August 29, 2025 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike open hour 2 continuing with their reactions to the Cowboys trading Micah Parsons to the Packers... They react to Jerry Jones' hastily-called press conference, weighing in on all of his most noteworthy quotes and explaining why he shouldn't have called a conference so quickly. Plus, the teams that got screwed over the most by this trade!
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Did it happen to that note? Micah Parsons is still
a Green Bay packer. It happened, It went down, and
you know, just for a second, because we're here. Jerry
Jones a lot of what he had to say at
a very hastily called press conference today at four thirty, Well,
I guess I gotta talk about it. Just think about
this for a second. You know, I was thinking a
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lot about Cowboys fans, and they're all insane today, right
Like I looked at I looked at the video that
Michael Fabiano put out after it happened. He looked like
he wanted to just throw stuff through his window. But
you know, to think about it, obviously, yes, because here's
a you know, Dallas in they traded Luka doncic.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Now you know they're trading like of Parsons. The DNCS thing,
at least on paper worked out, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well yeah, well, now, hey, maybe Jerry's playing chess because
this means the Cowboys love the worst record and they'll
get arch Manning, which okay, if that's how it works out,
and you had to cooper flag arch Manning, well, Luka Doncics,
I think if you could.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Do that some of that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
He's trying to get that transference of powers. So you
can say, now, picking up the defensive tackle that still
has forty million dollars on the books really flies in
the face of how much I really like the deal
in theory that that just takes takes the legs out
right from und not another first round pick, not a
second or a conditional third or whatever for next year. Now,
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let's take on a guy who's a mid defensive play. Now,
he's got three Pro Bowls in the past, but let's
take on a guy who's got two more years at
twenty plus when we're getting rid of Micah Parsons in
theory to make us worse, but we're gonna stop the run.
I talked to Nico Harrison and he said, get the
Clark kid. That's the guy you want to get. Twenty
nine years old. That's a guy. Okay, So I went
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out and got him. Clark Kent's not walking through that door.
How much did Jerry Jones say today we have to
stop the run. We have to stop oh oh okay, okay.
It's like he hasn't been in on any meetings for
the last like three years. And show to tanker Jerry,
we gotta stop the run. That's what we have to do.
We have to stop the run.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh, you could have done that in the draft. Could
have gone out and got those players in the draft
help you stop the run.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Kind of had someone slapped down a sheet that reminded
them that Game one is against the Eagles. Is like, uh,
we got to get someone to start like stop that
Barkley kid.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Ran all over again. This is why Jerry Jones lost
his fastball. To sit here and say, hey, you have
to stop the run as a way to to defend
the trade. Okay, you had free agency, you had the draft,
you had all through training camp to try to figure
out what you're gonna do to stop the run. This
is not something new that has come up over the
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course of the past week and a half. Well had
to trade mad because found out it's a rule now
this year in the NFL got to stop the run
and didn't know that was gonna happen. So we had
to adjust like you knew that like all of a sudden. Oh,
we had because we have to be able to stop
the run. I mean Jerry Jones has lost his fast Yes,
HiT's end.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
This recognized how many defensive tackles they have on the
roster and said we need we need one more.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Now we're gonna start hearing from Jerry Jones. We have
three very good, very distinct things. He said today at
his press conference following the Micah Partss trade to the Packers. Oh,
by the way, in case you just found out, yes,
Micah Parsons are the Packers one hundred and eighty eight
million dollars four years, most most money for a non
quarterback in NFL history. The Cowboys get back defensive tackle
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Kenny Clark and two first round picks.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Send him to the team that embarrassed you two years ago,
the Jordan Love perfect game.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
He had that one fifty eight point three. God, we
gotta get it. So here's the first thing he said,
which is just the run. It's just I mean to
stop the run. I mean really, I can't get past
stop the run. I can't. I can't get past stop
the run. Uh. You know we just figured out you
gotta stop the run again? No fed Jerry Jones fastball
business fastball went from ninety five to like seventy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But even when he was at his business best, what
was what was the football world?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
When he came into the league? Run the football.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So here's the first thing Jerry Jones had to say.
Uh talking about the trade of Michael Wait, hang on,
hang a second, hang on second, Michael, Sorry, Micah Parsons.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The other thing that I would like to say is
I firmly did me might have commitment to Michael this spring.
Michaeh uh and paid him and to pay him.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, so he's paying Michael Parsons. Oh, I thought that
was another guy that I could get. Apparently the other
guy named Michael is. I thought it was Michael Parson
that was on all the paperwork. Yeah, this is where
it gets com because I watched it, because I watched
a Better Call Saul episode where Jimmy change a number
on the on the address and all of a sudden,
Chuck goes into court. You know, was he Lenny or Squiggy?
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I forget? He was one of the ones. He'd walk
in and say hello, Laverne. They would say, who could
possibly be that stupid? And they'd walk in the door going,
oh hello. Uh anyway, so that was the lander kid
with squeaky chuck down. Oh he was. He was the
announcer in the League of their Own that Madonna movie
where she was a star.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh uh uh, I'm sorry, uh uh? Who's who are
we talking about? Who were telling? Uh? So, you know, Michael,
the Michael Parsons thing. Uh, the whole thing with with Parsons.
And this is part of what Jerry doesn't get. And
this is why this press conference was so defensive and
Jerry didn't sound like he shouldn't have done it. He
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shouldn't have done this because there's no way, there's no
way you sound good. There's no way you sound right.
Wait a day and have stuff, so you know what
you're gonna say at the end of a long day.
What happened again? I mean, this is not anything, but
at the end of a long day. You're in your
eighties and this is a day that's a lot of stuff.
Very emotionally. Hey, look I'm in my fifties. I would say,
let's do the press conference to Brobble, I don't know
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that I'm operating at peak efficiency. And he was defensive
the entire time, and he said things that he shouldn't
have said, the whole stop the run thing. You look stupid,
you look oh, just gotta stop the run. And now
this where he said, I had an agreement with Mike,
gonna pay him right. This is where we're going, and
not the Michael part. The Michael part was just fun,
But I had an agreement. Hang on the NFLPA, this
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is not quote super legal for you to negotiate a
contract with a player and not their representation. Now, technically
we don't know if the Cowboys broke any rules. But
Jerry Jones is saying, uh no, we're gonna let you
know that maybe I did. Like, like how many times
has he said we had a deal. I had a
deal with him? Wait, no, you're not supposed to have
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a deal. You can talk anything you want to with
a player, tell you anything you want, but money you're
not supposed to do. The NFLPA frowns on that a
little bit. Now, the NFLPA hasn't jumped in yet because
what they are waiting for a smoking gun. Man. I
can't believe it's if you need more of a smoking
gun than Jerry Jones said. I thought we sit at.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
The table that has an idea of what the hell's
going up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But this is But this is Jerry Jones who wants
to wants to say we had a deal in paint.
Micah Parsons out to be the bad guy so much
that I'm willing to throw out there that maybe I
did something illegal and we're gonna lose a draft pick.
Maybe that's why you had to go get the two
draft picks. He's gonna lose a draft ck like I am.
So he's he's so intent on saying we had a deal.
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I'm not the bad guy that I'm gonna let it
out there that potentially I would have broken all sorts
of negotiated with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, but that's just thick.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You get caught in, you know, get your hand in
the cookie jar, right, Hey, did you take that?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
As a little kid, right, Zoe was little, when my
kids were little. Hey, you know what, I went to
bed last night and the cookie jar was full here
this morning and had, uh like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You woke up in the middle of the night, came
down and ate the cookies, went back to bed. I
saw you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Now, if that was on video, that would be impressive.
Hashtag gaslighting. That's got That's exactly what it might have happened.
But with with Jerry and this, it's the spirit versus
letter of the law. I think when it comes down
to this, Hey, he might have been smooth talking Micah
to the point of just very general terms, if we're
gonna make you higher paid than this guy, that guy,
the other guy and everything else, and you know Micah
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nodding along, going okay, cool and that and that, in
Jerry's mind constituted of we've got a framework of a deal.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This is this is and again, you're right, it's it's
one of the it's a situation where did he break
rules in the NFL and the cowboy should lose a
draft pick? Did he not? It's right at the edge
of that. No, that's it right, So did the fact
that he is. So he's okay with throwing that out there.
He's the guy. He's the villain in the movie right
in the law thriller where they have that where the
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you know, the protagonist and the and the and the
and the bad guy have that one moment in court
and the lawyer or the cop says, I know you
did it. I'm gonna take you down. And what you're
supposed to say, if you're the defense, say I'm innocent.
