After Micah Parsons’ outstanding performance with the Green Bay Packers against the Commanders, Jerry Jones continues to face criticism over the controversial trade.
However, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys once again insisted in an interview with 105.3 The Fan that the decision was the right one, especially for Dak Prescott.
“We all know that whatever one player gets, the others don’t get, because there’s a pool of dollars. You’ve got to divide it up very carefully. That’s the art of the deal. Which way we’re better off? The one player (Micah Parsons), outstanding. He’s an outstanding player. But we should be able to get, as a matter of fact, we’ve got one on the field (Kenny Clark). And of course, people say: ‘But he’s no Micah.’ Well, I’m not going to debate that at all because Micah is very special. But I’ll tell you this right now. By the time this happens and as we look forward to Dak’s time when we made his contract and we looked forward, this was the best way to maximize our chance to get a Super Bowl for Dak.”
Why did the Cowboys trade Dak Prescott?
Jerry Jones reiterated that the main reasons why he traded Micah Parsons were to free up salary cap space and then, with those resources, look for more players to strengthen the Cowboys’ roster.
“We want to take the resources. The resources of course being the room under the salary cap. My point is, one guy doesn’t do it. Now, the closest thing there is for one guy to make that much difference is a quarterback. When you start going from there, then you’ve got to really look at allocating $100 million, $200 million dollars and allocating that over many players and positions. That’s exactly what I did.”