David White suggests NFLPA told Jerry Jones to stop negotiating directly with players

One thing became abundantly clear during the Cowboys’ failed effort to keep linebacker Micah Parsons in Dallas.

Owner and G.M. Jerry Jones has zero regard, or respect, for the agents who represent his players.

It wasn’t a new development. But it was never more obvious than it was over the past several months, when Jones believed he had directly negotiated a new deal with Parsons, and when Jones expected Parsons to honor the terms of the supposed handshake deal.

From Jones’s feigned ignorance as to the name of Parsons’s agent to Jones’s repeated comments relegating the role of agent to bystander at best to the process of getting deals done, it was clear that Jones was violating the letter and spirit of the CBA, which delegates to certified representatives the exclusive right to negotiate