I didn't do anything. You are you are wrapped up
in your own head with this. Instead, the bad guy says,
prove it right, And that's oh, so you're telling me
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you did it. Now you're telling me I can't prove it.
I gotta go out to prove its. Imagine this is
Jerry Jones is not saying, hey, you know, Mica and
I we had great conversations and I thought we were
gonna have a deal, and what happened here where the
agent was bad? Oh no, we had a deal. Oh Jerry, No,
we had a deal. I had a deal.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
That's just it, right, How much of it goes down
and dispussed ficity versus you know, we want you a
cowboy forever. You're really important to us. All the smooth talking,
slap on the back. You know, you're like a son
to me, not like that's Stephen, you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Know, just keep going on down. Not him. He's been
disappointing because you know, I clearly we don't have Michael
Parsons anymore, and we don't have the Manzel kid.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So you still talking.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I lose you. So I'm gonna blame it on Steven.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm going I got my kid rankings coming up, and
Steven's dropping down the rankings and my favorite kids and
so you know he's gonna drop down that.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
List, Like how would you like to slide to number one?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No, but but all of that to you know, the
the letter in spirit of the law, in terms of
what he thought constituted a deal. Right again, he's old enough,
and I think there are still some places and I
want to say it's it's a full on yesterdyear. But
normally there's some paperwork that follows up pretty quickly. Right
in this case, it would be an agency uh in
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movie Leta's office.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
At least getting over a term sheet, if not something
with everything else spelled out all the other you know,
specific clauses, bonuses, et cetera, and all of that down
the line. But you'd at least have some official paperwork.
All right, let's take this to the next step. It's
like you go in to buy a car, you look
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at a house, whatever, like yeah, you might say, oh,
all right, we'll take it. Well, all right, you're preapproved
for an amount.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Find great.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Guess what, They're gonna run your numbers again and again
and again. If the person really doesn't want to move,
they're gonna do it nine to twenty five times before
you actually get to go sign any paperwork. But just
because in princ of all, we'll take it like you do,
you have the back you to do it. I don't know
yet we're gonna find out. That's kind of where Jerry
Jones is. He wanted that most expensive beach property in
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Micah Parsons and then uh, well, it came to rite
to check it is.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I mean, it is really something for Jerry Jones. And
now here's the coupe degras right, here's here's my degras.
I love the the coup de gras. This is my
full favorite from Jerry Jones today talking about the Micah
Parts trade. Again, you get defensive tackle Kenny Clark, you
get two first round picks from Michaeh Parsons. And here's
Jerry Jones saying how good the Cowboys are after this trade?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
This gives us a better chance to be a better
team than we have been the last few several years
since Micah's been here. Not any negative on Micah, but
we're trying to get better. We're trying to stop the
run and stay in the hunt.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So how are they better when they traded a better
Now you got two first round picks. You never know
who they could wind up beings. If you wind up
with the worst record and you get arch Manning, things
will work out. But how are you better today when
you got a defensive tackle who, yes, does have Pro
Bowls on his resume, but his twenty nine is do
a decent amount of money coming off his worst year
in the NFL with one sack and one of the
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lowest pass rush win rates in the NFL as well?
How are you better off of trading Micah Parsons getting
him now the two first round picks. But that's not
till April. That's not till April. Right. This is a
you are a way worse team today than you were
twenty four hours ago. And I don't know how you
can spin that going forward. And I don't know how
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you can spend that and say, yeah, what we did
today it makes us potentially, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, I think there's again it's a matter of time,
down and distance right where we're doing this on the
eve of a new football season. It's it's the messaging
doesn't work in a grand scale. I agree with him
until the whole stop the run thing, like if he'd
stopped before that sentence. From a football perspective, the chance
is there to be a better team? Why because it'll
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be well rounded. We've talked a lot about being top heavy,
something Dallas has done for a very long time. So
when we're trying to round out a full roster, you
would then end up going to the bargain basement for
reclamation projects. Guys who've burned out somewhere else, they got
in trouble, they got hurt, or they just weren't good
in whatever system, and now you think you're going to
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bring them in fix them, and the magical Lickxer is
just a star on the side of their helmet. Right.
So in terms of the actual football operations, this also
becomes the do you trust the people that are picking
said groceries? Right, because that's it. You get two draft picks,
but you gave up you get Kenny Clark again. I
feel like this poor guy is gonna get absolutely murdered
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in this whole process. Yeah, because he has been a
good player in the past. Problem is he's very expensive
to be. You know, he's the equivalent of the jobb
or at the beginning of the dark matches of a
WWE event like go in there, you're Buryoh, get after it.
That's what he's got to take on in this role.
So you gotta you didn't help yourself from the dollars
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and cents at least for two years in that regard.
But in terms of flexibility long term, sure, you got
two draft picks that could be done, right, Trust that
the Cowboys are gonna get that right. History would say no.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
No, And that's the thing that people forget draft picks
is not hey, here's two star players. It's you gotta
get it right. The other thing is that are gonna.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Be pack your l.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, they're gonna be still a middling team. Again, Jed,
you shouldn't have done this press conference there, you made.
You made a bad he made he continues to make
a bad situation worse, and that he made a bad
situation worse in beginning of August, throughout August, and then
today by saying ridiculous things that no Cowboys fan is
gonna buy, No Cowboys fan bites any of that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, don't don't talk about stopping the run. Should have
just cut that sentence off. You good from the straight
football day. And again it's like I argued with Joe Shane,
wasn't what he was saying was wrong, but the reality
of of how you do it and and how it
plays out in the public theater.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You look the.
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you another really big trade in the NFL a few
years ago. Plus the three teams outside of the Dallas
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with Micah Parsons, now remember the Green Bay Packers. It's
time to say this because there's three teams I feel
really bad for because this trade screws of Dallas Cowboys
number one from being good. But this also screws the Lions,
the Bears, and the vikings all to different extents.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Now, to be fair, the Cowboys were never going to
be good, no.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But still it's your fan base and the Cowboys nation
has to deal with this the entire time. I mean,
think about you know, we talked about the fans a
little bit ago. I told you how mad you know everything?
What does this mean for the players? Think about what
this means for the Cowboys that have to sit here
and say, well, how did this happen? Right, We're trying
to get ready to play a season and Jerry Jones
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pulled the rug out from under us by trading our
best defensive player and the best defensive player in the game.
Who is an ascendant player that you signed, that you keep,
that you don't trade. You don't trade twenty four year
old guys who are that good in that domb, that
can get the quarterback, that clearly have that kind of
talent level. What messages that send to the team, Oh yeah,
well we'll be good at some point? Like this is
right before the season. Man, this is not something that
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happened in April, and there's time to get by it
because you'll sign players in free agency or you'll see
that some rookie draft picks. This is why we let
this guy go because we have his replacement. We liked
him in the draft. This is right before the season
and you're told, yeah, I'm pulling the plug on the
season because we're not a better team today than we
were a few hours ago. Like, how do what does
that do to like Dak and and and to Lamb
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and and to all the all the players and and
and to Brian Schottenheimer who are sitting at you're trying
to send a message that we're gonna go win. We're out,
we're out to dominate and be great again. I mean,
what does that to everything you're playing for? It's like
you said, hey, we're punting on the season again. We're
punting on this now.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah. It's the difficulty of trying to parse between uh,
business and business all right, this is on the field
versus the players looking around going well there, there's there's
a new way of doing things around here.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Guys normally got paid.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
So if you're one of the those guys that was
looking at the next up and there's not an obvious
guy on the roster to that end, right, because both
Dak and CD have already got paid, which is why
they're getting dragged and all of this stuff. But you
don't have that obvious next man up. So I guess
that points to some degree is rendered moot. But it's
also a all right, it's we go into the year
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we don't have Micah. I still have to play for
my job now. I if I'm on the defensive side
of the ball, I'm a little salty because it changes
how I'm gonna be viewed, right, because we're gonna be worse.
So some of those metrics that I might have been
judged by trying to get my next deal, be it
at Dallas somewhere else, might be a little a fewer dollars,
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a lower dollar amount that comes flying through, and maybe
fewer suitors if there's enough bad tape that isn't covered
up by a guy parsons acumen on there. Offensively, you
knew you were already gonna be the NFC version of
the Bengals for the most part.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh, hey, you're gonna have outscore. Yeah, And then that
was fine, right, that was fine. And still, hey, teams
have to sit back and say, we got a game
plan around Michael Parsons around it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You're you're brought in the first first year head coach.
