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Micah Parsons SHOCKING TRADE to Packers: Jerry Jones’ Ego Just Doomed the Cowboys I Instant Reaction
Aug 28, 2025
In a move that stunned the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys have traded All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers for two first-round picks and DT Kenny Clark — and Damon Amendolara isn’t holding back.
D.A. fires back at Jerry Jones, calling out the Cowboys as an unserious franchise more enthralled by fame and optics than championship success. Trading your defensive cornerstone just because negotiations broke down? That’s not leadership — it's capitulation. Meanwhile, Packers fans have every reason to celebrate: this isn't too high a price for a game-changing talent like Parsons.
In this video:
Why the Cowboys are the real losers in this blockbuster trade
How Jerry Jones’ ego cost Dallas their chance at a title
Why Micah Parsons represents a Super Bowl-level upgrade for Green Bay
Packers win today. Cowboys? They walk away with disappointment.
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Why does news, massive breaking sports
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news always seem to happen when I'm on
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vacation? Micah Parsons has been traded
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to the Green Bay Packers. And yeah, this
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deserves an emergency reaction, an
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instantaneous reaction. And Rosie the
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Cat is here with me looking down, making
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sure that I get this thing right because
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she also thinks that Jerry Jones is a
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Okay. For the Packers, it gets them
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closer closer to winning a championship.
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for the Dallas Cowboys. It just
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reaffirms the disaster that is Jerry
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Jones as general manager. We start with
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the Cowboys side of things because you
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just can't believe that a franchise that
1:06
is serious about winning would ever
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trade away a player as talented and as
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youthful as Micah Parsons. I'm going to
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give you a stat, okay, that to me sums
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up how ludicrous it is to trade away
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Micah Parsons. Now, I'm not the biggest
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Micah fan. And I think when he gets
1:23
compared to Lawrence Taylor, I think
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with all his slew of headline making
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podcast clips, I think the fact that he
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loves to be a star as much as he does in
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terms of talking in terms of probably
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overexposing himself instead of really
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focusing on the winning part of things.
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That that part of Micah Parsons I'm not
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a huge fan of. But the production is
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undeniable. Here is the stat I'm talking
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about. There are two players in the NFL
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in the annals of the NFL dating back 50
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years who have had four seasons of 12
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sacks or more to begin their career.
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One is Reggie White, two is Micah
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Parsons. We are talking about a player
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in Micah that has the same production as
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the greatest NFL defensive lineman of
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all time. And again, we're talking about
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a player that's in his mid20s
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entering his prime. To me, it is
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insanity to say that you want to win a
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Super Bowl while also trading away
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Michael Parsons. And this is why it is
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so ridiculous to claim that Jerry Jones
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cares about winning. He does not
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prioritize winning. Winning is a
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pleasant byproduct.
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But as long as he is famous, the most
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famous, the most powerful figure within
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the organization, and everybody
3:04
recognizes it, that's actually the
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priority. That has always been the
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priority. And it's very interesting,
3:13
perhaps ironic, that we are watching in
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real time this Netflix documentary,
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which documents the Dallas Cowboys under
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Jerry Jones. It is it is interesting and
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ironic that that's the timing right now
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that we have as this thing goes down
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because if you watch the documentary
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closely, you notice that is really one
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big glamour shot for Jerry. Jerry
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clearly gave the documentary makers
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access to everything within the
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organization with the understanding,
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hey, you'll do right by me. He basically
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commissioned a biography about himself
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and wanted to make it cool. And you you
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don't need to look much further than the
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part about the Hershel Walker trade,
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which of course jumpstarts the dynasty
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of the '9s in skipping over who made
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that decision, who brainstormed that
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idea. That is not Jerry Jones idea. That
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is Jimmy Johnson's idea. But the fact
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that the entire build of this franchise
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in terms of why we're making a
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documentary about them happens because
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of a trade that the head coach comes up
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with and that is skipped over tells you
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what is the most important piece of the
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puzzle for the storytelling. It is that
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Jerry is the focal point of everything.
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So in this case finally there was a
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Dallas Cowboy player whose integrity
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couldn't be bought.
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Jerry could go down this kind of rabbit
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hole of headline making and public
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negotiation
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and dismiss embarrass Dak Prescott. He
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signed CD Lamb. He signed Ezekiel
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Elliott. He signed Zack Martin. He
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signed all these guys signed
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and Micah refused to do it. Micah
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refused to do it. There was too much
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water under the bridge. became too
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personal for Michael Parsons to swallow
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and stomach. And so that's why he walked
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the line of there ain't nothing bringing
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me back. You have to trade me. Which is
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why we're at the part that we're at.
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Which is why the Dallas Cowboys, who
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pretend to be a contender or a winning
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organization, would trade away a player
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of that production of this age at a
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moment where the franchise is still
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pretty good. I mean, we're talking about
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a team that has made the playoffs or
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danced with the making of the playoffs
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for how many years in a row now with its
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franchise quarterback healthy under
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center with a dynamic wide receiver with
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pieces in place like a star linebacker
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to be able to contend in this division
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and in the NFC at least for January. But
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they are unserious
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as a true championship contender. I look
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at the Buffalo Bills now. Which position
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would you say is more easily um
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fulfillable, more easily recyclable? Is
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it running back or is it edge rusher?
