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It's been a lot of football today, as you can imagine, almost entirely, actually. And we welcome into the program. One former giant from Fox Sports, Jeff Schwartz, Jeff, Willie, and Jerry in New York. Good morning. Thanks for getting up. How are you doing? I'm good. Thanks for having me today. Jeff, thank you for doing it. We got to get right to it. Michael Parsons is now a Green Bay Packer. Give us your thoughts.

Man, so many things here. We'll start with this. So when Michael Parsons has played, and he's played, obviously, most of his career so far, he's not been that injured.

The Cowboys defense is number one in the NFL in efficiency, in EPA. And there's 31 in about a thousand snaps he doesn't play. Just from that perspective, you know, he's one of the better players in National Football League in any position, right? If he's that impactful to a team, you know, when he's on the field, you're number one, and when he's not, you're 31st. That just shows you the type of player he is. And then the whole premise of this, like, I shake this hand and that was a deal. According to who? Like, you only have a handshake deal of both sides agreed to a contract. And very clearly, Parsons not agreed to the contract. They might have talked parameters, hey, I want to make this much money and this be the length. And then I would imagine Parsons was like, okay, cool, like, all right, meeting over. Here's, you know, we took her hands to leave the meeting and let me talk to my agent. And the fact that Jerry treated it this way and thought Parsons was dumb enough to sign a contract on his agent being involved.

Of course, our players that don't have agents, but Parsons very clearly as an agent.

And, you know, it just screams incompetence, right?

It's why the Cowboys have not been good for so many years.

I'm watching the Netflix documentary in the Cowboys.

This is really good.

And one thing you notice is they have, what, the second best quarterback in the NFL, the first best running back, the first second best best wide receiver, the best cornerback, Charles Haley, like, having the best office. I'm all the best players. That's how he win a championship. He's letting one of the better players go. And he got in return to what? Two first round picks that would probably be in the 20s and a defensive tackle. And I know the people will say, well, the Packer had to pay him a lot of money. Okay. I'd pay for that. I pay for Parsons. He's that impactful of a player. So I don't get what Dallas is doing. This feels like it could be a big derail of the season, right? I mean, think about, you know, you're in the locker room, you don't have a, you have some good players, but you have very few players like Parsons, any locker room. And before the scene starts, you train them away. They play in six days, right? They play Thursday night. That's a need to moralizing for the new coaching staff, the locker room. I think Dallas is the world that hurt this season. They might be. And I'm certainly not going to sit here and argue with you for the next 20 minutes. But, you know, Willie and I were talking earlier. And I, all full disclosure, Jeff, I grew up a cowboy fan. I work for Compass Media Networks. I've done their pre and post. I've seen every one of his games. I love the kid. I really do. I wish he played his entire career with the Cowboys, but the one thing, and then we can move on from it, the one thing that I've remembered, and I've always come away with in four playoff games, he's got one sack, four quarterback hits, and the word you use, a lot of people have too, so you're obviously with the majority here, and I'm in the minority, very little impact in those games, and most of them losses, and and in some cases you might have been the number

one defense but boy when green bay came in they steamrolled that number one defense and he was

completely invisible so i understand both sides of it i do wish he stayed um and the way it was handled

bizarre um and i know you know you in all your dealings in the nfl was there ever a time you dealt with

an owner first agent second or was it always agent first buddy i was never good enough how those

questions will be on her ever so i was to reach a certain level of play maybe will he got there at some point in his career. I did not. I mean, I knew the owner, especially when I saw the Giants, like I knew the owners, you know, I was one of the big three agents, but I never was like, hey, buddy, let's talk, let's talk on track. No, never. All right, maybe a better question then. Were you ever aware of a situation like that with anybody else?

No, I mean, no, because, like, you know, Steve Smith was perpetually unhappy in Carolina,

but that wasn't our own contract related.

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