“I don’t understand the Amari Cooper trade,” Cowboys All-Pro “Lion-backer” Micah Parsons says. We hear you, Micah. And were here to help.
FRISCO - The always-outspoken Micah “Foot Fetish” Parsons is at it again, this time expressing confusion over a trade his Dallas Cowboys made almost a year ago.
“I don’t understand the Amari situation,” the All-Pro “Lion-backer” recently said. He said, “And I ain’t ask enough questions to figure out what was going on or why that happened. …”
Here’s the part of the question we are happy to answer, as CowboysSI.com broke the story of the organization’s disgruntlement over the four-time Pro Bowler Cooper’s effort, availability and “shrinkage.”
We have never necessarily taken Dallas’ side here; rather, we’ve reported the facts on management (and some on the coaching staff) deciding that there were better ways to spend $20 million.
Opinion 1: Dallas did indeed spend that $20 million elsewhere as part of building a 12-5 team; that result is hard to argue against.
Opinion 2: The trade of Cooper to Cleveland was itself not the problem; the reward in the form of a measly fifth-round pick was and is the problem.
Opinion 3: A year later, even after the Pro Bowl step-up of CeeDee Lamb, Dallas is still in search of another Amari-level producer.
That, in fact, is the most important part of Micah’s latest monologue on the state of the world.
“I love Coop and I love what he (bright),” Parsons said. “Hopefully, we get somebody of his caliber again.”
And that sentiment? That’s one that, from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on down, everyone in Cowboys Nation, can “understand.”
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