You're planning he's gonna be here. It's like he's been
telling himself lies, Like he's Al Franken sitting there staring
into the mirror. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough. This
is gonna work right, This is gonna work right.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And then no, this is like this is again. You
think about the message it sends for the cowboy, like
it's so hard that five days or six six days
before the regular season, spore you start your regular season.
It's oh yeah, we're punting on this year. Basically, wow man.
And to also basically to tell how we gave Dak
all that money and and Dax's you know, Dak's gonna
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be a guy. We're very happy we gave him all
that cash. Like whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on, I understand
when there's times when you have to say, Dak Prescott's
got to give us more, but Jerry, don't give me
the old misdirection of hey, remember we gave Dak Prescott
all this money and we didn't. So that's basically what
he's saying is that, hey, remember last year, we gave
a guy more money than we've ever given anybody in
the history of the franchise, and we didn't win, right,
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that's the implied that's the implied statement there as I remember,
So Dak is a guy that we gave money to.
We're glad to remember. So now Jerry Jones is saying, hey,
don't focus on the fact that we didn't pay Micah Parsons.
Remember we gave money to Dak. So if it doesn't
work out, he's the guy you blame. Rights. Don't blame
me for trading Micah Parsons, it's you blame Ak. The
fact that he had to bring Dak up in this
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and and in such an insistent way was so I was.
I was like, wow, he really is grasping its straws
well in this situation.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Let's literally hit the rewind button in rewind to use
my best Ahmad Rashot. The idea you got you gotta
go look it up is the idea that when Dak
was on the board to get signed, how many debates
did we have? You and I, but also the larger
NFL analysis business about whether you should pay Dak right,
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whether you should pay the piper based on what he
had been and the levels that you had reached with
him and everything else. So to now say, well, I mean,
we did what you wanted. We gave you Dak, and
look what it's gotten us that you can't have both ways. Like,
Dak was a guy that there were a lot of questions,
but because he was a lower round pick that Jerry
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hit on, he made sure to let you know when
it was time. Now he dragged it out cost himself
money in that regard. That's why all along with this,
no matter how personal they got, you figured there was
a check big enough. H Now look now here again
if you think I'm lying, because I'm not, because remember
I told you Dak was a Dak.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I told you Da Dak was that Doc got the
wrong guy in my head. Now told you Michael was
gonna get traded a month ago. Here's Jerry Jones today,
just suddenly bringing up Dak Scott out of the blue
to make sure people understand he's the guy you got.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
To help, the fast paid player in the NFL, a quarterback,
and we made that commitment last year and we're proud
and had everything to do with his decision.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Everything it is.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Give us every opportunity with Dak, Prescott and Lamb and
the base that we've got to win now, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So okay, so wait, so you're winning now by trading
away the best defensive player but not giving Micah Parsons money.
Has everything to do the fact that you gave Dak
Prescott all that money last year. It's like, I get,
I look, I understand. Dak is a good quarterback. He's
a top fifteen quarterback in the NFL. Some years he's
a he's a top ten quarterback when he is healthy.
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He's got weapons around him. Deak's a Dak's a really
good quarterback. Uh. But Jerry Jones is basically now like
he's he's gone, he's gone off the deep end with
just this had everything to do with the fact that
we gave Dak all that money last year and now
we can win with Dek. Oh wait, so you didn't
need Michael Parsons really didn't need him. Didn't need Michael
Parsons really really didn't You didn't need the best friends player,
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didn't need him.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But this again goes back to the all right, things
you could have told me yesterday or recognized yesterday, or
before the draft or before any of this became a thing.
Because we scroll it back of again, decide how much
better on a wins loss base basis, Micah Parts makes
your team and then and then stuffed unrabble. Right, the
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separating player from team Michael Parts could be really good,
but what does that mean for what you're building around him?
And I and I don't mean this in a in
a place where you're competent. Cowboys have shown that they
can't figure out the rest of that eleven. No disrespected
Digs when he's healthy, but they haven't gotten that side
of the ball right for a long time. Well, Doomsday
(25:43):
defense was really good, Yeah, you know, I mean, I
mean five Randy White and Harvey Martin, they were terrific. Yeah,
but look like Cowboys, we're going back with Charlie's Angels
was still there.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Come on, That's why I'm saying my name is Charlie.
That's why it's Look, the Cowboys got screwed the most today,
but the other three teams that got screwed just about
as much, the Bears, Vikings, and the Lions. Because the
Lions this was a Super Bowl. It is a Super
Bowler bust year. They're thinking of winning this division. Yes,
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the Packers are a good team, and then making the playoff. Sure,
one hundred percent, right, I'm in on that Jordan Love
is healthy again. That you know that you keep drafting
wide receivers, eventually it's gonna work out, right. They got weapons,
they have a running back they can trust. So yeah,
I'm in on them being a good team. But the
Lions were gonna run this division, and the Bears were hoping, hey,
we need some big positive bits of growth from Caleb Williams.
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You gotta win a few games here and maybe we
stay around five hundred. The Vikings are saying, we got
to keep it going. From last year. There's pressure for
us to prove that we didn't make a huge mistake
by trading away, by letting Sam Darnold go and going
all in on JJ McCarthy. All of that has gotten
markedly more difficult with Parsons showing up in Green Bay
where he's a plug and play guy, and the Packers
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are saying, yeah, now, now look at us, See that
the odds for them to win division just went What
are they plus one twenty five now to win the division?
Like this is now a Lions team that says, hey,
suddenly playing on the road in the playoffs becomes a
big thing. And if you're the Lions, you don't want
to play on the rub when you have a high
octane offense. You don't want to play on the road
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in the plass. You don't want to play in Lambeau
in the plasts. You don't want to play some ways
where it's really cold or swirling wins. You want to
play at home.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I realize they lost in them last year, but still
the Lions now suddenly saying, hey, this division, it's going
to be it's gonna be an absolute dog fight for
us just to get out of here. And the Vikings said,
it's going to be a dog fight for us to
make the playoffs and prove that we're still on the
same with the same path. With injured receivers and Adam
Thielen his back, this made it more difficult, and the
Bears all of a sudden their path to Hey, here's
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the first year with Ben Johnson, we have weapons, we
drafted Colston Lovelin, we are feeling great. All of these
teams are now their success just got downgraded because not
that suddenly they were going to beat the Packers in
every game, right, but it was, hey, this is another
team in our division that went from being hey, they're
pretty good. And this is how it works, right, there's
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a couple of good teams in every division. Maybe it's
our your now it's whoa. They just became an elite team.
And now there's two elite teams in the division, and
the other elite team is now pissed that this team
became elite. And now the two teams that want to
become a leader man, and now they're standing in their way.
They got The Lions got screwed the most because they
have the most they could go the furthest of any
team this year. And then probably it's the Vikings because
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then the mistake of JJ McCarthy would come back in,
you know, tenfold, and then the Bears. So at least
the Bears got screwed the least in this, but they
still get screwed more than you know, the other twenty
six teams.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, they had a lot of a lot of questions
still coming in. We'll do plenty of analysis watching and
we'll watch Catlin Williams and JJ McCarthy get after a
week one. Just roll the ball out and just let
them fight against each other. And there you go to
Brian Flores against Ben Johnson. That'll be fun anyway. Packers
currently the favorite plus one seventy five Lions sitting right
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behind plus two hundred Vikings plus three twenty five Bears
all the way down at plus five fifty plus six hundred. Yeah,
I mean it does change the map of it earlier today,
looking at win totals before the trade goes down, you're
looking at the Lions. We're at ten and a half
wins for the year, the Packers at nine and a half,
Both Bears and Vikings at eight and a half, and
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I think there's been a lot of push for both
of those even before this move today for a little
bit of downward pressure in both of those respects. But yeah,
for Green Bay, it's really just one of those. As
we talked about the move potentially coming into focus, you know,
Mark Murphy's no longer the guy in charge under Mark Murphy,
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does this deal goes down, does he pay them all legitimately? Right?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
The change it.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Is to give up like that, it's a lot for them,
his force retirement, but not just that one hundred and
eighty eight million dollar contract. Yeah, like that is so Unpackers.
Like so the last couple of days we've been talking
about that, rumors starting to bubble a little, and it
was out there in the outposts of the interwebs of
the thing with the guy in the place, no blue
check marks. But I was like, okay, swirling a little bit.
(30:10):
And we've had stories that have been broken by don
you know, big shots on television networks.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
But all of a.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Sudden they started going and the war I started thinking about.
It's like, well, you got to change at the top.
