Welcome to the Rigger NFL show.

Shield Capadia here, joined by my friend Deontay Lee.

We got a little emergency pod because in a stunner, the Dallas Cowboys have traded Michael Parsons to the Green Bay Packers for two first round picks and defensive tackle.

Kenny Clark Parsons gets a four-year, $188 million extension.

That includes $120 million fully guaranteed at signing,

making him the highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL.

Deonti, I came on this pot earlier in the week and was doing,

don't fall for Jerry Jones's shenanigans. Give me a break. This is going to get done. I'm not, you know, you're wasting headlines. We're wasting pot. Whoops. Got that one wrong. So I was shocked by you, your level of shock when you saw from one to 10, maybe 10's Luca Donchick, from one to 10, what was your level of shock when you saw this trade go down today? To me, it's a 9, right? And I'm sure we'll get into all the reasons why, right? Like, the only reason why it's not a 10 is because of a little bit of the drama and bluster, I guess, that has been going on for the last month or so with this contract negotiation. but you couldn't have told me when I was talking,

you know, with our colleague, Lindsay Jones about being available this weekend. You know,

we were talking more in the context of the contract's going to get done. So let's just make sure

we're ready. We'll have something we can get a bagged out really quick and get up on the site.

I did not believe for one solitary moment that I would end my Friday looking at my phone, seeing that Michael Parsons is a Green Bay Packer now. Absolutely. Stunner. Same here. All right. Like Deante said, we're going to get into every aspect of this deal from the Cowboys side, from the Packer side, the compensation, Jerry Jones, all of it. We're going to take a break. We're going to dive into all

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We're back on the ringer NFL. So let's start with the Cowboys perspective. We got to start there, Deonti, because we both, we thought this was going to get done. You don't let players like Michael Parsons get out the door. You draft them, you develop them, you sign them. They're cowboys for life. That's not what happened here. And let's retrace real quick how it happened.

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