Why Will Some Teams Not Pay Their Star Players?
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:23.8 | for your chance to win those tickets. I would say if people want to chime in just on the |
| 0:29.2 | debate on the teriometer, if you think you like cakes at 85% or you're like Jason and I, |
| 0:35.3 | you think he's not going to miss any games. You're welcome to chime in throughout the hour. Take your calls or whatever. You don't have to do it right the second. But I do believe I think of the four guys. Who's the fourth guy? I'm not even familiar with the fourth holdout drab that you mentioned. Hendrickson and James Cook Parsons. See. I don't know James Cook's situation. |
| 0:54.8 | It's funny you mentioned that. |
| 0:56.9 | CBSSports.com has an article about the hold-ins, the most prominent hold-ins, |
| 1:02.0 | touching out all four of those players. |
| 1:05.0 | So let's touch on Micah Parsons first, and then we'll get to Terry toward the end. |
| 1:09.7 | Of the three that I'm familiar with, Michael Parsons, I think, would be maybe the most likely to hold out. So basically they're giving you the issue, the situation, the current deal, the demand, and prediction for each player. So for Micah, they say the issue is the four-time Pro Bowl past rusher claims he no longer wants to play for the Cowboys after an offseason |
| 1:28.2 | of unproductive negotiations over a long-term deal. So Parsons is at camp, but he's declining to |
| 1:34.8 | practice. His current deal, he's signed through 2025. He's due $21 million on a fifth-year option |
| 1:41.5 | to close out his rookie deal. I would say him holding out for me, |
| 1:46.1 | I mean, |
| 1:46.5 | him being suited up for week one, |
| 1:48.1 | it would be like at 40% at best. |
| 1:50.6 | Okay. |
| 1:50.9 | Maybe 20%. |
| 1:52.3 | We don't have a mica-o meter. |
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