Players in the locker room. JS, would you like to bet me that? Isn’t that Isn’t that why you’re here? I appreciate your doubt. Isn’t the reason you come to this show is so you can kind of get a feel what’s actually going on in the locker room? because I’ve been in there for 40 years. Why would Jerry bring up randomly when somebody says, “You hear those fans saying we want Micah?” Why would he bring up, “Well, it was louder for CD Lamb.” Why would you do that? I I almost don’t want to give credit to Jerry for that being some sort of a strategy. That’s just like um like you’re thinking out loud. You think that. You don’t say that. How do insults help the Cowboys win? Item three, the trickle down. The game of chicken and the trickle down. VJ, that’s a good question. Uh, many times over the course of 36 years, I’ve gotten a phone call from uh, and Marilyn Love, his late great girl Friday. Mac, I’ve got Jerry on the line for you. Uh, oh, miss you, Mac. many times. So, um he he also knows that I treat him with respect and he does the same for me. But many times we’ve conflicted. One time, Mr. Mike, uh you done painted your ass in a corner now. He says to me one day, the trickle down. Just think of it in terms of the human condition, your workplace, your household. You’re watching this dynamic and everybody’s watching it. Who’s going to crack first? At the end of the day, oh, it’s just business. I don’t believe Jerry and Micah are going to part ways. Parsons has said he wants to be a cowboy for life before he said he didn’t. He I I think he’s a bleed silver and blue guy. I do. Mark P. Uh Micah did indeed tweet earlier today he’s locked in with the family. He’s talking about Sam Williams fashion line, but Sam Williams plays for the Cowboys, so it’s a version of family. There’s very little sense in Jerry Jones letting a generational talent walk. So, this can all work out. Massive record setting contract, but things will crack. Maybe including maybe just a little and maybe including a locker room that is fed distrust in its own management and is distracted by the nonsense. The question that we have our thoughts on and I appreciate you’re sharing yours and it’s one that Jerry should ask himself. Smith fan, I wish Cowboys were football first and they’re not. They’re not. Sometimes Jerry Jones’s Dallas Cowboys seem like a marketing company that plays football on the side. Trademark fish. Could Jerry Jones’s style in these matters be a contributing factor to why his Cowboys haven’t been to the Super Bowl in almost 30 years? That’s the point at which you have to ask, was it worth it, Jerry? Is it worth it? This comment, that action, that move, that remark, that strategy, that delay, that silliness, is it worth it? Our argument here is that the digs, the public tension, the private tension, the missing workouts, the subtle turning of players against the front office, all the hard balling just to in the end pay the big bucks anyway, creates unnecessary drama, hints at a lack of loyalty to the players, potentially gives future stars a reason to think, I grew up a Cowboy fan. I don’t think so. And might very well contribute to a winnable game starting in Philadelphia becoming a loss. So we ask it and Jerry should eye the mirror and ask it too. Was it? Is it worth it? Jerry fish out.

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