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Coming back to this. How much of Parsons antics are on him and how much is it a direct result of the culture in Dallas? That’s not easy to answer. It’s true that sometimes it’s best to part with a superstar and build a ****ing team. But from where I’m sitting Dallas isn’t ready to build anything until they rethink the whole culture down there.
Loosens him up and Van Ness has been showing improvement. Should elevate them, lets Edgerrin Cooper not have to rush the qb and free up the corners and Mckinney on the back end.
Another salty Boys fan apparently
That’s all you took from my post?
Just re-read it. Don’t see anything else relevant to the discussion other than you said he’s bad against the run, which I agree with.
I have 3 Cowboys on my main dynasty team, Dak, Ferg, and Blue. This helps all 3 but this may really help place Blue on the fast track for catch up playing time and separate him from the other guys.
Imagine if Dallas' season falls apart, they get the No. 1 pick, and the net result of two of the dumbest sports trades in history is that the teams end up with Cooper Flagg and Arch Manning
As a Vikings fan.. I concur
Dallas should have had a plan for one of their best assets. That should not have included trying to negotiate with him without his agent then belittling him to the press.
How much more do you think they could have received?
Also, with all of the other hold-ins this summer, you could understand the team's rationale even if you didn't agree with it. Hendrickson is a little old to be giving a massive extension. Ditto McLaurin. Cook is an RB. But there is literally no rationale for not paying a 26-year-old generational edge rusher. Along with a QB, this is what you're always trying to get out of the draft. The Cowboys had one and they gave it away for a Mystery Box.
I’ve not defended Dallas GM, nor have I said I was a huge fan of this trade. And you didn’t answer my question
Not with Jerry Jones calling the shots.
Unless I missed it noone has done that
He's not really forthcoming on the players they are losing, and the cap restrictions. Yeah, they gave up two #1s. That's a lot? I guess, but Parsons is worth two late 1s in any draft. Falcons traded two #1 picks for Pearce. Khalil Mack was two 1s, a 3rd, and a 6th.
So the Pack traded a guy who was a potential cap casualty next year. Parsons cap number next year might only be a few mill more than Clark's.
No? I’d say the only mistake is not doing it before this years’ draft. But, he was still trying to sign the guy for a reasonable number.
We must not be talking about the same Kenny Clark. He was abysmal against the run last year
Plus the overpay today is underpaid tomorrow. Dallas could have signed Parsons for 30-35 per if they were proactive and didn't let the situation fester for headlines or Jerry's personal satisfaction. In two years when the schedule is increased to 18 games and three more different streaming deals are struck the cream of the crop players will make those paid today seem underpaid if they are still producing. And then the cycle begins anew
I thought I saw that, but maybe you're right. Maybe I was thinking of @Grahamburn saying this opens a window for Dallas to be better long-term, which kinda sounds like he's arguing it was a strategic move, but I don't want to be putting words in his mouth.
I’m not saying it was some strategic ploy. I think Jerry wanted to sign the guy and failed.
Seems to me that he has no plan, he dithers and backs himself into corners of his own making, and his team would be better off with someone else making decisions besides him.
Saying that he salvaged a bad situation is certainly a reasonable thing to argue. I'm not sure I agree with it, but I don't know what was going on behind the scenes, and we've certainly seen plenty of the trades you're talking about in recent years (Russ, Jamaal Adams) that ended up being way more disastrous than people thought at the time. Even the Khalil Mack trade, which initially looked like a huge steal for the Bears, ended up being mostly a wash (in part because the Raiders totally fumbled the picks). Also, I jokingly compared it to the Luka trade earlier, but I will certainly concede that two first-rounders > Anthony Davis.
As long as Jones is alive, Dallas will never win another super bowl. UNLESS, of course, he brings an actual football mind in to be their GM. His ways are outdated and terrible for the future of that franchise.
I disagree that scrambling to salvage a bad situation is strategic. Strategic would have been what the Vikings did in trading Diggs and then immediately drafting Jefferson as his replacement (one could argue that the Titans were being similarly strategic wtih the AJ Brown trade and just honked the draft pick).
The $$ you pay a 1st rder is a lil less than 50 mil a yr
It's an incredibly risky move for the long term. It's going to be very hard to replace Parsons and come out ahead somehow with 2 late 1st round picks. Just replacing Parsons with one of those picks is going to be extremely difficult. Getting both picks to hit with high-end starters is almost impossible. I can see a world where Clark is the only starter DAL winds up getting from this deal.
Wish the Lions had the balls to do this.
For FF? Absolutely. RL? Maaaaaybe?
I live in Detroit and I'm not so sure. Parsons will feast on Decker. Our interior line isn't as good.
From everything I’ve read (and I’ve been following the Hutch news closely as I traded for him this offseason) he’s looking every bit as good as he did before the injury. And he looked like a lock for DPOY before the injury.
So is the production. Gary and Van Ness were firsts and don’t match Parsons’ output. Its a huge contract no doubt and my biggest concern with this trade.
at Jerry and Steven Jones for their GM job.
