“It was just frustration that this is going on. I can say from experience that it’s just frustrating,” Prescott said. “I hate that he’s going through it, but as I’ve told him, keep handling things the way that you are, and I believe that he should be paid.”
That frustration boiled into Parsons’ request to be traded, a somewhat unprecedented move for a Cowboys player of his caliber. It’s a difficult situation to fathom, but could Prescott imagine a world where he doesn’t have Parsons as a teammate?
“No, not necessarily,” Prescott said. “I think if I wouldn’t have been in his shoes, and watched other guys be in his shoes and get rewarded, maybe. But I’ve got faith in the Joneses and the team as I do in Micah and his team.”
“11 is a Cowboy.”
Prescott isn’t alone in that feeling, as Cowboys COO/co-owner Stephen Jones told DallasCowboys.com’s Nick Eatman in an interview on Wednesday that the team would not move Parsons.
“We have no intentions of trading Micah, and that’s part of the negotiations,” Jones said. “That’s just the nature of negotiations. I think any player that’s holding out for a contract – I think I’ve read around the league where they’ve all requested to be traded. So that’s part of it. We have no intention of trading Micah. He’s right here in camp.”