So how much of that is hey, you know what
we're moving in? Like like Jerry is it? So they
pushed away from Rogers.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
They pushed away from Rogers at the end when when
Gurdacus was making the moves, and so yeah, it's it's
kind of a new day and in Green Bay, but
a little bit of a different way to do business.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Those Terry Young team and you bring in Micro Parson.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Cowboys got screwed, then the Lions, then the Vikings, then
the Bears. At least you're again, at least you're at
the bottom of tea. Got screwed.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
No, until he's coming off the edge unchecked.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Like I'm sitting here, going man, they didn't trade him
to the AFC How happy am I about that?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I'm not screwing all of a sudden he ran up
in Buffalo on those icy units, or he became the
perfect guy from Mike Vrabel to unleash on you that
could have gotten ugly in a hurry time.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from someone who is just six days away
from bringing me two key Key Hernandez bottle heads.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
It's Monty Belos, six days away your mathane mathin.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, you're gonna get him on the thirty first.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The next day you're going to get them. You're gonna
get I don't care. Listen, I don't care when you
get them. The next time I'm going to see you
is Wednesday, and that's when I need the bibble. If
I make it to Dodger Stadium by then, What do
you mean if you work for the Dodgers, I do
put something.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
My schedule changes week to week.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
It doesn't change. When you talking to your schedule changes changes.
You sound like Micah Parsons agent. You want to change
it in terms of.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Negotiation, it does change.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Is there a home stand? Is there not a home stand?
All of those things matter.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know, there's a thing called the schedule you look
at to so you know it comes out weigh in advanced.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
If they're played here versus they're playing on the road,
it's different.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
There's no flexible scheduling in Major League Baseball in August.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
And no flexibility for Jerry Jones right when it comes
to this Michael Parsons situation as he goes to the Packers,
the Cowboys are gonna get two first round draft picks
and three time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark. Of course,
Parsons is now the highest non paid or the highest
paid non quarterback in NFL history, a four year, one
hundred and eighty eight million dollar extension one hundred and
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thirty six million in total guarantees. Other NFL news, Buccaneers
general manager Jason light said today that he expects wide
receiver Chris Godwin to miss at least the first month
of the season recovering from that ankle injury. We'll check
in on the US Open fourteen seed Tommy Paul in
his second round match right now. He won his first
two sets. He's in his third set right now. He's
(32:53):
tied at five games a piece, but already one seed.
Yanick Center won his second round match. He's headed to
the third round. On the women's side, two seed Egos
Fiatik and three seed Cocoa Golf, they're advancing to the
third round. When it comes to baseball, the last three
games of the day have wrapped up. The Phillies crushed
the Braves nineteen to four, Kyle Schwarber four home runs,
a career high forty nine home runs on the season,
(33:14):
also a career high one hundred and nineteen rbi on
the season. The Marlins outscored the Mets seven four, and
the Yankees beat the White Sox ten to four.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
In the WNBA.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Angel Resa's nine points and seventeen rebounds in the Sky
are losing to the Mercury sixty seven to sixty three
with about six minutes to go in the game.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Back to you guys, Hey, you very bunch. Mont. Did
you do the Angel rees over under for rebounds tonight?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I did not.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
If anyone did, I hope they did over because she's
got seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I thought you you can go the over for rebound.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Yeah, no, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
I messed up, messed up trying to get that bubble ahead.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I know what would be the over under for that
is too just so coming up next, we have more
on the big Micah Parsons trade. The trade that this
trade is being compared to. It's kind of a shocker
because it really doesn't make sense. But it's next, Okay.
I can say a lot about this show. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
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Speaker 1 (34:19):
Mica Parsons is a Green Bay Packer. Jerry got some
draft picks, the defensive tackle. The team is way worse
than it was This morning.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my bes
friend Mike Harmon. He's crazy like a fox, crazy like
a fox. So the Micah Parsons trade goes down today
and it's Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers for
two first round picks and defensive tackle. Kenny Clark's twenty
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nine Pro Bowls in his pasty, but coming off his
worst year in the NFL getting paid a decent amount
of money for the next couple of years.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
He signed a three year, sixty four million dollars deal.
He still has two years left un said deal.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah it's gonna be thirty yeah. Okay. So here's this
big deal that is done right before the regular season
and already today, like right away when this happened, it
was and this is the only way Cowboys fans could
try to spin this forward, it was maybe it's our
new herschel Walker deal, right, like one of the most
famous trades in sports history, when the Vikings, thinking they
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were just a running back away from winning the Super
Bowl back in the late eighties, traded a plethora of
draft picks to the cow that would you say it
was a plethora, a plethora of draft picks to the
Dallas Cowboys in exchange for herschel Walker. All these draft
picks the Cowboys used to draft basically every lynchpin of
the nineties dynasty that was the Cowboys, right, the herschel
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Walker trade remade the Dallas Cowboys again before Jerry Jones
bought the team. But that's the only thing that Cowboys
fans are really holding on to is that maybe this
is our herschel Walker trade. Okay, you got two picks,
not seventeen, right, So there's that. And secondly, people, the
thing that people forget about draft picks is that a
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draft pick is not great in and of itself. It's
like having the key to a room that's got money
in it, right, Like I got the key, where's the room? Oh?
Well that I gotta figure out. You have the draft picks,
but you gotta get it right. And the Cowboys have
not shown that they get things right nearly enough to
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build a team to compete. They're a top every team
every year. They have to take chances in the draft
to get players that nobody wants because well, what else
are we gonna do? They have not drafted well. They
keep a top heavy team every year. They're just good
enough to when when they're healthy, to maybe win ten games. Right.
That's that's the Cowboys ceiling and the Cowboys reality what
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they see in Dallas. That's not RealD. We got to
get to the super Bowl. It's been years, so to
think that this is gonna be the heharsal, No, it's not.
Because you don't have enough picks and you gotta get
it right. And the Cowboys are shown they haven't gotten
it right. You don't want do you really want Jerry
Jones to have these draft picks that, oh, by the way,
are likely gonna come in the twenties. It's not like
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we made a trade and we got two top ten picks.
You know we're gonna get two absolute dynasty makers and
franchise guys that we're gonna have for a decade. No,
you're gonna have two picks in the twenties, right, That's
what it's likely gonna be for the Packers, because they're
too good to be one of those teams suddenly falls
all the way off and loses all the way. They're
too solid all the way around. They're not losing a
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quarterback away from being terrible. They're not losing a wide
receiver away from being terrible. These are gonna be two
picks in the twenties that they have to get right,
and the Cowboys are shown we don't know that we
can do it. So would you say it's a herschel
Walker trade? I would say yeah, if I had more
confidence that you do what you were doing when it
came to filling these holes. But I've seen you build
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a roster for thirty years and it's not been good enough.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Well, if you're able to spin those picks, then they
multiply or something. If that's somehow the Wayne, you can
pull this like Rabbits. Like Rabbits I said, but we
made the two picks and suddenly it's four picks. But
you know you have to you have a pick, and
then you you take your pick, and then you can
parlay that and move up and whatever to get yourself
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something bigger.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
But all because you're gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Remember, like, let's just say you've got a twenty third
pick because the Packers, Yeah, Cowboys one is gonna be
a top ten. Yeah, so the shoot together might be useful, Yeah,
to get you up into the territory for whatever place.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Number is the number.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Six and the number twenty eight enough to get us
up to number two.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That's kind of kind of where we're at and looking
at this process, all right. So from that angle perspective,
you know you start off by talking about being top heavy.
Well that's the one part of this where Jerry, even
if he doesn't realize it, actually makes sense. Even though
he pulled in a guy that's making twenty twenty million
dollars a year, yeah, as a middling defense down and
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I feel bad.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
He's a three time pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Guys had a great career, yep, And unfortunately he's in
the jag territory with a heavy contract. This is the
expiring contract you're gonna take. Problem is for Jeriot doesn't expire.
He's got two years. No, it's not left on it.
But all of that, then to say, is you're getting
to where you're gonna be able to be more functional
and spread that money around. So yes, in theory, the
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problem is they're still in the charge and still the
Jones is making those picks. Yeah, it's great to have those,
but you gotta be able to do something with.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Them, right.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
If it's the packers front off, it's great. Look, it's
great to Lynch. Great, it's great that I have chocolate
chips and chocolate chip dough.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
If I don't know how to make the cookies, that
doesn't help me at it. I mean, I just have
to eat it all raw. But I mean, do you
see mean it would be better if I did that
coming up next. If you listen to us, you would
have known this trade was gonna happen a month ago.
