The Dallas Cowboys are no longer America’s Team. There’s a chance they aren’t even Texas’s team. Three years ago, the Houston Texans had a very similar situation to the one the Cowboys just resolved. Quarterback Deshaun Watson had requested a trade. He had sat out an entire season, with pay. He had more than 20 civil lawsuits pending. Texans G.M. …
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Todd ArcherAug 31, 2025, 05:57 PM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott didn’t think Micah Parsons would be traded, but the move to the Green Bay Packers …
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Earlier this month, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said of Micah Parsons, “11 is a Cowboy.” Now? Not. “I can’t say I was completely surprised, but I definitely didn’t think he was going to get traded,” Prescott told reporters on Sunday regarding the Parsons trade, via Ali Jawad of ALLDLLS.com. “Just with the way our negotiations went down, and to some …
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“Yea, I was,” Prescott said when asked if he was surprised by the team’s decision to trade Parsons. “I can’t say I was completely surprised, but I definitely didn’t think he was going to get traded, I’ll say that. But just with that their negotiations went down, obviously to some extent… it seemed like it got personal on their ends, …
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In the immediate aftermath of the Micah Parsons trade, the Cowboys held a press conference aimed at declaring victory. The real winners — the Packers and Parsons — didn’t feel compelled to say a word about it on Thursday. Whether the Packers got the better of the deal remains to be seen. For now, it looks like the next in …
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When the Micah Parsons trade from Dallas to Green Bay was reported, we had a good number of details concerning the new contract Parsons would sign with the Packers. To reiterate, we listed it as a four-year, $188MM deal with $136MM in total guarantees ($120MM guaranteed at signing). Per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, $44MM of those guarantees will be …
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Micah Parsons’ ex-teammates wanted him to put down the mic. Some of the star pass rusher’s former Cowboys teammates viewed him as “egotistical” and “self-centered,” according to Sports Illustrated, and he even rankled some — including quarterback Dak Prescott — with his “The Edge with Micah Parsons” podcast. That created a different perception in the locker room amid Parsons’ contract …
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Current Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer will never (at least while he still has that job) share his true thoughts on the decision to trade linebacker Micah Parsons to the Packers. Former Cowboys coach Jason Garrett had no qualms about sharing his unvarnished reaction to Thursday’s stunning move. “I was shocked,” Garrett said on Friday’s PFT Live. “You know, the most …
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Packers quarterback Jordan Love appeared on Micah Parsons’ podcast during Super Bowl week and said he wanted Parsons to join him on the Packers. At the time, few thought that could happen. Now that it has happened, Parsons was asked about Love’s recruiting him to Green Bay and said it wasn’t a serious discussion because at that time, Parsons thought …
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One week before the start of the regular season, the Cowboys and Packers completed a landscape-altering trade. Micah Parsons will play out his second contract in Green Bay after talks with Dallas did not produce a deal. Further details on the process which ultimately resulted in Parsons landing a record-breaking investment for non-quarterbacks have emerged. The four-time Pro Bowler and his camp …
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