FRISCO, Texas — Going forward, the Lion's den will be in Wisconsin and not in Texas. Micah Parsons was traded by the Dallas Cowboys to the Green Bay Packers one week ahead of the regular season opener, in a bombshell move that hit the NFL headlines like mortar rounds.

Plenty of questions were generated by the decision to send a perennial All-Pro out of town, and to a bitter rival within the same conference, no less, and owner and general manager Jerry Jones took to the podium only hours after the breaking news to explain his team's position on the matter.

"This was a move to get us successful in the playoffs," said Jones. "This was a move to be better on defense, stopping the run. This was a move to, if we get behind, to not be run on.
It was a deliberate move, a well thought out move t

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