Is Jerry Jones dragging out Micah Parsons talks for attention?

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And let's get Micah Parsons on the field, if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan.
Here is what Jerry Jones said today, walking off the field in Oxnard, another day in which Parsons did not practice, but he was somewhere near the fields.
Asked if there is a deadline, this is from Todd Archer at ESPN, whether Micah would play September 4th against the Eagles.
Jerry Jones said, no, not at all.
You don't have deadlines when you're playing under a contract.
In other words, dude, not only are you under contract, oh by the way, I have two franchise tag years if I really want to use them.
Charles Robinson, it was August 1st, if memory serves, when Micah Parsons hit send on a three-page iPhone notes post saying, see you, I'm out of here.
Are we any closer to a resolution, because I cannot believe he's gonna get traded.
So I'll ask you guys this.
Jerry's got a Netflix program coming up, right?
And he's the master of promotion, and he has said in the past, Jerry has said, when it gets quiet, I like to stir it up a little bit.
Like when it gets quiet around our team, and all of us, we spent, I spent 25 years around NFL teams and all I hear is, we want it to be quiet.
And he's on the other end of the spectrum.
It gets quiet, he gets itchy, right?
Like he wants to get thrown out of an Apple, Applebee's when it gets quiet.
That's Jerry Jones.
So, so, is there a chance, and it was funny because the, the general manager posed this to me.
He said at one point, Is there any shot?
They know they're gonna pay him.
They they know we're gonna pay them $45 million a season.
We're gonna, we're gonna trump all the numbers.
But is there a chance that Jerry is doing this to keep the Cowboys constantly talked about leading into this Netflix series that's coming out about Jerry Jones.
And at the time, I was like, nah, I'm like, he's pretty crazy.
I'm like, but I don't think he would do this.
And, and, you know, you're like, you know, what Micah wouldn't Micah have to be in on that?
No, Micah wouldn't, because if the Cowboys sit there and go, we write checks all the time that heal feelings, and we know how to do that.
Let's go ahead and go through this and earn as much publicity as we possibly can.
This is Terry Jones.
This is a theory, and at the end of the day, believe this.
Come on, it would be the craziest thing I'd ever seen.
Uh, but if one guy is gonna pull it off, it's Jerry, right?
But if one guy is gonna sit there and go, What if Jerry says, all right, here's the number?
I know this is the number, and I'm just waiting, and I'll give you the number like in two weeks.
And then Micah goes, yeah, you know what, I don't want that number anymore.
Like, I really do want to get trained like yesterday's price.
I think both can be true.
Like, I guarantee it, yes, that has crossed his mind, but the idea that he would actually frank do it, I just can't buy it.
I love this.
I love this conspiracy so much because Jerry Jones is the one guy who is like Charles, you talked about this, we've talked about this.
Thirty-one teams, thirty-one owners are like, don't create any controversy.
Keep everything quiet.
There's one guy out there who's like, yeah, I'll tell you what you need to know.
I don't really care.
Let's be realistic.
Had they signed Micah at the outset of camp or before camp, how much would we have talked about the Cowboys?
We would have been like, uh, we would have just talked about normal football stuff.
Uh, how, how this is.
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