I think he should be the highest paid defensive player in the league if he is #5 graded edge rusher.
I mean, someone else on the roster is the highest paid player in the league and he isn't close to #5 overall at his position.
You're not supposed to be turning this into a Prescott thing and now you have why can't anybody leave this alone?
I mean you're not supposed to bring up the quarterback in a thread that has nothing to do with the quarterback.
But since you did let me educate you, first of all that's new market money for a guy who the year before he got paid, he was second team all pro, and 2nd MVP voting, technically he should have been the MVP..
so he's telling me the MVP isn't in the top five? he's been in the top five at least three times in his career ,just because last year it didn't work out well we're not going to be splitting hairs.. he could have went to three or four other teams for that same money, that's the point , that's his market other quarterbacks are within 5 million of him.. that have done less than him ,you know who they are should, I list you the top 10 quarterbacks who are all making over 50 million and how they all didn't make the playoffs last year, there's a whole bunch of them didn't even make the playoffs last year either...
When you open up a can of worms like this, how about bring some details quarterbacks are different, when they're getting paid, if they're already top ten and play top five, Their looking to be one of the top paid at their position, their position, that would be a capital THEIR, Not positional players.
But now let's go to Parsons ,he is not defensive player of the year, he's not even approached the current record in sacks, yes he deserves top five money,
that's what Trayvon diggs did ,quietly by the way, took #4 overall money and even right now he's still in the top 6 two years later, it was a very fair quiet smooth easy deal because there are a lot of those that Jerry did that you all don't bring up....
but when a player demands to be the highest paid non quarterback in the league instead of accepting a top five, when that's all he is, Parsons is the top five in his position, he's probably top five or top ten overall on defense in the entire league ,and he should be paid like it ,but if he holds out like he said he wouldn't then that's on him he does not deserve to be a $40 million player, we all know it he's not a quarterback he doesn't deserve next highest quarterback money because, he's not even the best at his position..
But according to Micah Parsons, he's willing to give the team a fair deal meaning he's not going to do that even CD lamb took #2 money, he didn't reset the market, he didn't get anywhere near quarterback money, not top quarterback money..
that is where this has gone wrong the last five years is this new word came up the phrase I want to be the highest paid non quarterback in the league meaning if there's 55 to 60 million sitting out there for quarterbacks they want to be making more money than anybody else in the league besides those guys.. and IMO that is a bad philosophy the league can't handle it it's too big a salary cap be paying everybody $40 million that's not a quarterback.
So, if Parsons is willing to do around 34 give or take a mil, I'm sure they can work out a deal but if he's pressing for something bigger than that the Cowboys might need to trade him get into the top five of this draft get another number one pick in the next draft and just get a new rookie pass rusher and I know it's tough to replace an MP....but it might be the reality.
And yes I said this about the quarterback as well, but don't think he wouldn't have landed on at least four to five other teams making that same 58 to $60 million he was not overpaid just by Jerry he got paid because of the market for a top quarterback in the league and yes he is a top quarterback he may not be top five because of 2024 but he's been in the five conversation many times..
So, in order for these things not to go South let's just not bring up the quarterback when it's not a thread about a quarterback because this is what's going to happen we need to bring in common sense in here because you shouldn't be comparing the quarterback to positional players that if they're on different levels when markets because it's harder to find one....