FRISCO – The Dallas Cowboys are beating their heads against the wall as a 3-6 team that is going nowhere. And speaking of “beating” … ESPN is back at it with yet another bogus “report” that has “America’s Team” tied to the idea of trading Micah Parsons. This foolishness started with an out-and-out lie from ESPN’s Adam Schefter that suggested there were pre-trade deadline “conversations” about a Micah deal.
It continued with ESPN anchor Mike Greenberg, not once but twice, pushing the ignorant notion that Dallas could pull off a “Herschel Walker 2.0” by trading Parsons. It’s dumb. It’s dead. There are circumstances under which the Cowboys – who are poised to pay Parsons as much as $40 million per year next offseason to make him the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history – could explore other options.
But in discussions about this, the options need to be real. And ESPN has botched that obligation at every single bogus turn. Now it’s Monday. Time to fill another segment. So along comes ESPN’s Dan Graziano, a traditional reporter by trade who should know better, who has become a cog in the ridiculous machine.
aziano is now floating the idea of a blockbuster offseason trade involving Parsons as a potential solution to the Cowboys’ rebuilding needs. “Oh, I can see the logic,” he said. “You could probably get three first-round picks for Parsons if you made him available, and my goodness would that help get things turned around for Dallas in a hurry. I wavered on this one, I promise you.” Related: Micah Trade Rumor Exposes ESPN’s True Clickbait Motives
Graziano apparently is following the lead of his colleagues in failing to do even one minute of research into the historical realities of what is being proposed. There is absolutely zero historical reason to think that a Micah trade can mimic the 1989 Herschel Walker trade, which in essence netted Dallas three first-round picks, two second-round picks, a starting cornerback in Ike Holt and, after more dominoes fell, the drafting of Super Bowl stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.
In one regard, the deceptive and moronic ESPN push, now featuring Graziano, has a point. If indeed the Cowboys can trade Micah Parsons to get three firsts, three seconds resulting in Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson? Yeah, Cowboys. Go ahead and do that. And hurry up about it.