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Did it happen to that note? Micah Parsons is still
a Green Bay packer. It happened, It went down, and
you know, just for a second, because we're here. Jerry
Jones a lot of what he had to say at
a very hastily called press conference today at four thirty, Well,
I guess I gotta talk about it. Just think about
this for a second. You know, I was thinking a
(01:17):
lot about Cowboys fans, and they're all insane today, right
Like I looked at I looked at the video that
Michael Fabiano put out after it happened. He looked like
he wanted to just throw stuff through his window. But
you know, to think about it, obviously, yes, because here's
a you know, Dallas in they traded Luka doncic.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Now you know they're trading like of Parsons. The DNCS thing,
at least on paper worked out, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well yeah, well, now, hey, maybe Jerry's playing chess because
this means the Cowboys love the worst record and they'll
get arch Manning, which okay, if that's how it works out,
and you had to cooper flag arch Manning, well, Luka Doncics,
I think if you could.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Do that some of that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
He's trying to get that transference of powers. So you
can say, now, picking up the defensive tackle that still
has forty million dollars on the books really flies in
the face of how much I really like the deal
in theory that that just takes takes the legs out
right from und not another first round pick, not a
second or a conditional third or whatever for next year. Now,
(02:14):
let's take on a guy who's a mid defensive play. Now,
he's got three Pro Bowls in the past, but let's
take on a guy who's got two more years at
twenty plus when we're getting rid of Micah Parsons in
theory to make us worse, but we're gonna stop the run.
I talked to Nico Harrison and he said, get the
Clark kid. That's the guy you want to get. Twenty
nine years old. That's a guy. Okay, So I went
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out and got him. Clark Kent's not walking through that door.
How much did Jerry Jones say today we have to
stop the run. We have to stop oh oh okay, okay.
It's like he hasn't been in on any meetings for
the last like three years. And show to tanker Jerry,
we gotta stop the run. That's what we have to do.
We have to stop the run.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh, you could have done that in the draft. Could
have gone out and got those players in the draft
help you stop the run.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Kind of had someone slapped down a sheet that reminded
them that Game one is against the Eagles. Is like, uh,
we got to get someone to start like stop that
Barkley kid.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Ran all over again. This is why Jerry Jones lost
his fastball. To sit here and say, hey, you have
to stop the run as a way to to defend
the trade. Okay, you had free agency, you had the draft,
you had all through training camp to try to figure
out what you're gonna do to stop the run. This
is not something new that has come up over the
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course of the past week and a half. Well had
to trade mad because found out it's a rule now
this year in the NFL got to stop the run
and didn't know that was gonna happen. So we had
to adjust like you knew that like all of a sudden. Oh,
we had because we have to be able to stop
the run. I mean Jerry Jones has lost his fast Yes,
HiT's end.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
This recognized how many defensive tackles they have on the
roster and said we need we need one more.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Now we're gonna start hearing from Jerry Jones. We have
three very good, very distinct things. He said today at
his press conference following the Micah Partss trade to the Packers. Oh,
by the way, in case you just found out, yes,
Micah Parsons are the Packers one hundred and eighty eight
million dollars four years, most most money for a non
quarterback in NFL history. The Cowboys get back defensive tackle
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Kenny Clark and two first round picks.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Send him to the team that embarrassed you two years ago,
the Jordan Love perfect game.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
He had that one fifty eight point three. God, we
gotta get it. So here's the first thing he said,
which is just the run. It's just I mean to
stop the run. I mean really, I can't get past
stop the run. I can't. I can't get past stop
the run. Uh. You know we just figured out you
gotta stop the run again? No fed Jerry Jones fastball
business fastball went from ninety five to like seventy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But even when he was at his business best, what
was what was the football world?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
When he came into the league? Run the football.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So here's the first thing Jerry Jones had to say.
Uh talking about the trade of Michael Wait, hang on,
hang a second, hang on second, Michael, Sorry, Micah Parsons.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The other thing that I would like to say is
I firmly did me might have commitment to Michael this spring.
Michaeh uh and paid him and to pay him.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, so he's paying Michael Parsons. Oh, I thought that
was another guy that I could get. Apparently the other
guy named Michael is. I thought it was Michael Parson
that was on all the paperwork. Yeah, this is where
it gets com because I watched it, because I watched
a Better Call Saul episode where Jimmy change a number
on the on the address and all of a sudden,
Chuck goes into court. You know, was he Lenny or Squiggy?
(05:29):
I forget? He was one of the ones. He'd walk
in and say hello, Laverne. They would say, who could
possibly be that stupid? And they'd walk in the door going,
oh hello. Uh anyway, so that was the lander kid
with squeaky chuck down. Oh he was. He was the
announcer in the League of their Own that Madonna movie
where she was a star.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh uh uh, I'm sorry, uh uh? Who's who are
we talking about? Who were telling? Uh? So, you know, Michael,
the Michael Parsons thing. Uh, the whole thing with with Parsons.
And this is part of what Jerry doesn't get. And
this is why this press conference was so defensive and
Jerry didn't sound like he shouldn't have done it. He
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shouldn't have done this because there's no way, there's no
way you sound good. There's no way you sound right.
Wait a day and have stuff, so you know what
you're gonna say at the end of a long day.
What happened again? I mean, this is not anything, but
at the end of a long day. You're in your
eighties and this is a day that's a lot of stuff.
Very emotionally. Hey, look I'm in my fifties. I would say,
let's do the press conference to Brobble, I don't know
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that I'm operating at peak efficiency. And he was defensive
the entire time, and he said things that he shouldn't
have said, the whole stop the run thing. You look stupid,
you look oh, just gotta stop the run. And now
this where he said, I had an agreement with Mike,
gonna pay him right. This is where we're going, and
not the Michael part. The Michael part was just fun,
But I had an agreement. Hang on the NFLPA, this
(06:51):
is not quote super legal for you to negotiate a
contract with a player and not their representation. Now, technically
we don't know if the Cowboys broke any rules. But
Jerry Jones is saying, uh no, we're gonna let you
know that maybe I did. Like, like how many times
has he said we had a deal. I had a
deal with him? Wait, no, you're not supposed to have
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a deal. You can talk anything you want to with
a player, tell you anything you want, but money you're
not supposed to do. The NFLPA frowns on that a
little bit. Now, the NFLPA hasn't jumped in yet because
what they are waiting for a smoking gun. Man. I
can't believe it's if you need more of a smoking
gun than Jerry Jones said. I thought we sit at.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
The table that has an idea of what the hell's
going up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But this is But this is Jerry Jones who wants
to wants to say we had a deal in paint.
Micah Parsons out to be the bad guy so much
that I'm willing to throw out there that maybe I
did something illegal and we're gonna lose a draft pick.
Maybe that's why you had to go get the two
draft picks. He's gonna lose a draft ck like I am.
So he's he's so intent on saying we had a deal.
(07:55):
I'm not the bad guy that I'm gonna let it
out there that potentially I would have broken all sorts
of negotiated with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, but that's just thick.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You get caught in, you know, get your hand in
the cookie jar, right, Hey, did you take that?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
As a little kid, right, Zoe was little, when my
kids were little. Hey, you know what, I went to
bed last night and the cookie jar was full here
this morning and had, uh like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You woke up in the middle of the night, came
down and ate the cookies, went back to bed. I
saw you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Now, if that was on video, that would be impressive.
Hashtag gaslighting. That's got That's exactly what it might have happened.
But with with Jerry and this, it's the spirit versus
letter of the law. I think when it comes down
to this, Hey, he might have been smooth talking Micah
to the point of just very general terms, if we're
gonna make you higher paid than this guy, that guy,
the other guy and everything else, and you know Micah
(08:49):
nodding along, going okay, cool and that and that, in
Jerry's mind constituted of we've got a framework of a deal.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This is this is and again, you're right, it's it's
one of the it's a situation where did he break
rules in the NFL and the cowboy should lose a
draft pick? Did he not? It's right at the edge
of that. No, that's it right, So did the fact
that he is. So he's okay with throwing that out there.
He's the guy. He's the villain in the movie right
in the law thriller where they have that where the
(09:18):
you know, the protagonist and the and the and the
and the bad guy have that one moment in court
and the lawyer or the cop says, I know you
did it. I'm gonna take you down. And what you're
supposed to say, if you're the defense, say I'm innocent.
I didn't do anything. You are you are wrapped up
in your own head with this. Instead, the bad guy says,
prove it right, And that's oh, so you're telling me
(09:39):
you did it. Now you're telling me I can't prove it.
