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. The first person I thought about 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 Michael

Parsons not $188 million 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 Emmett Smith. You can talk about Dak Prescott signing on I think it was the day or the day before the opener last year. You can talk about C.D. 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 period,

whether as the pregame post game host or... 16th year, I don't even know, where I have worked almost every cowboy game for that period,

whether as the pregame postgame 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 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, allow me. 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. Twenty-twenty-two, they beat a bad bucks team, whatever. Then they

play in San Francisco. He played every defensive snap. They lost that game. He had zero sacks,

zero tackles for a loss, one quarterback pressure. 2023, they were a damn good football team.

They lose to the Packers and lose big.

Zero sacks, zero tackles for a loss, one quarterback pressure,

and Green Bay rolled up 450 yards of offense and led 27-0 in the second quarter.

2024, it comes back after injury, was supposed to be the savior. You know, Dak Prescott was injured, but he's going to lead them out. His first game, he played about half the snaps. All right, they get beaten by the Eagles, fine. The next week, a home game against the Texans. He played 96% of the snaps. They lost 3410. He had one tackle, one tackle, zero sacks,

zero quarterback pressures. I'm not saying he's not a great player. We know he's a great player.

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