Micah Parsons still doesn’t have a new contract with the Dallas Cowboys.

It still feels like a foregone conclusion that it’ll happen eventually, but on the eve of training camp, the lack of a deal is hovering over Dallas.

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Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer broke down the situation on Monday, and there are a few key takeaways.

For one, the money will be there. Breer writes: “What seems certain is that the average per year on Parsons’s contract will have to start with a four and the guarantees will have to be well into nine figures.”

It’s also been a longer wait than it needed to be.

“The trouble, of course, is that the bond they’ve built doesn’t necessarily make a negotiation any less complicated between a front office and an agent,” Breer writes. “Or change the fact that Parsons waited the extra year (or had to wait the extra year) to get his second contract, or mitigate that owner Jerry Jones said he’d never heard of superagent David Mulugheta.”

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Breer goes on to write that it’s not yet clear whether there’ll be a holdout.

Parsons was in attendance at OTAs and mandatory minicamp, so he hasn’t been too contentious up to this point.

But it would certainly be easier for everyone if a deal could just get done already.

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