Cowboys owner Jerry Jones insists his team made the right move in trading away Micah Parsons.
After weeks of discourse surrounding the deal which sent Parsons to the Packers, Jones acknowledged the trade, saying that the Cowboys are not the only team “playing without Micah.”
“There are 30 other teams, other than the Cowboys, playing without Micah,” Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan. “There’s ways to play defense and scheme that don’t necessarily involve, on any player, whether it be Deion Sanders, looking way back or who it is… A lot of people won a lot of games and didn’t have Deion Sanders on the field for them.
“How’d that happen? That’s called you’ve got to have about minimum 40-something players to play this game.”
Jones then brought up the success of trading running back Herschel Walker in 1989 for an array of draft picks that ultimately set the Cowboys up to win three Super Bowls in the 1990s.
For the Parsons trade, however, Jones believes that it has improved Dallas’ chances at winning now.
“I see an allocation. I see more of an allocation here,” Jones said. “As opposed to Herschel Walker, which was to basically get draft picks and was basically a recognition that we would compete on another day, this was not that. This was a very conscious trade to get three, four, five, six players for one.
“Which will be better off? The one player? Outstanding. He’s an outstanding player. But we should be able to get, as a matter of fact, we’ve got one on the field [Kenny Clark]. And of course, people say, ‘But he’s no Micah.’ Well, I’m not going to debate that at all because Micah is very, very special.
“But I’ll tell you this right now, by the time this happens, and as we look forward to Dak’s time, when we made his contract and we look forward, this was the best way to maximize our chance to get a Super Bowl for Dak [Prescott].”
Jones’ comments come just a day after a stellar Week 2 performance from Parsons, helping Green Bay to a 27-18 win over the Commanders on Thursday.
The four-time Pro-Bowler notched eight pressures on 37 pass rushes on Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels, along with two tackles and half a sack.
Following the win, which gives Green Bay a 2-0 record, fans erupted in a “Thank you, Jerry!” chant, referencing the Cowboys owner.