Is the Micah Parsons trade the biggest in NFL history?

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab react to the blockbuster trade between the Cowboys and Packers and its ramifications on Dallas’ long-standing image and short-term Super Bowl hopes. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I think it’s actually the biggest trade ever, and I’m going to tell you why.

NFL history.

Well, you could say, oh, what about the Herschel Walker trade?

That was all these players living in a different time when the NFL was not 24/7 now.

Everybody’s paying attention to the NFL constantly, even the Cleo Mack trade, very similar, Cleo Mack Defensive Player of the Year, probably on his way to the Hall of Fame someday.

This wasn’t the Dallas Cowboys making this trade though.

This wasn’t the Dallas Cowboys making this trade.

The Dallas Cowboys trading a superstar at the peak of his powers for two first round picks.

It doesn’t really compare to any other NFL trade as far as the reaction, as far as how much we’re going to talk about it.

The Herschel Walker trade happened, you read about it in the newspaper the next day.

That’s awesome, great, a relic from the past.

This is one we’re literally like this blows the Lukadonchik’s trade out of the water because it’s the NFL and it’s the Cowboys, and this is the team we all talk about 24/7.

I really truly think that this is the biggest trade in NFL history, just as far as the amount of attention it’s gonna get.

The amount of eyes it’s gonna get, the amount of people talking about it is gonna get, I guess it’s just unprecedented basically for the Dallas Cowboys to make a move like this.

I, am I wrong?

Am I crazy?

Am I just living off the vapors of hearing about this trade because it just seems massive to me in the moment?

Yeah, I’m having a hard time figuring out in the top of my head a bigger trade.

And also, I’m having a really hard time trying to think of it.

You’re a great historian, Frank.

When is the last time you can remember a team traded away their best player and don’t get it twisted, Michael Parsons is the best player on Dallas’s roster or was the best player on Dallas’ roster.

When’s the last time a team traded away their best player and got immediately better?

Like, because at the end of the day, they get Kenny Clarke, the defensive tackle in return and two first-round picks, 26 and the 27, to which I say, who cares?

Like if you’re a Cowboys fan, you were just sitting here a year ago and it was, we’re all in, and now, to suddenly change direction and say, we’re not, well, that seems crazy.

But that’s basically the trade.

They get Kenny Clarke, the defensive tackle in return and two first-round picks, 26 and 27, to which I say, who cares?

Like if you’re a Cowboys fan, you were just sitting here a year ago and it was, we’re all in, We’re all in.

You’ve watched your organization drag their feet to sign their quarterback and their wide receiver.

You’ve watched all of this money go out, and we’ve just presumed all summer.

I’ve presumed all summer, now incorrectly, that they would simply get it done because that’s what Jerry does.

What Jerry has just done is he’s made it tougher.

For the Cowboys to win a Super Bowl in the first year with Schottenheimer as a head coach.

So now, an organization that always seems to have some expectations, whether they’re warranted or not, and a man that always comes out and talks about Super Bowls, has just made it more difficult for the very franchise he runs to win a Super Bowl.

Like, I can’t make this, I don’t care about Jerry’s money.

I don’t care about the future cap.

I don’t care about any of that.

What just got tougher is the Cowboys’ ability to actually compete in their own division.

Is the Micah Parsons trade the biggest in NFL history?

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