This football season just got a whole lot less entertaining for Dallas Cowboys fans. Actually, depending upon how you spin it, maybe it just got a whole lot more entertaining, thanks to Jerry Jones.
The Cowboys owner decided to trade Micah Parsons and, for the most part, this fan base lost their minds. So did the entire football world. Everybody legitimately thought Jerry Jones had lost his mind with this decision, yet he somehow tried to defend it -- not a surprise.
In an interview right after the trade, former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett was asked about the move when speaking with Mike Florio.
"If you're there as a head coach and it's a given that Micah Parsons is going to be traded, and then you say, 'well okay, where are we trading him to?' and they say, 'the Green Bay Packers.' What do you say in response to that?" Florio asked.
"Well, let's not do that. Is there anybody else who is interested? You don't want to trade him in the division. You don't want to trade him in the conference, if you can, or to a rival like Green Bay," Garrett responded.
Even Jason Garrett sees Jerry Jones is clueless after the Cowboys traded away Micah Parsons
He said the quiet part out loud. Garrett essentially said Jerry was mad as a hatter, and that's a fact we've come to know good and well.
We can make fun of Garrett all we want for whatever one of several shortcomings we'd like. But, even then, he is not totally off his rocker like Jerry. Even Garrett understands the fact that you simply do not trade a player of Parsons' caliber within the conference, and especially not to a contender like Green Bay.
But, here we are. That is exactly what Jones did, and the worst part is, he's going to stick to his guns until the day he dies. Jones will die on the hill that he made the right move. And all of this fan base won't even wonder why, at this point, because this has become the norm.
It's unfortunate. It's frustrating. It's mind numbing. But, this is the reality that Cowboys fans and players live in so long as Jones is in control, and Garrett knows it.
In fact, every coach who has ever been under Jones knows it. Even Brian Schottenheimer has to know it, but how often will you get the opportunity to coach an NFL franchise? There's no way, in his right mind, that Schottenheimer believes Jones is doing the right thing in this situation.
Garrett knows it. Every single fan knows it.