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Feb 10, 2022; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Micah Parsons appears on the red carpet prior to the NFL Honors awards presentation at YouTube Theater. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

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Feb 10, 2022; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Micah Parsons appears on the red carpet prior to the NFL Honors awards presentation at YouTube Theater. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Finally! The Dallas Cowboys‘ offseason is now complete. After all, an offseason only Jerry Jones can make sense of is the ‘normal’ in Jerry’s World. In his words, Micah Parsons signing a four-year contract, worth $188 million, with Green Bay, is fine. “This gives us a better chance to be a better team than we have been the last several years while Micah has been here,” JJ said. While he can talk the talk, Micah Packers aims at walking it now.
The highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history went public just moments after the trade. He told Rob Maaddi, “I just want to do whatever I can to help the Packers win a championship.” Those words carried weight. No Dallas drama, no Jerry Jones politics. Just Green Bay’s window to chase a Lombardi on his mind! For a guy who knows how to turn in highlights even during losing nights, Packers fans finally got a reason to believe this move is about more than money.
New #Packers All-Pro @MicahhParsons11 told me: “I just want to do whatever I can to help the Packers win a championship.”
Parsons is motivated. He’s already on a path to Canton and wants to earn some Super Bowl rings along the way.— Rob Maaddi (@RobMaaddi) August 29, 2025
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Go back to September 11, 2022. Dallas gets smacked 19-3 by Tom Brady and the Bucs, and there wasn’t much joy in Arlington. Except one thing: Micah Parsons wrecked Brady twice with statement sacks that lit up social media. Five tackles, two drive-killing third-down sacks, praise from LeSean McCoy, to sump his individual performance.. That was his second-year opener, and he hasn’t slowed since.
Four straight Pro Bowls, three All-Pro nods, and the Defensive Rookie of the Year tag later, Parsons has shown he’s wired different. But Canton isn’t just about stats. Rings make the walk memorable, too. Parsons sits in rare air with Reggie White, Derrick Thomas, and Dwight Freeney as the only players to stack 10+ sacks in each of their first four years. Those three already have bronze busts. Parsons? He’s missing the rings. And that’s why Green Bay rolled the dice. At 26, with his prime years about to hit, this feels like the move that could flip his legacy from “dominant pass-rusher” to “all-time great.”
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The Packers recognized generational talent when they saw it. “He changes the game,” explained a former NFL general manager who scouted Parsons at Penn State. And that should be music to Matt LaFleur & Co.’s ears. “Green Bay is saying, ‘We’re getting a guy here that is in his prime. This guy could be a Hall of Famer.’ When you can get the star, you get the star. That’s it.” The executive understood the trade’s magnitude perfectly. The ripple effects hit Dallas hardest. Cowboys fans watched Jerry Jones finally lose a contract standoff after decades of eventual agreements.
From Emmitt Smith in 1993 to Zack Martin in 2023, Jones always found ways to keep his stars. The breakup stung deep in Texas hearts. Cowboys players face a crushing reality now. Losing their best defensive player before September creates immediate problems. And now, the onus is on first-year HC Brian Schottenheimer to rebuild team morale while answering questions about management decisions he didn’t make.
Jerry Jones doubles down on Parsons gamble
Jerry Jones walked into that press conference knowing the heat was coming. Trading away Micah Parsons broke every Cowboys fan’s heart in Texas. But Jones didn’t flinch when reporters started firing questions about losing his defensive superstar. Instead, he flipped the script completely. The 82-year-old owner painted this blockbuster deal as Dallas’s salvation, not their downfall. The justification came fast and confident: “This was a move to get us successful in the playoffs,” Jones declared, per ESPN.
“This was a move to be better on defense, stopping the run. This was a move to, if we get behind, not be run on.” Jones doubled down hard on his reasoning. He called it “a deliberate move, a well-thought-out move to make this happen.” The owner believes Kenny Clark fixes their biggest defensive weakness — stopping opposing ground games that killed them in crucial moments.
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Jones dropped the ultimate challenge next: “In our judgment this gives us a better chance to be a better team than we have been the last several years,” he stated boldly. That’s heavyweight trash talk from an owner who just traded away his best defensive player. Jones clearly sees something most fans don’t understand yet. Clark brings legitimate credentials to Dallas. The 29-year-old defensive tackle has collected 35 sacks since 2016 and earned three Pro Bowl selections.
He won’t replace Parsons’ pass-rushing ability, but he anchors the run defense like few players can. Jones believes that foundation matters more than individual statistics. The real test arrives September 4th against Philadelphia. The reigning champion Eagles provide the perfect measuring stick for Jones’s bold gamble. Dallas faces their biggest rival with a completely retooled defense. This game was already set to garner a lot of attention, and now it will have even more buzz amid Dallas’ blockbuster deal.
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