Dallas has made a respectable offer. Micah’s ready to sign. Now the team must navigate a high-stakes, three-party negotiation where the agent isn’t just protecting a player—but the entire market as well as his own pockets.

But a much larger one is undoubtedly rooted in the same logic that led Jones to dilly dally with extending CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott last summer and will lead him to do the same with Micah Parsons despite Parsons all but begging for a deal to be done as painlessly as possible.