Micah Parsons' trade request last Friday sent quite a tremor through the NFL landscape. Players of his caliber—that young, that athletic, that productive—simply don’t become available. "Is this real?!"

Alas, for the other 31 NFL teams, it is not.

The timing and public nature of his statement make it a jarring headline. And yes, he did formally request a trade. But this isn’t the end of his Cowboys career.

The hard feelings, however, are real. Parsons is over the drama and mad about how Jerry Jones has treated him. And Jerry feels burned by how their March conversation unfolded. The trade request is just the latest move in a high-stakes game of chicken. One that has frayed the relationship between Jones and the Dallas Cowboys' best player.

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