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Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast, an emergency edition of the Adam Schaefter podcast, because when there is a seismic trade that is made in the national football league, one of the biggest trades we've seen in recent years, it is time to put together an emergency podcast to break down and look back at the Micah Parsons

situation. Now, last week, some 10 days ago, we said on this podcast that these two sides were

headed for a divorce. The tape is there. You can listen to the audio. We said that it was not going in the direction

that it should be. The two sides were not talking. That it looked like Micah Parsons would not be

signing another contract with the Dallas Cowboys. And the reason we said that is because if we go

back to late March and early April,

the last time that Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons discussed a contract, Jerry Jones had a handshake

agreement on a deal that he felt would pay Micah Parsons an average of $40.5 million a season. At the time,

that deal would have made Micah Parsons the highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history. It was a

mark that later in the summer, T.J. Watt would exceed. But at the time, the $40.5 million deal a year was something that Jerry Jones

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