Jerry Jones throws Micah Parsons into the middle of Cowboys' latest controversy
On Saturday, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones finally faced questions about the topic the team asked reporters to avoid in the team's kickoff press conference earlier this week: Zack Martin's holdout. And it appears Jones made the most out of the following days to draw up his answer. "We’ve had talks," the Cowboys owner told […]
On Saturday, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones finally faced questions about the topic the team asked reporters to avoid in the team's kickoff press conference earlier this week: Zack Martin's holdout.
And it appears Jones made the most out of the following days to draw up his answer.
"We’ve had talks," the Cowboys owner told reporters via ESPN's Adam Schefter. "We’ll play it day by day. We’ve got a guy out here, (Micah) Parsons, who's going to need a little money.”
I guess he's not lying but the correlation isn't nearly as strong as Jones would like fans to believe. For starters, Parsons can't even begin negotiations with the Cowboys until the end of the 2023 NFL season. Even then, he'll still have one year under contract and the franchise will have the ability to pick up his fifth-year option to lock him down through 2025.
Meanwhile, Martin is signed through 2024 and what he's reportedly seeking is a more than doable pay bump. Having signed his current deal in 2018, Martin is making around $7 million less than the top-paid guards in the league.
While it's understandable that there's a deal in place and the front office has leverage because of it, the Cowboys had to be aware when they agreed to it back in 2018 that a six-year deal would likely have to be renegotiated at some point. Especially with it being Zack Martin, who's earned four First-Team All-Pro seasons since his current contract was signed.
Sure, when the moment comes, Parsons is going to break the bank. He's already established himself as one of the best defenders in the game and has shown no signs of slowing down. But using his name as one of the reasons why the front office is struggling to fix things with Martin seems like a reach at best and it likely won't move the needle at all.
For now, all we know about Martin is he texted second-year lineman Tyler Smith: "I'll be there soon."
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