Jerry Jones spent much of the offseason talking about -- but not to -- Micah Parsons , and many of those talks proved unproductive. On April 1 at the NFL annual meetings , Jones disclosed that he had talked to Parsons plenty but that he wasn't worried about talking to an agent and in fact he didn't even know the name of Parsons' agent. Parsons shot back, via X, that he wouldn't do any deal without the involvement of his agent , David Mulugheta, and a stalemate ensued.

Four months to the day after the first signs of contentiousness emerged, Parsons, then holding in at training camp, requested a trade with a lengthy post. He no longer wanted to negotiate without an agent, he didn't want to be on a team that took shots at him for being injured (which Jones did in July ), an

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