August 20, 2025 • 5 mins
The crew dives deep into the Micah Parsons contract saga, where a handshake agreement with Jerry Jones reportedly got vetoed by Micah’s agent, leaving the Cowboys in a state of awkward silence. Beat reporters are capturing photos of Micah looking “dejected,” while Trayvon Diggs lurks nearby, equally unhappy. The tension is palpable, and the speculation is wild.Troy Aikman weighs in with a calm take: “The longer it goes, the more money he’s going to make.” But the real wildcard? Jerry Jones himself—older, more stubborn, and more defiant than ever. The team discusses how Jerry’s portrayal in the Netflix docuseries America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys paints him as a spaghetti western antihero, complete with a chip on his shoulder and a refusal to back down.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now it is cool around the sports KTD fu quins
as all the sports.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes, Cowboys back at the Stars. Training camp's kind of over,
but it's still training camp, but it's at the Star
and very wild to see people, you know, tweeting out
Beat reporters tweeting out pictures of Micah sitting on a
chair Trayvon Diggs is kind of their mine and about
ten to fifteen feet away as Steven Jones taking pictures
(00:32):
with sponsors or friends or fans or whatever. It's like, man,
they are within the same vicinity of each other, but
they just aren't talking. And Micah does and all the
I mean, who knows, like two hours of walking around practice.
I'm sure he smiled a couple of times. Boy, And
the pictures that are framed on social media from the
Beat reporters, it's like he looks dejected, dude. It's got
(00:54):
to be there.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's got to be putting so much pressure on that
agent too, because Jerry and Micah agree do a deal,
shake on it, and like, yeah, we feel good about this,
all right, let's go, and then Micah takes it to
his agent. His agent, it was like no, hell no,
why do you pay me?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, let me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
You need to deserve more than that comes back to Jerry,
and Jerry's piss like, oh my god, you violated our
handshake agreement.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
All right, no deal.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, And so it's just stagnant with no communication happening,
like what terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I wonder how much Mike actually listens to his good
friend Trevon Diggs Strayland Diggs is not like happy at all.
It seems like, uh, and they find him and he
didn't like that, and he was offended by that. But
they also went out of their way to run him
over in the opening press conference. I don't know that
I've seen them do anything like that inert Steelers steal
(01:47):
out of nowhere, just getting ran over. Dak got it,
you know, like everyone got it a little bit, but
I just thought it was like a little bit somewhere.
It's easy if you're in that bad mood, things aren't
going well, and then your buddy's also with you there,
he's not feeding you good information. I mean, they may
be like, once we can get out of here, let's
go get out of here and go somewhere else. If
we can't, probably don't work that way. Michael probably gets signed.
(02:09):
So we know. Here's what Troy Aigman thinks. Though Troy
and Joe had to do a preseason game the other night. No, man, man,
you hate to see that. Somehow Tom Brady would his
way out of having to do some preseason games. Troil
and Joy had to do. Troy and Joe had to
do one, not Troe and Joy. That's different couple. And
here's your take from Troy Aikins.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You try to win or be great without Michael Parson,
well you can't be. That's his leverage, his leverages. I
can't win without him. So I do think the Cowboys
are going to be better than what a lot of
people project. I saw something where the over under seven
and a half wins on the Cowboys. I think they're
going to be much better than that. I think they
got a chance without Michael Parsons. I just don't think
they're gonna be able to slow anybody down. I mean,
(02:50):
he's a total game wrecker, and he's proven that, and
he's certainly worth every penny that he's ultimately going to
get paid. The longer it goes, the more money he's
gonna make. So I wouldn't stress too much if I
was but that that essentially is the only leverage. Now,
what are the cowboys going to do? You think I
know the answer to that. I don't think anybody knows
what Jerry's ever going to do?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What a way to end its spectacular?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I would I would be very, very very surprised if
they don't have a deal done by week one. I
really think it's going to be like every one of
these who is the last guy that they didn't get
a deal done with? I can't even I can't even
remember it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That was a star?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, I can't even who was it?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Get there? I can't even get there. But they've paid
literally everyone.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But the biggest wild card is that Jerry is older yes,
and more stubborn yes than he's ever been at any
point in his career as a businessman. So does he
draw a line in the sand that they can't even
pull him back from? Even if Steven's like, Dude, we
need to go ahead and do this deal, Jerry's like, no,
the principle of the handshake, you can't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
We can't do it until all eight episodes have been
seen of the Netflip series. So I was wondering though,
you know what you're talking about with him being more defiant, Ben,
I kind of got this since you know, in the
five o'clock hour and cussing the cowboys. We're gonna talk
about this Netflix series and I've only seen have they
released all the episodes, like you can play to them? Okay,
(04:14):
so we've all only seen the first two. But I
definitely think, you know, Jerry, it's a Jerry. Hey, let's
celebrate Jerry. And they've totally got him presented as a
spaghetti western cowboy. They're even playing the music at the
beginning from the spaghetti westerns. But I definitely think that
he is doing the They called me a bumpkin. They
(04:34):
don't know f oh yeah, hell, you know he's he's
being defiant, and it to me, it's like he's been
at at times, but never to the degree that we're
seeing in the last couple of years. It is definitely intensified.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The chimps on the shoulder, and it's that whole thing
of I gave up everything whatever is everyone talks about
me being rich. I literally was in debt when I
bought the team. I gambled everything I had and y'all
forget I think that's like really sticks with him. Y'all
forget that I was broke. I made my family, and
it's also like, dude, you're the one who made those
(05:08):
irresponsible decisions, right, and it's worked out great for you. Yeah,
And if you're listening with us, or you follow the
podcast or whatever, Tomorrow, which will be Thursday show, we
will do episode three and Friday we'll do episode four
and we'll just kind of do it that way so
we can all watch it together. How about that?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, love it, Let's keep it going. All right, There
you have it. There's around the Sports coming up in
just a few minutes. It's the weekly weekday update. A
local musician kills a guy. We got the Today game,
and then we will get into America's team, The Gambler
and his Cowboys, the Netflix docu series in the five
o'clock hour. That's all coming your way on The Beninskin
Show next
Now it is cool around the sports KTD fu quins
as all the sports.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes, Cowboys back at the Stars. Training camp's kind of over,
but it's still training camp, but it's at the Star
and very wild to see people, you know, tweeting out
Beat reporters tweeting out pictures of Micah sitting on a
chair Trayvon Diggs is kind of their mine and about
ten to fifteen feet away as Steven Jones taking pictures
(00:32):
with sponsors or friends or fans or whatever. It's like, man,
they are within the same vicinity of each other, but
they just aren't talking. And Micah does and all the
I mean, who knows, like two hours of walking around practice.
