Patrik: I’m on record as saying the Cowboys have a ton of leverage, but not all of it. The remainder is TBD, if you will, because if the deal isn’t done by the start of the regular season, and Parsons decides to sit out Week 1, and Dallas suffers a loss to the Eagles, and if that’s due to the inability to get after Jalen Hurts, then some of that leverage will indeed slide toward Parsons; and even more so if they fall to 0-2 due to two losses within the division to begin the season (and the era of Brian Schottenheimer). That said, knowing the team basically has not one, or two, but three years of control in this situation, there’s only so much leverage Parsons can siphon away from the club though, like Emmitt Smith, that could be just enough to become the spark that lights the fire that burns away the contention and gets a deal done. Both sides can only hope things don’t continue to devolve to that point, though.
