There was nothing Dallas Cowboys overlord Jerry Jones could say to soften the blow of trading away Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers for defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round NFL Draft picks, but his press conference after the fact somehow made things worse.
In a rambling press conference that saw Jones once talk for 11 straight minutes without making any clear points, Cowboys fans saw their chances of competing in the next few years die in front of him. Even though he isn't a Cowboys fan, NFL Network's Kyle Brandt was absolutely livid.
Brandt called the Cowboys a "content company who does football on the side" after the trade, directly saying that Jones cares more about the attention that he and his team are getting than he does about putting a winning product on the football field. Why else would Parsons have been traded?
It doesn't take much to make fun of someone who just traded away one of the top 10 best players in football for pennies on the dollar for not honor a handshake agreement in the same way someone in the 1930s would have bought a house, and Brandt certianly got his money's worth.
Kyle Brandt rips Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones in brutal rant after Micah Parsons trade
Brandt took issue with Jones comparing this to the Herschel Walker trade, claiming that Jones sounds like someone who peaked in high school. Comparing playing Parsons when Green Bay comes to town in Week 4 to facing Emmitt Smith on the Cardinals, when he was in his mid-30s and physically broken down, is asinine.
Brandt noted that Jones, whom he ripped for calling Parsons "Michael" on multiple occasions, made a ridiculous comment by saying that he could use those two first-round picks to acquire Pro Bowl players. Not only will those picks likely be in the 20s, but Brandt compared it to having $20 million in the bank and spending it all on scratch-off tickets.
Jones' constant bloviating about stopping the run, which led to the Clark acquisition, also got Brandt irritated. Brandt claimed that justifying a Parsons trade in the name of trying to stop the run is like trading away CeeDee Lamb to run the ball better. Brandt compared Jerry Jones to an old woman who Brandt needs to remind to turn off the burner after she makes tea.
Jones deserves every bit of the lashing he is receiving from the NFL landscape, as his Parsons trade could go down in infamy as one of the worst moves in recent history.
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