Micah Parsons requests trade from Cowboys - are his days in Dallas over?

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Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz reacts to All-Pro linebacker's social media post that he no longer wants to play for the team — and answers whether he believes Parsons and the franchise will actually part ways.
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We got drama in Dallas as it appears Micah Parsons wants out.
He took to Twitter to say, thank you, Dallas, followed by a bunch of emojis that I won't try to read for you.
And now, according to multiple reports, the relationship is so fractured that he may demand a trade, may not want to be there at all, may just force this issue.
I would ask all of us not to be Charlie Brown running up to the football again.
How many times have we seen this?
As a collective media, as fans of the league, how many times do we see superstar players say, I want out, which really just means I want to get paid.
What they want is the bag.
What Micah Parsons wants is to be given the contract he feels he deserves.
I have no problem with that.
What's interesting is that we always presume it won't get done and that's just never the case with the Cowboys.
I understand patience.
Is a virtue and one that Parsons seems to be out of, and I don't blame him for that, but if we're being realistic here, what leverage does he truly have?
Does anyone believe in the peak of his prime that Micah Parsons is going to sit out the required amount of time that it would take, what, 10 weeks and then report to the team and then everything will be worked out?
Remember, he still got time on his contract and they still have the franchise tag.
The organization has all of the power in this negotiation.
This is not the same as Dak, where he was in a situation where his contract allowed him not to be franchise tagged, where he had total control.
That's such a rarity in today's NFL.
That's not the position Parsons is in.
Well, I understand we all want to react and certainly everybody wants to find a trade package that would put Micah Parsons on their favorite team.
I don't blame you.
We would all love to go out and buy that jersey, but if we're being real, I can't see any package that would ever make the Cowboys decide that they're not in win-now mode.
When is it an organization ever decided the future and a rebuild is the right approach?
They just don't do that.
So realistically, where do I think Micah Parsons is gonna land?
Right in Dallas, where he's always been.
What's the most realistic solution to this?
A long, drawn-out, very public negotiation that just gets uglier and uglier and ends up in a mega deal with the Cowboys, and we will forget all about it while he plays the rest of his career, at least for now, in Dallas.
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