Yesterday, Willie, good morning, sir. How are you? Good morning, sir. I did say where there's smoke, there's fire, as we were discussing the Micah Parsons situation.

You're the first person I thought about. I was like, Jerry, wasn't lying. Now, I never thought that this was going to happen. I ultimately thought that as the Cowboys have in the past, they would get to the final hour and they would pay micha parsons not a hundred and eighty

million dollars over four years but i did think that he would get his contract ultimately i thought

there was a chance he might sit out next thursday maybe then sign you can go back with emitt smith you

can talk about d prescott signing on i think it was the day or the day before the opener last year.

You can talk about CD Lamb getting his money.

All these guys getting their money.

Well, in Micah's case, that did not happen.

And I'm going to tell you right now, I have been a lifelong cowboy fan.

I have worked for Compass Media Networks for this would be my 15th or 16th year.

I don't even know where I have worked almost every cowboy game for that that period whether as the pregame post game host or even i've had the privilege to call i think nine games over the last four years as well this is not going to be the usual take i'm not annoyed at at this. And I'm going to lay out my reasons why.

And I think, I think we're in agreement. Would I have loved Michael Parsons to stay in Dallas for his

entire career? Absolutely. Why wouldn't you? But when you attach the money and the salary cap to it,

and a couple of things I'd like to run, if you will, I like to run a couple of things through you.

I know he's 26 and hopefully getting better. But this is what I know from what I've seen.

And these are the days that I have said, what the hell? All right? I'm going to give you

2021 a very young Micah Parsons, but making a big name for himself, they play the Niners in the playoffs.

Zero sacks, one tackle for a loss, zero quarterback pressures.

2022, they beat a bad bucks team, whatever.

Then they play in San Francisco.

He played every defensive snap.

They lost that game.

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