The Dallas Cowboys are in the middle of an awkward situation with one of their best players, linebacker Micah Parsons. Parsons’s contract renewal with Jerry Jones’s franchise has stalled over the last few weeks, and rumours of the player being traded have begun to spread.
The two-time All-Pro is so disgruntled about what he perceives as unfair treatment by the Cowboys that he took to X to write a three-page-long list of grievances against America’s Team. From a public relations standpoint, the situation could hardly be worse.
Former Heisman Trophy winner, turned analyst, RGIII thinks this is a disaster for the Cowboys and another sign of how their division rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, continue to outperform them on and out of the field:
Micah Parsons is showing the difference between the Cowboys and the Eagles.
Pay your best players early to keep your team chemistry intact.
If your locker room doesn’t believe you will pay them when they earn it, you will only have great players, not a great team.
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) August 1, 2025
“Micah Parsons is showing the difference between the Cowboys and the Eagles. Pay your best players early to keep your team chemistry intact.” Wrote RGIII on X
“If your locker room doesn’t believe you will pay them when they earn it, you will only have great players, not a great team.”
It’s baffling how the most valuable sports brand in the world, as the Cowboys are worth $8.8 billion, would fumble such a basic part of the business: Retain your key players. By comparison, the Eagles might only be the 12th most valuable sports brand in the world (With a value of $6.6 billion), but they have won two Super Bowls in the last decade. Dallas’s last Super Bowl victory was in 1996.
Micah Parsons’ grievances with the Dallas Cowboys
Things seem to be at an end between Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys. On Friday, the linebacker took the extreme measure to go on X to explain his dissatisfaction with the way the franchise has handled his renewal. He further explained that he didn’t see a future for himself in Dallas and that he had already handed his transfer request to the Cowboys’ owner, Jerry Jones.
“Unfortunately, I no longer want to be here,” Parsons wrote “Up to today the team has not had a single conversation with my agent about a contract … I stayed quiet but again after repeated shots at myself and all the narratives I have made a tough decision I no longer want to play for the Dallas Cowboys.”
Thank you Dallas 🦁👑 🙏🏾! I pic.twitter.com/EUnEj9uRUt
— Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) August 1, 2025
Jones was confronted with this information by the press over the weekend, during the team’s preseason training camp, but neither confirmed nor denied that he would trade Parsons.
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