If there was any hope that the Dallas Cowboys would be better off on the future day when Jerry Jones handed control of the team to his son, that hope is dead.
And it is Stephen Jones himself that killed it off over the past weekend, too.
With the elder Jones getting heckled by the fans with chants of “Pay Micah” and “Sell the team!” you’d have thought the younger Jones would have taken notes. He clearly chose not to.
Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones on the “Pay Micah” chants from practice yesterday:
“We want to pay Micah too. He has to want to be paid.” pic.twitter.com/Vt8ogYyvwA
— Nick Harris (@NickHarrisFWST) July 27, 2025
Micah Parsons clearly wants to get paid. He is clearly ready to get paid.
His stats have proven he should get paid.
Yet, here we are, and Parsons still hasn’t gotten paid.
The reason is pretty plain to see. Jones Inc. wants to low ball the best player they have on defense. They aren’t speaking with Parsons’ agent at all, according to some reports.
They’re still trying to negotiate with Parsons directly.
That’s now how it works with anyone who is represented by an agent.
That is the case in sports. In case you were wondering, that’s not how it works in the publishing world either.
Both Jerry and Stephen Jones need to quit playing these games and start conducting business the correct way.
Who knows, maybe they’ll stumble across that elusive sixth Lombardi Trophy along the way.
They Do Know How
The Cowboys’ front office brain trust does know how to sign their players to extensions before their rookie contract expires.
They proved that over the weekend when they inked tight end Jason Ferguson to a 4-year, $52 million deal.
Why they can pull the trigger like this for one player while bungling the negotiations so badly for another defies explanation. The Cowboys love to bargain bin shop for free agents.
You’d think that would loosen the purse strings on their star players’ deals.
History Keeps Repeating Itself
The thing to remember is that this is not some new budget strategy Dallas is employing under the guidance “Cap Boy Blunder”, a.k.a. Stephen Jones.
This insanity dates all the way back to the 1993 season. Back then, fresh off of a Super Bowl victory, Emmitt Smith wanted to be paid for carrying the Cowboys to that title. Jerry Jones balked at paying Smith back then.
In less than a year, Jerry Jones would claim “500 coaches could have coached the Cowboys to back-to-back championships” and ran off Johnson.
Before the 1993 season, although he never publicly said it, one wonders if he thought “500 running backs could run behind that offensive line” and drafted Derrick Lassic to prove it?
An 0-2 start to the season snapped Jerry Jones back to reality then. Maybe a nearly 30-year championship drought will snap him back to reality again?
The man who has the ignominy of firing every head coach in Cowboys history (except Shottenheimer, obviously) Believes HE is the face of the franchise. Sadly, he is.
The NFL should intervene and stop this, like they did with the Raiders and the Colts.
I won’t hold my breath.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s like I keep on saying Jerry Jones is a senile, idiot and I wouldn’t be shocked and surprised that Stephen Jones is another idiot of the family and all the sports media groups stands their and listen to Jerry Jones like I keep saying before the Cowboys won’t win a super bowl while Jerry Jones owns the Cowboys and is the Cowboys G.M.
Dude…. Please read the replies to your stupid comments…. Please!! You have no idea what your talking about!! You say the same thing over and over again and every time it’s completely wrong or makes no sense at all!! Like your comment here…. You say as long as Jerry owns the Cowboys and is the GM, the Cowboys won’t win a Super Bowl, but the last time I checked, Jerry has 3 rings on his hand!! So the facts are that the Cowboys have won 3 Super Bowls while Jerry has been the owner and GM!! So like I said, your comments are completely wrong or never make sense!! And just because it’s been almost 30 years since the last time we won a Super Bowl, it don’t mean Jerry is the problem!! And if you were really a fan since the 70s, you would know what the problem is, and you would definitely know at least a little bit about the team, but you literally don’t know anything!! And just to throw some knowledge at you, the last time the Cowboys won a Super Bowl was the 95/96 season, and after that win, Stephen Jones was handed more control over the team, which means he was able to make more decisions on how the team was ran and how the team was put together and the biggest part…. He was in full control of the salary cap, which is why we no longer spend big on good free agents!! It’s because Stephen wants to build the team through the draft and spend little on free agents to fill roster spots!! So if you can’t read between the lines…. The problem with the team is Stephen Jones!! And he’s been the problem since 96!!
And why do you keep saying stuff about the sports media?? What do they have to do with anything!? It doesn’t matter what they say about the Cowboys….. None of it is gonna make a difference in how the team is ran, so again, why do you keep bringing them up, and what do they have to do with anything!?
Why do you keep saying Jerry ran Jimmy Johnson off?? That is NOT TRUE!! Why don’t you try learning about that situation instead of acting like you know what happened!! And like I said before, it doesn’t matter what happened between Jerry and Jimmy at that time, Jimmy was planning on leaving the team anyways, he had it written in his calendar the exact day he was gonna leave and everything!! And because him and Jerry got into that argument, Jimmy decided to leave a couple months sooner!! But either way, Jimmy wasn’t gonna be our coach anymore, which means he wasn’t gonna be the coach the next year anyways!! Because he was already planning on leaving!! And it’s not hard to know that, any Cowboys fan that actually pays attention to the team knows it!! And it’s as simple as watching the Jimmy Johnson exit interview!! He says everything in that interview that I just said in this comment!! But like I said, you have to be a fan to know that, because a fan would’ve seen that interview by now!!
I was a beat writer covering the NFL and the Dallas Cowboys when this went down.
Where were you exactly back when all this went down, sonny?
I’ve actually spoken face to face in interviews and post-game with both Jerry and Jimmy. Have you?
Jimmy doesn’t leave if Jerry keeps his trap shut and checks his ego at the door. Jimmy’s exit interview was given the way it was so as not to burn any bridges with any future NFL coaching openings, like the Miami job he landed in 1996. If he’d burned Texas Stadium down to the ground on the way out, no other NFL team would have hired him.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s Jerry Jones must be paying you very well because you hate hearing the truth about your boss Jerry Jones
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that this dude is really Stephen Jones.