The Dallas Cowboys are dominating the NFL information cycle because the Micah Parsons saga continues firstly of preseason.
Eyebrows have been raised when it was realized that Parsons wasn’t noticed on the apply discipline on Thursday for the primary time because the star pass-rusher within the closing yr of his rookie deal requested a trade on Aug. 1.
Nonetheless, ESPN’s Todd Archer then revealed that Parsons was coping with again tightness and receiving therapy in the course of the staff’s exercise.
Following the session, Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott addressed whether or not or not he has thought of not having Parsons as a teammate in the course of the upcoming season.
“No, not essentially,” Prescott responded, as shared by Jon Machota of The Athletic. “I believe if I wouldn’t have been in his sneakers, and watched different guys be in his sneakers and get rewarded, possibly. However I’ve bought religion within the Joneses and the staff as I do in Micah and his staff. Eleven is a Cowboy.”
As of Friday morning, there remained no indication that Cowboys proprietor and basic supervisor Jerry Jones would commerce Parsons earlier than Dallas opens the upcoming marketing campaign with a matchup on the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday, Sept. 4. In the meantime, Prescott was referencing how he,
wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and others beforehand acquired extensions from the Cowboys late into the summer season months.
Final yr, phrase that Prescott had agreed to a deal went public simply hours earlier than the Cowboys’ Week 1 recreation.
That mentioned, it appears that “no less than 5 or 6 groups” are ready to pounce if Parsons makes it recognized he’d relatively forfeit cash by sitting regular-season contests out than play on his present contract. However, Prescott appears assured the Parsons-Jones relationship is not damaged past restore.
“On the finish of the day, it’s enterprise,” Prescott added throughout his feedback. “We will’t make one thing enterprise private. I believe if you do this, that’s the place the division comes. … As soon as that enterprise deal occurs, you’ll be able to transfer ahead.”
The Cowboys shut the preseason with a matchup in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons on Aug. 22. Historical past reveals Parsons might not put pen to paper on a profitable extension that doubtless will make him the brand new highest-paid non-quarterback within the NFL till after that recreation wraps up.
