{"id":114126,"date":"2025-08-02T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114126\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:56:08","slug":"jerry-jones-says-he-offered-a-lot-more-than-you-think-to-micah-parsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114126\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones says he offered &#8216;a lot more than you think&#8217; to Micah Parsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OXNARD, Calif. \u2013<\/strong> One day after Cowboys All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons released a statement requesting a trade out of Dallas, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones made clear that in his eyes, this is a negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a negotiation that goes back to March, when Jones and Parsons met at the Big 12 football conference championship game and, in Jones&#8217; mind, came to an agreement. It was one that Jones believed others would think is more than expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What y&#8217;all don&#8217;t know is what I offered him,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a hell of a lot more than you think I did. That&#8217;s what you don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That offer sat on the table for a while, but it&#8217;s no longer there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Micah took it off,&#8221; Jones said of the offer. &#8220;He took it off. That&#8217;s very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, is Jones thinking about honoring Parsons&#8217; request?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not. The facts are that I think the world of Micah, and that&#8217;s just a part of negotiation\u2026&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t place that with any real seriousness, Micah&#8217;s got a bad back. That&#8217;s like being traded, we all weight it the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Parsons&#8217; trade request sent a ripple through the fanbase and is unprecedented, Jones isn&#8217;t detoured by it at all, and remains steadfast in his belief this is all part of the negotiation process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My point is, I reached. Make no mistake about it, I reached,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;Again, let&#8217;s go back to this. This is a negotiation. Does it blow me up? Somebody to say &#8216;Look, trade me,&#8217; that&#8217;s just not a flare sign for me at all in any way. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also not something that Jones hasn&#8217;t heard of before, although there hasn&#8217;t been a player of Parsons&#8217; caliber that&#8217;s been as public as he has about his request to be dealt elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s negotiation,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard that so many times in my 30 years in the NFL from not just players, but agents, of course we all understand contract, we&#8217;re under contract, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing. We&#8217;re looking at adjusting the contract, but we&#8217;re under contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones made sure to remind everyone that he&#8217;s not been one to shy away from large financial commitments to his players, citing recent examples from just one offseason ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems like we forget that it&#8217;s been less than a year, and I&#8217;ve paid the highest that&#8217;s been paid in the NFL to Dak and I paid a big price for Lamb,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;Anybody that says I&#8217;m not interested in financially rewarding my players hasn&#8217;t been looking at the tea leaves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so, the wait continues, as Jones has made clear he has no intention of trading Parsons, but also hasn&#8217;t spoken to him since his trade request went public on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXNARD, Calif. \u2013 One day after Cowboys All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons released a statement requesting a trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50027,11138,50,1292,1296,52,46615],"class_list":{"0":"post-114126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-jerry-jones","10":"tag-micah-parsons","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-news-all-news","13":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-training-camp-central-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961644545606337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}