The preseason is over, and NFL teams will be making cuts to trim their rosters to 53 players with the 2025 season on the horizon. One CBS Sports analyst was asked about the winners and losers of the preseason, and he focused on the Dallas Cowboys.
Throughout training camp and the preseason, Dallas have dominated the national media with the contract standoff with star edge rusher Micah Parsons. Moreover, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Parsons have gone public with how the situation is playing out behind the scenes.
Dallas’ next game is on September 4 against the Philadelphia Eagles to open up the 2025 season. The question there is whether Parsons will be suiting up to play in that contest.
Cowboys’ Jerry Jones gets ‘loser’ label
With so much noise surrounding the Cowboys, CBS Sports’ Emory Hunt labeled Dallas and, more specifically, Jones, the losers of the preseason for how the front office handled the entire situation with Parsons.
“The Dallas Cowboys stood out, not just the entire team, because it’s not about the team,” Hunt said on CBS Sports HQ. “It’s about Jerry Jones, because Jerry Jones has been playing all of us for a fool.
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“I am still thinking he’s going to get Micah Parsons signed, but you went through this entire offseason — spring, OTAs, minicamp, working minicamp, training camp — dragging this whole Micah Parsons contract situation along. He hasn’t been out there getting the reps with his guys and getting ready for the season.
“If you do sign him at the 11th hour, the opening week kickoff, now he’s going to have to get ramped up in terms of getting ready to play, which could hinder him in having that success right out of the gate… Are we being played or is this deal going to get done? Right now, I would say he’s a loser. We’re probably the losers for falling for it.”