I gotta go out to prove its. Imagine this is
Jerry Jones is not saying, hey, you know, Mica and
I we had great conversations and I thought we were
gonna have a deal, and what happened here where the
agent was bad? Oh no, we had a deal. Oh Jerry, No,
we had a deal. I had a deal.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
That's just it, right, How much of it goes down
and dispussed ficity versus you know, we want you a
cowboy forever. You're really important to us. All the smooth talking,
slap on the back. You know, you're like a son
to me, not like that's Stephen, you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Know, just keep going on down. Not him. He's been
disappointing because you know, I clearly we don't have Michael
Parsons anymore, and we don't have the Manzel kid.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So you still talking.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I lose you. So I'm gonna blame it on Steven.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm going I got my kid rankings coming up, and
Steven's dropping down the rankings and my favorite kids and
so you know he's gonna drop down that.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
List, Like how would you like to slide to number one?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No, but but all of that to you know, the
the letter in spirit of the law, in terms of
what he thought constituted a deal. Right again, he's old enough,
and I think there are still some places and I
want to say it's it's a full on yesterdyear. But
normally there's some paperwork that follows up pretty quickly. Right
in this case, it would be an agency uh in
(10:55):
movie Leta's office.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
At least getting over a term sheet, if not something
with everything else spelled out all the other you know,
specific clauses, bonuses, et cetera, and all of that down
the line. But you'd at least have some official paperwork.
All right, let's take this to the next step. It's
like you go in to buy a car, you look
(11:17):
at a house, whatever, like yeah, you might say, oh,
all right, we'll take it. Well, all right, you're preapproved
for an amount.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Find great.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Guess what, They're gonna run your numbers again and again
and again. If the person really doesn't want to move,
they're gonna do it nine to twenty five times before
you actually get to go sign any paperwork. But just
because in princ of all, we'll take it like you do,
you have the back you to do it. I don't know
yet we're gonna find out. That's kind of where Jerry
Jones is. He wanted that most expensive beach property in
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Micah Parsons and then uh, well, it came to rite
to check it is.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I mean, it is really something for Jerry Jones. And
now here's the coupe degras right, here's here's my degras.
I love the the coup de gras. This is my
full favorite from Jerry Jones today talking about the Micah
Parts trade. Again, you get defensive tackle Kenny Clark, you
get two first round picks from Michaeh Parsons. And here's
Jerry Jones saying how good the Cowboys are after this trade?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
This gives us a better chance to be a better
team than we have been the last few several years
since Micah's been here. Not any negative on Micah, but
we're trying to get better. We're trying to stop the
run and stay in the hunt.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So how are they better when they traded a better
Now you got two first round picks. You never know
who they could wind up beings. If you wind up
with the worst record and you get arch Manning, things
will work out. But how are you better today when
you got a defensive tackle who, yes, does have Pro
Bowls on his resume, but his twenty nine is do
a decent amount of money coming off his worst year
in the NFL with one sack and one of the
(12:55):
lowest pass rush win rates in the NFL as well?
How are you better off of trading Micah Parsons getting
him now the two first round picks. But that's not
till April. That's not till April. Right. This is a
you are a way worse team today than you were
twenty four hours ago. And I don't know how you
can spin that going forward. And I don't know how
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you can spend that and say, yeah, what we did
today it makes us potentially, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, I think there's again it's a matter of time,
down and distance right where we're doing this on the
eve of a new football season. It's it's the messaging
doesn't work in a grand scale. I agree with him
until the whole stop the run thing, like if he'd
stopped before that sentence. From a football perspective, the chance
is there to be a better team? Why because it'll
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be well rounded. We've talked a lot about being top heavy,
something Dallas has done for a very long time. So
when we're trying to round out a full roster, you
would then end up going to the bargain basement for
reclamation projects. Guys who've burned out somewhere else, they got
in trouble, they got hurt, or they just weren't good
in whatever system, and now you think you're going to
(14:05):
bring them in fix them, and the magical Lickxer is
just a star on the side of their helmet. Right.
So in terms of the actual football operations, this also
becomes the do you trust the people that are picking
said groceries? Right, because that's it. You get two draft picks,
but you gave up you get Kenny Clark again. I
feel like this poor guy is gonna get absolutely murdered
(14:27):
in this whole process. Yeah, because he has been a
good player in the past. Problem is he's very expensive
to be. You know, he's the equivalent of the jobb
or at the beginning of the dark matches of a
WWE event like go in there, you're Buryoh, get after it.
That's what he's got to take on in this role.
So you gotta you didn't help yourself from the dollars
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and cents at least for two years in that regard.
But in terms of flexibility long term, sure, you got
two draft picks that could be done, right, Trust that
the Cowboys are gonna get that right. History would say no.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
No, And that's the thing that people forget draft picks
is not hey, here's two star players. It's you gotta
get it right. The other thing is that are gonna.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Be pack your l.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, they're gonna be still a middling team. Again, Jed,
you shouldn't have done this press conference there, you made.
You made a bad he made he continues to make
a bad situation worse, and that he made a bad
situation worse in beginning of August, throughout August, and then
today by saying ridiculous things that no Cowboys fan is
gonna buy, No Cowboys fan bites any of that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, don't don't talk about stopping the run. Should have
just cut that sentence off. You good from the straight
football day. And again it's like I argued with Joe Shane,
wasn't what he was saying was wrong, but the reality
of of how you do it and and how it
plays out in the public theater.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You look the.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
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with Micah Parsons, now remember the Green Bay Packers. It's
time to say this because there's three teams I feel
really bad for because this trade screws of Dallas Cowboys
number one from being good. But this also screws the Lions,
the Bears, and the vikings all to different extents.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Now, to be fair, the Cowboys were never going to
be good, no.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But still it's your fan base and the Cowboys nation
has to deal with this the entire time. I mean,
think about you know, we talked about the fans a
little bit ago. I told you how mad you know everything?
What does this mean for the players? Think about what
this means for the Cowboys that have to sit here
and say, well, how did this happen? Right, We're trying
to get ready to play a season and Jerry Jones
(18:42):
pulled the rug out from under us by trading our
best defensive player and the best defensive player in the game.
Who is an ascendant player that you signed, that you keep,
that you don't trade. You don't trade twenty four year
old guys who are that good in that domb, that
can get the quarterback, that clearly have that kind of
talent level. What messages that send to the team, Oh yeah,
well we'll be good at some point? Like this is
right before the season. Man, this is not something that
(19:04):
happened in April, and there's time to get by it
because you'll sign players in free agency or you'll see
that some rookie draft picks. This is why we let
this guy go because we have his replacement. We liked
him in the draft. This is right before the season
and you're told, yeah, I'm pulling the plug on the
season because we're not a better team today than we
were a few hours ago. Like, how do what does
that do to like Dak and and and to Lamb
(19:27):
and and to all the all the players and and
and to Brian Schottenheimer who are sitting at you're trying
to send a message that we're gonna go win. We're out,
we're out to dominate and be great again. I mean,
what does that to everything you're playing for? It's like
you said, hey, we're punting on the season again. We're
punting on this now.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah. It's the difficulty of trying to parse between uh,
business and business all right, this is on the field
versus the players looking around going well there, there's there's
a new way of doing things around here.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Guys normally got paid.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
So if you're one of the those guys that was
looking at the next up and there's not an obvious
guy on the roster to that end, right, because both
Dak and CD have already got paid, which is why
they're getting dragged and all of this stuff. But you
don't have that obvious next man up. So I guess
that points to some degree is rendered moot. But it's
also a all right, it's we go into the year
(20:20):
we don't have Micah. I still have to play for
my job now. I if I'm on the defensive side
of the ball, I'm a little salty because it changes
how I'm gonna be viewed, right, because we're gonna be worse.
So some of those metrics that I might have been
judged by trying to get my next deal, be it
at Dallas somewhere else, might be a little a fewer dollars,
(20:42):
a lower dollar amount that comes flying through, and maybe
fewer suitors if there's enough bad tape that isn't covered
up by a guy parsons acumen on there. Offensively, you
knew you were already gonna be the NFC version of
the Bengals for the most part.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh, hey, you're gonna have outscore. Yeah, And then that
was fine, right, that was fine. And still, hey, teams
have to sit back and say, we got a game
plan around Michael Parsons around it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You're you're brought in the first first year head coach.
You're planning he's gonna be here. It's like he's been
telling himself lies, Like he's Al Franken sitting there staring
into the mirror. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough. This
is gonna work right, This is gonna work right.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And then no, this is like this is again. You
think about the message it sends for the cowboy, like
it's so hard that five days or six six days
before the regular season, spore you start your regular season.
