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Try as we might, we cannot confirm that as the negotiations between the Cowboys and the Packers got hot and heavy, the Giants, in an unprecedented maneuver, offered to part with one of their own future draft picks to sweeten the pot for the good folks in Green Bay. 

There also has been no proof uncovered that the Giants leaped into the fray by sending for a private plane to escort Micah Parsons away from the NFC East, the division he wreaked havoc on for the past four years. 

The Cowboys trading star edge rusher Parsons to the Packers for two future first-round picks and defensive tackle Kenny Clark sent shockwaves throughout the NFL. What at first seemed to be the typical sky is falling, nasty contract/no-respect rhetoric between team and player — see Trey Hendrickson and the Bengals, Terry McLaurin and the Commanders and Myles Garrett and the Browns — completely unraveled this time around. 

Teams simply do not ship out homegrown talent with Parsons’ pedigree and youth (he’s 26). Every 2025 opponent of the Cowboys is happier now than they were before. There are 30 general managers wondering what the heck the Cowboys are thinking and another one — Brian Gutekunst of the Packers — looking up to the heavens and giving thanks that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ ego-driven bombast purged his roster of its best player.