Dallas Cowboys' Micah Parsons wants his new deal to be done by training camp, but if now, he'll still be around the team.
Dallas Cowboys' Micah Parsons has a way with words, and with his contract situation in the headlines most days, naturally, it can be tiresome.
Parsons has shown up to the early activities at The Star as the offseason begins, but with his contract talks moving rather slowly, some are wondering if Micah will follow in the footsteps of CeeDee Lamb, who held out of training camp due to no new contract.
Micah, when speaking at the Annual Reliant HR Derby, stated it is extremely important for him to get his deal done before training camp, but also said he would still be around the team in order to learn Matt Eberflus' new scheme.
"I'll still be around," Parsons said. "For me, I've still gotta learn a playbook and I'm not so much of an iPad person where I can just keep learning, like I gotta walk through it. Maybe it's so much I might not be on the field part of it, but I'll be there learning, so that way I'm at least getting prepared to be ready for Week 1."
So, it's important to Micah that his deal gets done before camp, and regardless, he'll be there in Oxnard.
Exactly in what capacity is unknown, and that might hinge on how the negotiations are going between his agent, David Mulugheta, and Jerry and Stephen Jones.
Parsons, so far this offseason, is doing and saying all the right things as one of the new leaders of Brian Schottenheimer's regime, but this contract situation, which might have the sides land on somewhere around $200 million over five years?
Well, the longer it goes, the more antsy people get.
But regardless of how things play out, when the Cowboys hit Oxnard to begin training camp, with or without a contract, Parsons will be there, as every team "leader" should be.