It's oh yeah, we're punting on this year. Basically, wow man.
And to also basically to tell how we gave Dak
all that money and and Dax's you know, Dak's gonna
(21:47):
be a guy. We're very happy we gave him all
that cash. Like whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on, I understand
when there's times when you have to say, Dak Prescott's
got to give us more, but Jerry, don't give me
the old misdirection of hey, remember we gave Dak Prescott
all this money and we didn't. So that's basically what
he's saying is that, hey, remember last year, we gave
a guy more money than we've ever given anybody in
the history of the franchise, and we didn't win, right,
(22:08):
that's the implied that's the implied statement there as I remember,
So Dak is a guy that we gave money to.
We're glad to remember. So now Jerry Jones is saying, hey,
don't focus on the fact that we didn't pay Micah Parsons.
Remember we gave money to Dak. So if it doesn't
work out, he's the guy you blame. Rights. Don't blame
me for trading Micah Parsons, it's you blame Ak. The
fact that he had to bring Dak up in this
(22:29):
and and in such an insistent way was so I was.
I was like, wow, he really is grasping its straws
well in this situation.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Let's literally hit the rewind button in rewind to use
my best Ahmad Rashot. The idea you got you gotta
go look it up is the idea that when Dak
was on the board to get signed, how many debates
did we have? You and I, but also the larger
NFL analysis business about whether you should pay Dak right,
(23:02):
whether you should pay the piper based on what he
had been and the levels that you had reached with
him and everything else. So to now say, well, I mean,
we did what you wanted. We gave you Dak, and
look what it's gotten us that you can't have both ways. Like,
Dak was a guy that there were a lot of questions,
but because he was a lower round pick that Jerry
(23:24):
hit on, he made sure to let you know when
it was time. Now he dragged it out cost himself
money in that regard. That's why all along with this,
no matter how personal they got, you figured there was
a check big enough. H Now look now here again
if you think I'm lying, because I'm not, because remember
I told you Dak was a Dak.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I told you Da Dak was that Doc got the
wrong guy in my head. Now told you Michael was
gonna get traded a month ago. Here's Jerry Jones today,
just suddenly bringing up Dak Scott out of the blue
to make sure people understand he's the guy you got.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
To help, the fast paid player in the NFL, a quarterback,
and we made that commitment last year and we're proud
and had everything to do with his decision.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Everything it is.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Give us every opportunity with Dak, Prescott and Lamb and
the base that we've got to win now, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So okay, so wait, so you're winning now by trading
away the best defensive player but not giving Micah Parsons money.
Has everything to do the fact that you gave Dak
Prescott all that money last year. It's like, I get,
I look, I understand. Dak is a good quarterback. He's
a top fifteen quarterback in the NFL. Some years he's
a he's a top ten quarterback when he is healthy.
(24:37):
He's got weapons around him. Deak's a Dak's a really
good quarterback. Uh. But Jerry Jones is basically now like
he's he's gone, he's gone off the deep end with
just this had everything to do with the fact that
we gave Dak all that money last year and now
we can win with Dek. Oh wait, so you didn't
need Michael Parsons really didn't need him. Didn't need Michael
Parsons really really didn't You didn't need the best friends player,
(24:57):
didn't need him.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But this again goes back to the all right, things
you could have told me yesterday or recognized yesterday, or
before the draft or before any of this became a thing.
Because we scroll it back of again, decide how much
better on a wins loss base basis, Micah Parts makes
your team and then and then stuffed unrabble. Right, the
(25:20):
separating player from team Michael Parts could be really good,
but what does that mean for what you're building around him?
And I and I don't mean this in a in
a place where you're competent. Cowboys have shown that they
can't figure out the rest of that eleven. No disrespected
Digs when he's healthy, but they haven't gotten that side
of the ball right for a long time. Well, Doomsday
(25:43):
defense was really good, Yeah, you know, I mean, I
mean five Randy White and Harvey Martin, they were terrific. Yeah,
but look like Cowboys, we're going back with Charlie's Angels
was still there.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Come on, That's why I'm saying my name is Charlie.
That's why it's Look, the Cowboys got screwed the most today,
but the other three teams that got screwed just about
as much, the Bears, Vikings, and the Lions. Because the
Lions this was a Super Bowl. It is a Super
Bowler bust year. They're thinking of winning this division. Yes,
(26:14):
the Packers are a good team, and then making the playoff. Sure,
one hundred percent, right, I'm in on that Jordan Love
is healthy again. That you know that you keep drafting
wide receivers, eventually it's gonna work out, right. They got weapons,
they have a running back they can trust. So yeah,
I'm in on them being a good team. But the
Lions were gonna run this division, and the Bears were hoping, hey,
we need some big positive bits of growth from Caleb Williams.
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You gotta win a few games here and maybe we
stay around five hundred. The Vikings are saying, we got
to keep it going. From last year. There's pressure for
us to prove that we didn't make a huge mistake
by trading away, by letting Sam Darnold go and going
all in on JJ McCarthy. All of that has gotten
markedly more difficult with Parsons showing up in Green Bay
where he's a plug and play guy, and the Packers
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are saying, yeah, now, now look at us, See that
the odds for them to win division just went What
are they plus one twenty five now to win the division?
Like this is now a Lions team that says, hey,
suddenly playing on the road in the playoffs becomes a
big thing. And if you're the Lions, you don't want
to play on the rub when you have a high
octane offense. You don't want to play on the road
(27:18):
in the plass. You don't want to play in Lambeau
in the plasts. You don't want to play some ways
where it's really cold or swirling wins. You want to
play at home.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I realize they lost in them last year, but still
the Lions now suddenly saying, hey, this division, it's going
to be it's gonna be an absolute dog fight for
us just to get out of here. And the Vikings said,
it's going to be a dog fight for us to
make the playoffs and prove that we're still on the
same with the same path. With injured receivers and Adam
Thielen his back, this made it more difficult, and the
Bears all of a sudden their path to Hey, here's
(27:46):
the first year with Ben Johnson, we have weapons, we
drafted Colston Lovelin, we are feeling great. All of these
teams are now their success just got downgraded because not
that suddenly they were going to beat the Packers in
every game, right, but it was, hey, this is another
team in our division that went from being hey, they're
pretty good. And this is how it works, right, there's
(28:07):
a couple of good teams in every division. Maybe it's
our your now it's whoa. They just became an elite team.
And now there's two elite teams in the division, and
the other elite team is now pissed that this team
became elite. And now the two teams that want to
become a leader man, and now they're standing in their way.
They got The Lions got screwed the most because they
have the most they could go the furthest of any
team this year. And then probably it's the Vikings because
(28:28):
then the mistake of JJ McCarthy would come back in,
you know, tenfold, and then the Bears. So at least
the Bears got screwed the least in this, but they
still get screwed more than you know, the other twenty
six teams.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, they had a lot of a lot of questions
still coming in. We'll do plenty of analysis watching and
we'll watch Catlin Williams and JJ McCarthy get after a
week one. Just roll the ball out and just let
them fight against each other. And there you go to
Brian Flores against Ben Johnson. That'll be fun anyway. Packers
currently the favorite plus one seventy five Lions sitting right
(29:01):
behind plus two hundred Vikings plus three twenty five Bears
all the way down at plus five fifty plus six hundred. Yeah,
I mean it does change the map of it earlier today,
looking at win totals before the trade goes down, you're
looking at the Lions. We're at ten and a half
wins for the year, the Packers at nine and a half,
Both Bears and Vikings at eight and a half, and
(29:23):
I think there's been a lot of push for both
of those even before this move today for a little
bit of downward pressure in both of those respects. But yeah,
for Green Bay, it's really just one of those. As
we talked about the move potentially coming into focus, you know,
Mark Murphy's no longer the guy in charge under Mark Murphy,
(29:43):
does this deal goes down, does he pay them all legitimately? Right?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
The change it.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Is to give up like that, it's a lot for them,
his force retirement, but not just that one hundred and
eighty eight million dollar contract. Yeah, like that is so Unpackers.
Like so the last couple of days we've been talking
about that, rumors starting to bubble a little, and it
was out there in the outposts of the interwebs of
the thing with the guy in the place, no blue
check marks. But I was like, okay, swirling a little bit.
(30:10):
And we've had stories that have been broken by don
you know, big shots on television networks.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
But all of a.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Sudden they started going and the war I started thinking about.
It's like, well, you got to change at the top.
