Our judgment, this gives us a better chance to be a better team than we have been the last few, several years.

Since Michael's been here, not any negative on Michael, but we're trying to get better.

We're trying to stop the run and stay in the hunt.

That's Jerry Jones. It's a little bit of the press conference that happened yesterday.

It felt like a victory lap and a sales job to get the fans to not burn their tickets

and boycott the team with one of the great defensive players in all of football being gone

in exchange

for Kenny Clark and a couple of first round draft picks joining us now guy who coached the Dallas

Cowboys, worked with Jerry Jones, worked with Stephen Jones, understands how the sausage is made there.

He's Jason Garrett from NBC's Football Night in America.

Give me your first reaction when you saw yesterday that Michael Parsons was being traded.

I was shocked. I was shocked. You know, the most important player on a football team is the

quarterback. The second most important player in a football team is the guy who can negatively

affect the quarterback. And those guys are hard to come by. And ever since that guy has come into the league,

he has been a dominant player. And you and I have talked about this a lot, Mike, that he's

transformative. He changes the whole team. If you think about the Cowboys in 2020, they were

six and ten. They weren't a very good team and then he gets there along with defensive

coordinator dan quinn and all of a sudden they're a different team and uh if you look at all those

interceptions that their dbs were making bland and digs and and you know intercepting them and running

back for touchdowns and he he and ha ha ha look what's going on around the

quarterback on those throws micha parsons is the guy causing all the problems and uh those guys are

hard to come by if you think about you know four years 52 sacks he and reggie white being used in

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