It has been more than two weeks since Micah Parsons submitted his trade request to the Dallas Cowboys' front office. That would light a fire under most teams to work out an extension, but it didn't move the needle for Jerry Jones, who is clearly reveling in all of the attention, even if most of it questions his desire to win and mocks his ability to run an NFL franchise.
While it appears there is real content between Parsons and the Cowboys, making Parsons the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history would likely mend fences in short order.
With each day that passes, though, a trade theoretically becomes more likely and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network has gathered some new - and nightmarish- intel on Parsons' market. Appearing on the Pat McAfee show, Rapoport circled the Packers as a potential landing spot for Parsons.
"I would expect the Packers to be among the teams really interested. They have paid Jordan Love, they have a bunch of really good young players, but there's some guys they haven't paid. They have money to spend and they are really good. So that's the kind of team that I would say if Micah was going to be traded that he'd be going to."
Cowboys trading Micah Parsons to the Packers would be a full-blown nightmare
It should be noted that Rapoport didn't mention the Cowboys' side of the coin.
While the Packers may be prepared to pay a king's ransom for Parsons, there isn't any evidence to suggest that Dallas would actually send him to Green Bay, which handed the Cowboys their worst home playoff loss in franchise history just two years ago and have been a consistent boogeyman for Dallas over the last 15 years.
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Jerry and Stephen Jones maintain they have zero interest in trading Parsons despite the trade request.
Let's say for the sake of argument that the relationship is fractured beyond repair. It stands to reason that the Joneses would send Parsons to an AFC team rather than an NFC squad, let alone one of their biggest out-of-division rivals in the Packers.
Hypothetically, a team like the Patriots, who have a promising second-year quarterback in Drake Maye and loads of cap space would make a lot of sense. The Chargers and Raiders are other reasonable landing spots, but again we are speaking in hypotheticals.
Jerry Jones might be soaking in all of the coverage stemming from this saga, and there are legitimate questions about his desire to win a Super Bowl, but deep down the businessman side of Jones surely knows that trading Parsons would make the Cowboys borderline irrelevant in the NFL landscape.
Thinking of Parsons repping a Packers uniform is enough to make any Cowboys fan crash out, but just because Green Bay would go to great lengths to acquire him doesn't mean Dallas would oblige.