So how much of that is hey, you know what
we're moving in? Like like Jerry is it? So they
pushed away from Rogers.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
They pushed away from Rogers at the end when when
Gurdacus was making the moves, and so yeah, it's it's
kind of a new day and in Green Bay, but
a little bit of a different way to do business.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Those Terry Young team and you bring in Micro Parson.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Cowboys got screwed, then the Lions, then the Vikings, then
the Bears. At least you're again, at least you're at
the bottom of tea. Got screwed.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
No, until he's coming off the edge unchecked.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Like I'm sitting here, going man, they didn't trade him
to the AFC How happy am I about that?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I'm not screwing all of a sudden he ran up
in Buffalo on those icy units, or he became the
perfect guy from Mike Vrabel to unleash on you that
could have gotten ugly in a hurry time.
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It's Monty Belos, six days away your mathane mathin.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, you're gonna get him on the thirty first.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The next day you're going to get them. You're gonna
get I don't care. Listen, I don't care when you
get them. The next time I'm going to see you
is Wednesday, and that's when I need the bibble. If
I make it to Dodger Stadium by then, What do
you mean if you work for the Dodgers, I do
put something.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
My schedule changes week to week.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
It doesn't change. When you talking to your schedule changes changes.
You sound like Micah Parsons agent. You want to change
it in terms of.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Negotiation, it does change.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Is there a home stand? Is there not a home stand?
All of those things matter.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know, there's a thing called the schedule you look
at to so you know it comes out weigh in advanced.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
If they're played here versus they're playing on the road,
it's different.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
There's no flexible scheduling in Major League Baseball in August.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
And no flexibility for Jerry Jones right when it comes
to this Michael Parsons situation as he goes to the Packers,
the Cowboys are gonna get two first round draft picks
and three time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark. Of course,
Parsons is now the highest non paid or the highest
paid non quarterback in NFL history, a four year, one
hundred and eighty eight million dollar extension one hundred and
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thirty six million in total guarantees. Other NFL news, Buccaneers
general manager Jason light said today that he expects wide
receiver Chris Godwin to miss at least the first month
of the season recovering from that ankle injury. We'll check
in on the US Open fourteen seed Tommy Paul in
his second round match right now. He won his first
two sets. He's in his third set right now. He's
(32:53):
tied at five games a piece, but already one seed.
Yanick Center won his second round match. He's headed to
the third round. On the women's side, two seed Egos
Fiatik and three seed Cocoa Golf, they're advancing to the
third round. When it comes to baseball, the last three
games of the day have wrapped up. The Phillies crushed
the Braves nineteen to four, Kyle Schwarber four home runs,
a career high forty nine home runs on the season,
(33:14):
also a career high one hundred and nineteen rbi on
the season. The Marlins outscored the Mets seven four, and
the Yankees beat the White Sox ten to four.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
In the WNBA.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Angel Resa's nine points and seventeen rebounds in the Sky
are losing to the Mercury sixty seven to sixty three
with about six minutes to go in the game.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Back to you guys, Hey, you very bunch. Mont. Did
you do the Angel rees over under for rebounds tonight?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I did not.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
If anyone did, I hope they did over because she's
got seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I thought you you can go the over for rebound.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Yeah, no, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
I messed up, messed up trying to get that bubble ahead.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I know what would be the over under for that
is too just so coming up next, we have more
on the big Micah Parsons trade. The trade that this
trade is being compared to. It's kind of a shocker
because it really doesn't make sense. But it's next, Okay.
I can say a lot about this show. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Mica Parsons is a Green Bay Packer. Jerry got some
draft picks, the defensive tackle. The team is way worse
than it was This morning.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my bes
friend Mike Harmon. He's crazy like a fox, crazy like
a fox. So the Micah Parsons trade goes down today
and it's Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers for
two first round picks and defensive tackle. Kenny Clark's twenty
(34:55):
nine Pro Bowls in his pasty, but coming off his
worst year in the NFL getting paid a decent amount
of money for the next couple of years.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
He signed a three year, sixty four million dollars deal.
He still has two years left un said deal.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah it's gonna be thirty yeah. Okay. So here's this
big deal that is done right before the regular season
and already today, like right away when this happened, it
was and this is the only way Cowboys fans could
try to spin this forward, it was maybe it's our
new herschel Walker deal, right, like one of the most
famous trades in sports history, when the Vikings, thinking they
(35:30):
were just a running back away from winning the Super
Bowl back in the late eighties, traded a plethora of
draft picks to the cow that would you say it
was a plethora, a plethora of draft picks to the
Dallas Cowboys in exchange for herschel Walker. All these draft
picks the Cowboys used to draft basically every lynchpin of
the nineties dynasty that was the Cowboys, right, the herschel
(35:52):
Walker trade remade the Dallas Cowboys again before Jerry Jones
bought the team. But that's the only thing that Cowboys
fans are really holding on to is that maybe this
is our herschel Walker trade. Okay, you got two picks,
not seventeen, right, So there's that. And secondly, people, the
thing that people forget about draft picks is that a
(36:14):
draft pick is not great in and of itself. It's
like having the key to a room that's got money
in it, right, Like I got the key, where's the room? Oh?
Well that I gotta figure out. You have the draft picks,
but you gotta get it right. And the Cowboys have
not shown that they get things right nearly enough to
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build a team to compete. They're a top every team
every year. They have to take chances in the draft
to get players that nobody wants because well, what else
are we gonna do? They have not drafted well. They
keep a top heavy team every year. They're just good
enough to when when they're healthy, to maybe win ten games. Right.
That's that's the Cowboys ceiling and the Cowboys reality what
(36:56):
they see in Dallas. That's not RealD. We got to
get to the super Bowl. It's been years, so to
think that this is gonna be the heharsal, No, it's not.
Because you don't have enough picks and you gotta get
it right. And the Cowboys are shown they haven't gotten
it right. You don't want do you really want Jerry
Jones to have these draft picks that, oh, by the way,
are likely gonna come in the twenties. It's not like
(37:17):
we made a trade and we got two top ten picks.
You know we're gonna get two absolute dynasty makers and
franchise guys that we're gonna have for a decade. No,
you're gonna have two picks in the twenties, right, That's
what it's likely gonna be for the Packers, because they're
too good to be one of those teams suddenly falls
all the way off and loses all the way. They're
too solid all the way around. They're not losing a
(37:39):
quarterback away from being terrible. They're not losing a wide
receiver away from being terrible. These are gonna be two
picks in the twenties that they have to get right,
and the Cowboys are shown we don't know that we
can do it. So would you say it's a herschel
Walker trade? I would say yeah, if I had more
confidence that you do what you were doing when it
came to filling these holes. But I've seen you build
(37:59):
a roster for thirty years and it's not been good enough.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Well, if you're able to spin those picks, then they
multiply or something. If that's somehow the Wayne, you can
pull this like Rabbits. Like Rabbits I said, but we
made the two picks and suddenly it's four picks. But
you know you have to you have a pick, and
then you you take your pick, and then you can
parlay that and move up and whatever to get yourself
(38:22):
something bigger.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
But all because you're gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Remember, like, let's just say you've got a twenty third
pick because the Packers, Yeah, Cowboys one is gonna be
a top ten. Yeah, so the shoot together might be useful, Yeah,
to get you up into the territory for whatever place.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Number is the number.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Six and the number twenty eight enough to get us
up to number two.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That's kind of kind of where we're at and looking
at this process, all right. So from that angle perspective,
you know you start off by talking about being top heavy.
Well that's the one part of this where Jerry, even
if he doesn't realize it, actually makes sense. Even though
he pulled in a guy that's making twenty twenty million
dollars a year, yeah, as a middling defense down and
(39:03):
I feel bad.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
He's a three time pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Guys had a great career, yep, And unfortunately he's in
the jag territory with a heavy contract. This is the
expiring contract you're gonna take. Problem is for Jeriot doesn't expire.
He's got two years. No, it's not left on it.
But all of that, then to say, is you're getting
to where you're gonna be able to be more functional
and spread that money around. So yes, in theory, the
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problem is they're still in the charge and still the
Jones is making those picks. Yeah, it's great to have those,
but you gotta be able to do something with.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Them, right.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
If it's the packers front off, it's great. Look, it's
great to Lynch. Great, it's great that I have chocolate
chips and chocolate chip dough.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
If I don't know how to make the cookies, that
doesn't help me at it. I mean, I just have
to eat it all raw. But I mean, do you
see mean it would be better if I did that
coming up next. If you listen to us, you would
have known this trade was gonna happen a month ago.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
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