WAKE UP! ON ETB | Check out The Bulletin Board; nobody’s worried about Cowboys-Parsons situation now, but they will be in September if he’s not there
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Not much talk now, but…
…There will be a LOT of it if the Dallas Cowboys start the season without edge rusher Micah Parsons.
Parsons is at camp with the team in Oxnard, California, but he’s not practicing. He’s wanting a new deal. His current one expires at the end of this season, and if you’re thinking, “Well, of all the nerve! He’s got a contract, he should play!”
That would make you unfamiliar with how the NFL does business. For some reason, if your contract is a season away from expiring, you hold out that season and don’t play until you get a new deal, or an extension on your current one. That’s usually done on the advice of agents.
Parsons, though, sees his contemporaries like Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt and Las Vegas’ Maxx Crosby sign deals, and wonders why his isn’t being attended to.
“When you go around the league and you see these other teams taking care of their best guys, I seen T.J. (Watt) gotten taken care of,” Parsons said Tuesday. “Maxx (Crosby) got taken care of. Myles (Garrett) got taken care of, [and] he’s got two years left on his deal. You see a lot of people around the league taken care of, and you wish you had that same type of energy.”
But again, this is how the Cowboys have done business waiting until the star, whomever it may be, is either holding out or threatening to, and then suddenly a new deal is announced. About a month ago, here on ETBlitz.com, we recalled how the 1993 Cowboys started the season 0-2 when running back Emmitt Smith was holding out in a similar situation.
Parsons has four seasons under his NFL belt and in that time, he’s got 52 1/2 sacks. He had 12 last season, even though he missed four of the team’s 17 games with a high ankle sprain.
For his part, count teammate Trevon Diggs — who was injured last season and is currently on the PUP (physically unable to perform) list — among those skeptical of the Cowboys’ “negotiating tactics.”
“He’s the best player in the NFL, like, why wouldn’t you pay him?,” Diggs told the media at camp Tuesday.
Rangers Report
Texas grabbed a 2-1 win over American League West Division rival (the former) Oakland A’s on Wednesday. The A’s are in the AL West cellar (42-62 overall) and don’t look to be climbing out anytime soon. But the Rangers are 53-50, in third place in the division, and starting to put some separation between themselves and the fourth-place L.A. Angels. Texas is 7 1/2 games behind the division-leading Houston Astros (60-42), and a game and a half behind second-place Seattle (54-48). Texas is 8-2 in their last 10 games.
The Rangers are off today, and then welcome the Atlanta Braves in for a weekend series at Globe Life. Game one is Friday night, a 7:05 p.m. first pitch, with Joey Wentz on the mound for the Braves and Nathan Eovaldi for Texas.