Wow. I was way wrong about all of it. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand Jerry Jones’ angle on this—Parsons seems like the kind of guy you hang on to like grim death. Maybe there was just no way to repair the working relationship, but man, what a player to give up.
Obviously for us, this is Gute taking his Reggie White/Charles Woodson shot. The thing is, though, the stakes are even higher because of the draft capital involved, plus giving both a pass rusher and a QB the bag at the same time is going to make for some really difficult decisions pretty soon. We pretty much have to go to the Super Bowl in the next two years or this could get ugly. It probably would have, anyway, but this cements it.
If nothing else, Gute is matching the urgency he expects of the locker room.