Yahoo Sports host Andrew Siciliano and senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein discuss the Cowboys owner’s latest comments on the star defender’s trade to the Packers and why the pain from the breakup is still very raw. Check out the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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So Micah again says after the game, in terms of why it wasn’t emotional that he’s like, i kind of lost the emotions when he didn’t trade me.
If you look at the way that the Packers traded Kenny Clark, it was different.
He goes, Jerry didn’t even call me.
I would have thought he had the respect to like tell me this to my face.
So Jerry is asked about this on the radio on Tuesday, and he said, I don’t want to answer that.
But Micah told me to lose his dial.
He said, dial, not number, not phone.
He said to lose his.
So i quit calling him after that.
Take his number off his dial.
And so i think when you have this, there’s kind of a he said she said, pretty much every element of this going back to the March meeting that was maybe about leadership, maybe about a contract extension, the beginning of the end for the Cowboys and Micah Parsons.
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Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons have had wildly different stories on all parts of this.
I would say the truth, as usual is probably somewhere in between, but i think that we should remember that when hearing from them because i don’t know if you say don’t call me, like, the same way that Mike is like, well i thought i wanted to be there for life.
Well, you did ask for a trade, even if you were posturing.
So i think we have to be a little bit honest that neither side really wanted to make this work when it came down to it.
Even if somebody had said to me, lose my number or lose my dial, like does he still have a rotary phone?
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Like, anyway, i, i would still feel that i needed to be the bigger and better person, or just be the adult, not calling Micah a child, but just be an adult, to say, ok, i, i respect your wish that i, i shut up, but i still have something to say, and it comes from the heart, and i mean well.
There’s a little bit of irony here that everyone got on Jerry Jones for being too personable with his players and talking to them too directly and having Mike get in for a meeting.
And now they’re like, Jerry, why aren’t you talking to your players enough?
I think there is one element where you can be the bigger person after the breakup and another element where sometimes the person who started it or who finalized it doesn’t want to, you don’t want to hear from them anymore.
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And it’s like just cause someone can reach out to you, it doesn’t mean you’d want to hear from them.
So the main difference here in that situation is they’re still living in the same NFL world.
He’s gonna keep getting asked, and every quote becomes news, and every quote pokes the bear, and every compliment, even if well intended by saying, hey, Dak is invaluable to the franchise.
Indispensable Micah is not exactly, but Micah, we could do without.
Like any compliment will seem like a backhanded compliment.
Any compliment to anyone on the team seems like a slight to Micah.
This is never going to stop, is my point, until the guy who is quote machine stops.
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Talking about it.
But Andrew, were you and Jerry Jones differ?
Or maybe not you, but the fan who is saying, why does Jerry do this, is that Jerry doesn’t want this to stop.
His goal is not to move on from this.
His goal is to be talked about as much as possible, for us to talk about the Cowboys as much as possible, and it’s working.