I'm sure he smiled a couple of times. Boy, And
the pictures that are framed on social media from the
Beat reporters, it's like he looks dejected, dude. It's got
(00:54):
to be there.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's got to be putting so much pressure on that
agent too, because Jerry and Micah agree do a deal,
shake on it, and like, yeah, we feel good about this,
all right, let's go, and then Micah takes it to
his agent. His agent, it was like no, hell no,
why do you pay me?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, let me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
You need to deserve more than that comes back to Jerry,
and Jerry's piss like, oh my god, you violated our
handshake agreement.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
All right, no deal.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, And so it's just stagnant with no communication happening,
like what terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I wonder how much Mike actually listens to his good
friend Trevon Diggs Strayland Diggs is not like happy at all.
It seems like, uh, and they find him and he
didn't like that, and he was offended by that. But
they also went out of their way to run him
over in the opening press conference. I don't know that
I've seen them do anything like that inert Steelers steal
(01:47):
out of nowhere, just getting ran over. Dak got it,
you know, like everyone got it a little bit, but
I just thought it was like a little bit somewhere.
It's easy if you're in that bad mood, things aren't
going well, and then your buddy's also with you there,
he's not feeding you good information. I mean, they may
be like, once we can get out of here, let's
go get out of here and go somewhere else. If
we can't, probably don't work that way. Michael probably gets signed.
(02:09):
So we know. Here's what Troy Aigman thinks. Though Troy
and Joe had to do a preseason game the other night. No, man, man,
you hate to see that. Somehow Tom Brady would his
way out of having to do some preseason games. Troil
and Joy had to do. Troy and Joe had to
do one, not Troe and Joy. That's different couple. And
here's your take from Troy Aikins.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You try to win or be great without Michael Parson,
well you can't be. That's his leverage, his leverages. I
can't win without him. So I do think the Cowboys
are going to be better than what a lot of
people project. I saw something where the over under seven
and a half wins on the Cowboys. I think they're
going to be much better than that. I think they
got a chance without Michael Parsons. I just don't think
they're gonna be able to slow anybody down. I mean,
(02:50):
he's a total game wrecker, and he's proven that, and
he's certainly worth every penny that he's ultimately going to
get paid. The longer it goes, the more money he's
gonna make. So I wouldn't stress too much if I
was but that that essentially is the only leverage. Now,
what are the cowboys going to do? You think I
know the answer to that. I don't think anybody knows
what Jerry's ever going to do?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What a way to end its spectacular?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I would I would be very, very very surprised if
they don't have a deal done by week one. I
really think it's going to be like every one of
these who is the last guy that they didn't get
a deal done with? I can't even I can't even
remember it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That was a star?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, I can't even who was it?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Get there? I can't even get there. But they've paid
literally everyone.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But the biggest wild card is that Jerry is older yes,
and more stubborn yes than he's ever been at any
point in his career as a businessman. So does he
draw a line in the sand that they can't even
pull him back from? Even if Steven's like, Dude, we
need to go ahead and do this deal, Jerry's like, no,
the principle of the handshake, you can't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
We can't do it until all eight episodes have been
seen of the Netflip series. So I was wondering though,
you know what you're talking about with him being more defiant, Ben,
I kind of got this since you know, in the
five o'clock hour and cussing the cowboys. We're gonna talk
about this Netflix series and I've only seen have they
released all the episodes, like you can play to them? Okay,
(04:14):
so we've all only seen the first two. But I
definitely think, you know, Jerry, it's a Jerry. Hey, let's
celebrate Jerry. And they've totally got him presented as a
spaghetti western cowboy. They're even playing the music at the
beginning from the spaghetti westerns. But I definitely think that
he is doing the They called me a bumpkin. They
(04:34):
don't know f oh yeah, hell, you know he's he's
being defiant, and it to me, it's like he's been
at at times, but never to the degree that we're
seeing in the last couple of years. It is definitely intensified.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The chimps on the shoulder, and it's that whole thing
of I gave up everything whatever is everyone talks about
me being rich. I literally was in debt when I
bought the team. I gambled everything I had and y'all
forget I think that's like really sticks with him. Y'all
forget that I was broke. I made my family, and
it's also like, dude, you're the one who made those
(05:08):
irresponsible decisions, right, and it's worked out great for you. Yeah,
And if you're listening with us, or you follow the
podcast or whatever, Tomorrow, which will be Thursday show, we
will do episode three and Friday we'll do episode four
and we'll just kind of do it that way so
we can all watch it together. How about that?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, love it, Let's keep it going. All right, There
you have it. There's around the Sports coming up in
just a few minutes. It's the weekly weekday update. A
local musician kills a guy. We got the Today game,
and then we will get into America's team, The Gambler
and his Cowboys, the Netflix docu series in the five
o'clock hour. That's all coming your way on The Beninskin
Show next
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