The trade sending Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers didn't exactly win over a bunch of Dallas Cowboys fans who have already developed frustration with Jerry Jones. In fact, quite the opposite.
Trading away a player like Parsons was more than just a line in the sand in contract negotiations. The trade was personal for Jones, clearly, but was he right all along?
Before the game, Jones was doing an interview with former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett as well as Maria Taylor of NBC Sports, and even though everyone knows negotiations became a bit personal, Jones made some valid points about paying Parsons an exorbitant amount and sacrificing other areas of the roster as a result. And it just so happened that we saw his point fleshed out in the thrilling tie between the Cowboys and Packers on Sunday night.
Jerry Jones (somewhat) vindicated after Micah Parsons failed to beat Cowboys
Jerry Jones: "They got Micah and we've got what we've got, and we tied" 😂 pic.twitter.com/Ww9rHsezIZ
— Oh No He Didn't (@ohnohedidnt24) September 29, 2025
The hilarious reality of a one-game sample -- and to be fair, it is a small sample -- is that the team with Micah Parsons couldn't beat the Cowboys without Micah Parsons. You could also make the argument that the Cowboys might have made another play or two defensively if they did have Parsons, as opposed to giving up 40 points to the Packers, but that's not the point for the moment.
This is not great news because this one-game sample was proof, at least in the eyes of Jerry Jones, that he made the right decision.
"I knew that (Parsons) is the great player that he is. I like the way that we got ready to play him. We played him, we ran at him, but we knew he was there, and he made a difference, but that's the way it goes. Whether we like (the tie) or not, I'll take my side of it, and Green Bay can have their side of it."
- Jerry Jones (via NFL.com)
During his pre-game interview with the folks at NBC Sports, Jones made a comment about how they had Parsons putting up all the numbers he did in Dallas, but they didn't have any Super Bowl hardware to show for it. He's obviously not worried about the fact that other players and agents will see the way that whole ordeal went down, and possibly impact future contract negotiations.
As terrible of a pill as it is to swallow, the game against the Packers was somewhat of a microcosm of why Jerry might be right about the decision to trade Parsons, and why those IOUs from the Packers might come in handy down the line. Even with Parsons, even with injury issues on the Dallas offensive line, and even without CeeDee Lamb, the Packers couldn't beat the Cowboys.
Even with three QB hits on Dak Prescott, Parsons and the Packers couldn't get it done.
Nobody likes a tie, but Jerry Jones seems like he would have taken any form of not losing in a head-to-head matchup against Parsons to prove he made the right call, even if only to himself.