The Micah Parsons situation is going to loom over the Dallas Cowboys until the All-Pro either puts pen to paper or leaves town. That bore out both before and during their final preseason game on Friday.
Ahead of the matchup against the Atlanta Falcons on Friday, Parsons walked by an AT&T Stadium tour group on his way to the locker room. One of the tourists, a Falcons fan, yelled, “Come to the Falcons” at him.
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Parsons responded with a “call me” gesture as he passed by while eating nachos.
Parsons’ enthusiasm for a future with the Cowboys didn’t increase as the game began. During the third quarter, reporters noticed he had laid down on a trainer’s table on the sideline. This is the state of the Cowboys in 2025.
Micah Parsons watched a preseason game the way a lot of us do at home. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
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Parsons defended his conduct after the game, quote-tweeting broadcaster Mike Leslie’s note that he was only on the table for “a relatively short portion of the evening” and accusing the media of blowing the incident out of proportion.
He said he would never disrespect his teammates who were on the field.
Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said after the game he’s still confident Parsons will be playing for
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Parsons announced his request for a trade Aug. 1 and has been held out of practice since the start of training camp, ostensibly with a back injury. Talks between his camp and the Cowboys have soured over the past several months, but might have reached a new low over the past 24 hours.
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While Parsons has been mostly quiet about the situation, team owner Jerry Jones has sounded off regularly about what he thinks his team’s best defensive player should do. On Friday, he pointed to Parsons’ agent David Mulugheta as the problem, alleging that one of the league’s most powerful agents had shot down a handshake agreement between team owner and player (who has a right to representation and to follow his agent’s advice).
Jones doubled down the next morning, complaining about the basic idea of someone negotiating on a player’s behalf. He has also shot down any possibility of trading Parsons and threatened to hit him with the franchise tag twice once his rookie contract runs out this year, keeping the All-Pro tied to Dallas for another three years.
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That attitude does not appear to be endearing him to Parsons, who responded by wiping any mention of the Cowboys from his social media channels and posts on TikTok and X. And now, Parsons is flirting with a trade invitation in the Cowboys’ own stadium.
At stake is a contract that should be the largest for a non-quarterback in NFL history. Jones has said he’s already offered him more guaranteed money than any defensive player, though that might have been in March when the high mark was Nick Bosa’s $88 million from the San Francisco 49ers. The current record is T.J. Watt’s $108 million, signed last month.
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With four Pro Bowl nods in his first four seasons and at still only 26 years old, it’s not surprising Parsons wants something big.
