Frisco, Texas – Take a shot With two hypotheses concerning Micah Parsons, now just eight days before the opening of the Cowboys and NFL season on September 4 against the defending champions of the Super Bowl in Philadelphia.
First of all, Micah signs the extension of the contract he “held” for negotiations with the owner of the Cowboys Jes Jones, knowing that the clock turns. Great, that means that he can deposit a signature bonus of a million dollars with two figures that day in the account of his choice. This also means by staying on the current list of 53 men, he will go back to the team, which he has not done since the first week of January.
But how much can it be prepared to play in its first real football match since January 5, after missing the entire offseason, the training camp, the pre-season and, depending on the moment when this hypothetical takes place, the training led to the opening of Thursday evening only four?
Leave Cowboys head coach on Tuesday, Brian Schottenheimer, answer him for you after having pointed out that he spent an hour talking with Micah on Monday, but nothing to do with contractual negotiations:
“In the end, as soon as he can go out, it’s great, but again, there will be a rise in power for him. And when he aligns himself there to play, I think he would play 75 pieces and each game? Probably not. I don’t think it’s real, but I think he can be very disruptive as we all know.”
So, if paying attention, the signing of an extension is one thing, but being physically capable of playing at this stage approaches something else.
Second hypothetical: Micah and his agent do not reach an agreement with the cowboys on an extension, but still under contract, this fifth year option, guaranteed to $ 21 million still intact. It leaves him two choices. Put an end to his “hold-in”, comes back to practice and is ready to play in the opening so physically capable because, after all, the game is located in its original state of Philadelphia but 107 miles from his hometown of Harrisburg. And we are talking about the Eagles of national television with millions and millions of others like watching around the world. Micah is quite aware of his brand. Oh, and it is also paid, if on the active list of 53 men.
Ok, but refer to Schotty above. Will playing in the game, whatever the timing will be an intelligent thing to do even at this stage with still 16 games to play in the season?
The other choice? Refuse to go back to training or play in the game without the extension under contract. This continuous “hold-in” would probably leave cowboys the real option to place it on a sort of reserve list, thus preventing it from winning $ 1.2 million per week, the fifth year option pays. I must be powerful engaged in a reason to give up this kind of money. And while players will never express this, which also means having turned their backs on their teammates.
And that too is relevant for the discussion since Micah is under contract: nothing prevents the negotiations of extension in progress during the season, Jerry reminding everyone about a week ago, there is no “deadline” to reach an agreement in his mind.
Tuesday, Schottenheimer therefore had to answer the proverbial and inevitable question of “distraction”. For example, to what extent does this extension appear and do the mangances that accompany it interfere with the beginnings of the planning capacity of the first head coach?
“The commercial side of it still works. In one way or another, the commercial side still works,” said Schottenheimer. “It’s not something I really control.”
But again, let’s bet the dollars to a Schotty donut is well aware of this shots to hypotheses.
- Maybe make cents: It seems that there was this tumult from the outside of the star for the cowboys to release the first round choice in 2023 Mazi Smith, giving no consideration to an empty list of defensive players in the range of 320 pounds. But it turns out that it met: the Mazi salary ceiling in 2025 is $ 3.6 million. Liberating it would have cowboys of $ 7.8 million in dead money on its fully guaranteed contract of $ 13.274 million dollars would absorb. Now, by answering the question of Mazi, Schotenheimer said that he had a long conversation with his incoherent defensive tackle, indicating why he had been kept on the 53 -year -old list, saying: “I wanted Mazi to know, hey, that has nothing to do with you, a choice of first round.” Base. “All made up to me and you. They also hope “fuel oil” pending.
- Batter of the list: Schottenheimer did not joke Tuesday saying: “We will certainly be active”, which means that after the initial reduction in alignment to 53 years. And it didn’t take long for cowboys to express their dissatisfaction with what they were dealing with in secondary school. In fact, less than 24 hours later, making derogation complaints on two defensive backs, the former burden of 2024 seventh Trikweze Bridges and Nickel Corner Reddy Steward, who had spent the 2024 season on the Bears training team under the eye of the Cowboys defensive coordinator now Matt Eberflus and the secondary coach David. And its bridges that could be the price that tells me. Why, to make room for these two DBs, the cowboys freed Andrew Booth, who had trouble in the training camp, and the free agent recruited Zion Childre, which seemed to be the nickel corner if Trevon Diggs was not ready to play in the opening. These guys were apparently only simple spaces reserved, because the competent bodies were necessary for the cornerback, although Childrade was signed in the training team if he erases the exemptions. Do not be surprised if Steward moves directly into the slit, even at 5-11, 178. This type at Troy University made games on the ball. In fact, its last two years in Sun Belt, the corner of 4.45 seconds have totaled seven interceptions, two of them choose six. And even in pre-season for the Bears last year, Steward won two assists in a match, the second a choice of 46 yards six.
- More movements: During the publication of these two half -by -corner, place for complaints for renunciation, the cowboys also open two other points of alignment by going from the original list of 53 men after their permanent stay, the Coin Coin Coin Carson and the ball carrier Phil Mafah, who are now eligible for the return of the IR after four games. As has repeatedly said to young guys who initially list the 53 men, do not go out to buy a house yet. Always more movements to make.
- This and that: Wednesday at 3 p.m. Wednesday, the cowboys had signed 15 players in the 16 men’s training team, probably holding 16th Spot for Childrade, the 15th, the most in particular in particular in particular, will be girging, the wide receiver Jalen Brooks, the Kemon Hall corner half, the tight wing of Princeton Fant, the wide receiver Traeshon Holden and the friend of secondary Johnson, a player of special valuable teams … with all the workforce of the alignment on Wednesday and Thursday, the Cowboys before returning on Friday, Balance Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday and Thursday with Off on Saturday, trains on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and nothing more than one procedure on Wednesday before boarding the Charter flight to Philly this afternoon … Hope being parsons in one way or another with the team in preparation to potentially play Thursday evening, the same thing with Trevon Diggs, and as far as Tyler Guyton, it seems that The Opender… As a part of Schottens Perrion Winfrey making the team, he described the second year player saying: “You light the film and this type is a disturbing and bad ass football player.”
And speaking of Winfrey, the former defensive tackle of Oklahoma and the choice of fourth round of the Browns of Cleveland in 2022 encountered legal problems in 2023, which released Browns. This made the 2024 season of 6-4 and 290 pounds miss, then relaunch his career in 2025 by playing for Birmingham from the UFL and signing with the Cowboys this summer. Again, head coach Brian Schottenheimer catches the last word while telling this story about one of the new additions of the team.
And believe me, this should be plural “words” since Schotty told the discussion with Winfrey when he told the 25-year-old he made the list of 53-year-old cowboys, which does not normally occur in the NFL, the meetings of this cup day generally reserved for those who are cut.
“Brought Perrion Winfrey, and he supposed he was cut, so he entered, sat in my office and Will (McClay) and I played a little.
“And he became very emotional, and I became emotional, and I looked at McClay, and he was emotional. And when you talk about an incredible guy kidnapped from him, you realize how much these players love this game, what they sacrifice to play this game, what they have to abandon and cross, the blow that it takes.
“But the emotion of this one, to see Perrion to act as it showed me two things: it showed me the passion he has for this game, but also the pain he had to pass by removing him and not knowing if it would work or not. And I told him, the reason we wanted to do it (in this way) is that I wanted to see the reaction because I thought that we do not.
And a special story that we all had to hear.
