by: Dan Morrison 55 minutes ago dan_morrison96
There were few stories this offseason as captivating as the contractual standoff between star Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys. That would, eventually, end with a trade to the Green Bay Packers. Despite that, Jerry Jones believes that it was in the best interest of making the Cowboys Super Bowl contenders again.
Jerry Jones recently appeared on Good Morning America . There, he explained the logic behind trading Micah Parsons, explaining that it became about weighing the value of one player with multiple other players, both the picks back in the trade and what else the team can afford without having him on the roster.
“We have two kinds of capital or currency in the NFL,” Jerry Jones said. “One of them is draft picks. The other is the financial because every team is limited to the same amount of resources to spend, and having said that, Micah enabled us to have four, possibly as many as six players, for the future. That’s a good trade when you need numbers. I’ll take the numbers every time.”
Finding a way to get the Cowboys back to Super Bowl contention is, ultimately, the goal for Jerry Jones. This is a franchise that has won five Super Bowls but none since the 1995 season. That season was also the last time they made it to the NFC Championship Game. That’s the longest NFC Championship Game appearance drought of any team in the conference.