by: Sam Gillenwater 1 hour ago samdg_33
On Thursday, the Dallas Cowboys traded Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers for Kenny Clark and a pair of first-round draft picks. In the end, ESPN’s Mike Tannenbaum thinks that return is just a fraction of what the franchise could’ve gotten back for one of the best players in the sport coming out of this contract fiasco.
During the reaction to the deal on ‘Get Up’ on Friday, Tannenbaum, as a former general manager, felt Dallas got just 60 cents on the dollar in this deal for Parsons. That’s after allowing this offseason’s negotiation to get to the point where the value to acquire him was far further down than it would’ve been for other interested teams in the market for him.
“60 cents on the dollar,” Tannenbaum determined. “The fact that they didn’t create a sense of urgency in March was a massive mistake that will cost this franchise for years because you just don’t know who else would have stepped up back then.”
Formerly having worked in a front office in the league, Tannenbaum couldn’t understand how or why the Cowboys actually did a deal that sent Parsons out. Not only was he the team’s best player, and set to be so for the next decade-plus had they signed him as many still expected them to, but trading him away seemingly goes against the trajectory of everything else they’ve been doing over the past year or two, and certainly just doesn’t allow them to be better in Dallas.