Jerry Jones not swayed by Parsons' trade request

OXNARD, Calif. -- Micah Parsons' trade request connected Friday has not swayed Dallas Cowboys proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones and helium volition not see trading the prima walk rusher.

"I deliberation the satellite of Micah," Jones said aft Saturday's practice. "And that (request) is conscionable a portion of negotiation."

Jones spent 16 minutes answering questions astir Parsons' declaration situation, the statement the proprietor believes they made successful March, and sarcastically mentioned the backmost tightness that has kept the Pro Bowler disconnected the tract truthful acold done 9 grooming campy practices.

"That is 30 years of aged stuff, immoderate of these issues we're proceeding astir trading, wounded backs, each that benignant of stuff," Jones said.

But Jones would not accidental whether helium expected Parsons connected the tract for the Sept. 4 play opener against the Philadelphia Eagles.

"I don't privation to speech astir my expectations," Jones said. "Now that is speculating. But I tin talk to thing that's happened up until present and that has nary sensitivity to me."

Parsons made his commercialized petition publically with a social media post, citing, among different things, "repeated shots" from the organization.

"Unfortunately I nary longer privation to beryllium here," Parsons wrote. "I nary longer privation to beryllium held to adjacent doorway negotiations without my cause present. I nary longer privation shots taken astatine maine for getting injured portion laying it connected the enactment for the enactment our fans and my teammates. I nary longer privation narratives created and dispersed to the media astir me. I had purposely stayed quiescent successful hopes of getting thing done."

Parsons was connected the signifier tract Saturday, starting the workout little than 10 yards distant from enforcement vice president Stephen Jones. However, for the archetypal clip successful camp, helium was not successful his No. 11 signifier jersey and spent much clip with quarterbacks, moving backs and wide receivers than with the defence during drills.

As the squad went done immoderate 11 connected 11 work, Parsons sat connected the writer underneath the perch wherever Jones watches signifier betwixt the 2 fields. After practice, a large chant of "We privation Micah" broke retired from the fans adjacent the field.

Jones said helium has not spoken with Parsons since the petition was made.

Jones reiterated helium and Parsons reached an statement connected a woody successful March erstwhile they met successful the owner's office. In his societal media post, Parsons said the sojourn was expected to beryllium astir enactment and Jones turned it to the contract.

Jones said Parsons took that connection disconnected the table. Jones would not divulge circumstantial details of the agreement, but made a notation to "guaranteeing idiosyncratic astir $200 million" successful comments Saturday.

"What y'all don't cognize is what I offered him and it's a helluva batch much than you deliberation I did," Jones said. "That's what you don't cognize ... But my constituent is I reached. Make nary mistake astir it. I reached."

Since Jones and Parsons met backmost successful March, elite walk rushers Myles Garrett (four years, $160 million), Maxx Crosby (three years, $106.5 million) and T.J. Watt (three years, $123 million) person signed extensions.

Parsons is acceptable to marque $21.324 cardinal this play connected the fifth-year option. Without an hold this season, the Cowboys could usage the franchise tag connected Parsons from 2026-28, however, that past fig would beryllium astatine the outgo of the apical 5 highest-paid quarterbacks successful the NFL.

The Cowboys and Parsons' agent, David Mulugheta, person not had immoderate talks astir a deal. Jones mentioned that helium has done contracts with prima players implicit the years by "the treble handful."

"It's precise important that if you privation to alteration the declaration that we've got close now, which this would, that I hold to what we changed," Jones said. "That's wherefore it was truthful bully erstwhile we sat down unneurotic and spent batch of clip going backmost and distant adjusting and we had that workout unneurotic (in March)."

"What y'all don't cognize is what I offered him and it's a helluva batch much than you deliberation I did. That's what you don't cognize ... But my constituent is I reached. Make nary mistake astir it. I reached."

Jerry Jones connected his March gathering with Micah Parsons

What astir the agent?

"My acquisition has been the cause is not the 1 that solves the problems you person erstwhile you're executing what you said you would bash successful the contract," Jones said. "So I similar to woody straight with the subordinate erstwhile it's of this nature."

The Cowboys person a caller past of protracted negotiations erstwhile it comes to signing their prima players. Two years ago, aboriginal Hall of Fame defender Zack Martin missed the aboriginal information of grooming campy looking for a renegotiated deal. Last year, CeeDee Lamb signed a four-year, $136 cardinal declaration aft missing the full information of campy successful Oxnard. Dak Prescott agreed to a $60 million-a-year woody hours earlier past year's play opener.

Ultimately, however, each of those deals person gotten done.

"I'm truly gladsome you brought that up," Jones said. "It seems similar that we hide that it's been little than a twelvemonth and I paid the highest that's been paid successful the NFL to Dak and I paid a large terms for Lamb. Anybody that says I'm not funny successful financially rewarding my players hasn't been looking astatine the beverage leaves. So there's ever dialog and the dialog is to enactment the champion squad connected the field. And galore times it's not adjacent a question of 'deserving.' ... I bask Micah. But arsenic ever successful immoderate relationships there's antithetic moods astatine antithetic times of your relationship. That's what it is. Don't suffer immoderate slumber implicit it. That's the 1 happening I would accidental to our fans, 'Don't suffer immoderate slumber implicit it.'"