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The Buffalo Bills saw a window in time
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where they need to win a Super Bowl,
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that they've got all the pieces in
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place, and that they are championship
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driven come hell or high water. And
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James Cook, despite having an incredibly
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deep back field, one so deep that Frank
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Jr., who had a tremendous preseason was
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didn't make the final cut. They gave
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James Cook the money because the Bills
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recognize this is their moment. The
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Dallas Cowboys, and by the way, you can
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find another running back to probably be
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James Cook, but it might be in next
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year's draft, and they're not willing to
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punt on a year of contending. Well, the
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the Dallas Cowboys could be a contender
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obviously, but when you punt on Michael
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Parsons, it's a lot harder to find a guy
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that has 12 sacks in his first four
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seasons. You know how I know that?
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Because the last guy was Reggie White.
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Let's go back to that. So, it's just an
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unserious approach to winning games,
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winning divisions, winning playoffs, and
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winning Super Bowls. It's an unserious
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franchise because of Jerry at the top.
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And much ink has been spilled. Much uh
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airwaves have been taken up, including
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my own, discussing what a hypocrisy it
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is that Jerry talks about Super Bowls,
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but rarely ever doesn't prioritize
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getting them, winning them. He
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prioritizes attention. That is his
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scoreboard attention. And this was
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another case where drawing attention to
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a negotiation was more important than
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getting the negotiation done. And it bit
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him and it came back to bite him. And I
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think this is a lesson to Jerry, one
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that he will not learn, which is you can
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play and dance all you want in your
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sandbox that you built. You can get off
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on the fact that people are talking
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about you. You can love the fact that
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people are are discussing you on on TV
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shows and radio shows and on the
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internet etc. But it will never help you
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win what is most important. It will help
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you win attention. But we are not in the
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attention economy when it comes to
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competitive sports. My industry, sure.
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In competitive sports, the scoreboard is
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not how much attention you get. It is
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whether you got the ring. And Jerry
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hasn't had one since Jimmy Johnson left.
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Okay? And I'm not counting 95 with Barry
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Switzer because that was Jimmy Johnson's
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team that won in spite of Barry Switzer.
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Ask anybody on that team. As for the
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Packers, the Packers are doing what a
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winning franchise does, saying this
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price is worth it to get this player
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because we're close and this player,
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Micah Parsons in this instance, might do
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what we need him to do to hoist a Vince
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Lombardi trophy, that he might be that
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final piece. And perhaps they believe
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that he is definitely that final piece.
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And that's why this cost is not too
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much. It's two first rounders and Kenny
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Clark. Kenny Clark is a really good
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player. But you know what the the the
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Green Bay Packers have done throughout
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their last 40 years, 30 years is draft
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really good players. It is why they have
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won Super Bowls in the last 30 years. It
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is why they have gone to NFC
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Championship games on a relatively
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regular basis compared to the Cowboys.
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It is why they have gone from Brett
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Favre to Aaron Rogers to a pretty good
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quarterback right now in Jordan Love.
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It's because they draft and develop well
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and they rarely they they never do
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anything for the attention. They do it
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for the winning, for the W's, for the
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onfield product. And Micah immediately
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makes them better. And I would say in
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the NFC where the Philadelphia Eagles
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are clearly a the power to be toppled,
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the Eagles proved two years ago how kind
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of up and down their roller coaster can
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be. There's the Washington Commanders
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who have a dynamic young quarterback but
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have to do it again. That what they
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proved to us last year. You have a Lions
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franchise who has been knocking on the
10:31
door but unable to break through. You
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have a NerS franchise that might be now
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aged out of their championship window.
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And you have a a couple of others that
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are around uh the NFC but probably not
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true Super Bowl contenders. The Packers
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have now squarely put themselves at the
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top or at least near the top of
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contenders in that conference as the
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other ones have some type of question
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mark.
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Doesn't mean that the doesn't mean that
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the Packers don't have question marks,
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but it just means that they eliminated
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one of them or might have erased a
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couple of them in one fell swoop because
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Micah is so good. I think what you see
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here is this kind of delineation between
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serious franchise and unserious
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franchise. The Packers want to win a
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Super Bowl and they're doing what they
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feel like they need to do to do it. The
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Cowboys are not. The Cowboys let
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attention and feelings and personal
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stuff get in the middle of everything.
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And that is led by none other than Jerry
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Jones, who needs to always feel the most
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important and needs to always be the
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most famous.
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The price is not too much for the
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Packers. Their first round draft picks
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are going to average to be in the
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mid20s. That's the type of franchise
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they are. Clark is a really good player,
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a Pro Bowl caliber player, but not one
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that is um a type of player that's
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irreplaceable. So for the Packers, you
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trade away two ones and Kenny Clark to
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give yourself what you believe is now a
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window to win a Super Bowl of five to
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seven years. young quarterback, some
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young good pieces, a young edge rusher,
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and a head coach that's a really good
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head coach. You have now, as a Packers
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fan, gotten more evidence that your
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franchise is being stewarded by smart
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people at the top who do want to seize
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the moment. If you're a Cowboys fan, you
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have been reminded once again of the
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kind of uh hellscape you reside in. The
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90s were wonderful. The 70s were
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incredible, but it's been a long time
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since the Dallas Cowboys had winning as
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their north star on their compass. This
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is just another the next chapter in all
12:48
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