Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has previously said he wanted to negotiate a contract extension with defensive end Micah Parsons while bypassing Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta, comments that have escalated the tense standoff.
In a clip from a soon-to-be-released episode of “The Stephen A. Smith Show” that was shown on ESPN’s “Get Up” Friday, Jones described the negotiation process as turning into a child trying to go to his mother and father, pitting each one against the other to get his way, something Jones is steadfastly against.
“I’m not going to go for that (expletive) here,” Jones told Smith. “That’s what’s happening. You’re not going for it? I’m not going for it. We’ve had a very, very strong negotiation. Frankly, it wouldn’t have made any difference what the negotiation was. Guess who has to be comfortable for this to work? Micah and who else?...There’s no room for a third.”
When speaking to former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin on his show, Jones said he had a deal in place with Parsons that would have been the most ever paid to a non-quarterback. Jones said that after he sent the terms of the agreement to Mulugheta, things came to a halt.
“I had already moved off my mark on several areas,” Jones told Irvin. “The issue very frankly is we’ve completed the negotiation in my mind, and the agent’s trying to get his nose in it right now and try to come in there and improve off the market we had already set. ... When we wanted to send the details to the agent, the agent told us to stick it up our (expletive).”
Parsons, who has been “holding in” as he waits for an extension, has not been happy with how things have unfolded, showing his displeasure by removing any mention of the team from his social media pages.
The stalemate comes as Parsons, 25, is trying to take advantage of the lucrative extensions that the top edge rushers in the league have received. The Cleveland Browns gave Myles Garrett a four-year, $160 million extension, and the Pittsburgh Steelers recently gave T.J. Watt a new three-year, $123 million contract extension with $108 million guaranteed.
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