Jerry Jones’ comments about agent and contract talks prompt Micah Parsons’ response

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PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jerry Jones no longer carries around a flip phone. The Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager has an iPhone. He says not many have his personal cell phone number. One person who does is Micah Parsons.

Jones estimates that the two have talked five or six times recently in regards to Parsons’ contract situation. Jones has not had similar conversations with Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta. According to Jones, he doesn’t know his name. That’s very difficult to believe considering Mulugheta represents several of the NFL’s highest-paid players, from Deshaun Watson and Jalen Ramsey to Jordan Love and Derwin James.

“The agent is not a factor here, or something to worry about, ” Jones said Tuesday from the annual league meeting. “And I don’t know his name. My point is, I’m not trying to demean him in any way, but this isn’t about an agent. The agent doesn’t have one thing to do with what we’re doing when we get on the football field.”

Jerry Jones says he doesn’t worry about agents in contract talks. He’s been having conversations directly with Micah Parsons about his next deal. He said Micah is one of a very few people who have his cell phone number pic.twitter.com/DCORGH7z7v

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) April 1, 2025

Recent social media posts from Parsons suggest that his agent means more to these negotiations than Jones is acknowledging.

After some of Jones’ Tuesday quotes surfaced on social media, Parsons responded by saying on X that he won’t be finalizing a contract without his agent’s involvement.

Facts!! David is the best and I will not be doing any deal without @DavidMulugheta involved! Like anyone with good sense I hired experts for a reason. There is no one I trust more when it comes to negotiating contracts than David! There will be no backdoors in this contract… https://t.co/nxKNSIXLvt

— Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) April 1, 2025

Two weeks ago, Parsons posted on X that Mulugheta has his best interests and that he feels sad for players getting “violated by teams because of lack of decency and effort by their agents!!”

Parsons has one year left on his rookie contract, something Jones made clear to reporters Tuesday. While that’s true, things appear heading in a similar direction to the franchise’s contract negotiations with Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb last year. Lamb wasn’t signed until four weeks of training camp practices had been completed. Prescott’s deal wasn’t finalized until hours before the season opener in Cleveland. In the end, both players got just about everything they wanted. Lamb became one of the highest-paid non-quarterbacks in league history. Prescott became the highest-paid player in league history.

There’s no reason to think Parsons won’t eventually sign a deal that makes him the highest-paid non-QB. Like with Lamb and Prescott, the longer this draws out, the more Parsons is likely to receive. Jones did share that negotiations with Parsons are further along than they were with Lamb last year at this time. Jones called them “very good” discussions and a “real good meeting of the minds.”

“I’m the one who has to sign the check and Micah is the one who has to agree to it,” Jones said. “That’s the straightest way to get there, the one writing the check and the one agreeing to it talking. I understand all of the other issues.”

But why wait any longer?

“I don’t view it as urgent at all,” Jones said. “Using the basis that the earlier you get something done, the cheaper. Or the earlier you get something done, a lot of times they don’t want to stay cheap. You might want to see a few more cards played, not with just that particular negotiation but with the whole team. I know I’m kind of being a little defensive here, but the idea that the only success is getting a contract done at an early time is incorrect. I’d rather pay more and get it right than have paid less and screwed it up. You can screw it up pretty good. You can go too early and misread the athletic ability, you can misread availability for the future.”

None of those things seemed to be an issue recently as star pass rushers Myles Garrett and Maxx Crosby and star wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase signed deals that made them among the league’s highest-paid players. All three have annual salaries that average more than $35.5 million per season. Chase tops the group at $40.25 million per season, making him the current highest-paid non-QB in league history.

Jones said he had no reaction to hearing of those contract extensions that have likely impacted Parsons’ next deal.

“When making a financial decision,” Jones said. “I have never looked at how other people are paying because more often than not they are not comparable situations, they just happen to fit the timing and happen to fit the position. What I do is what fits me and what fits the circumstances behind what I’m doing.”

He then referenced overpaying when he purchased the Cowboys in 1989. He repeated how most of his successes in life have come after he has overpaid for something.

“I have a lot of confidence in managing money,” he said. “And I have a lot of confidence in looking around the corner, getting a feel for where the revenue is going to be or not be.

“I’ve never had anything I wanted that I couldn’t get. Ever. I’ll figure out a way.”

Jerry Jones with the latest on Micah Parsons’ contract situation. He said term, guarantees and money have all been discussed with Parsons pic.twitter.com/FFHxM4O8Lg

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) April 1, 2025

One way or another, Parsons is expected to eventually get a deal done with the Cowboys that makes him one of the league’s highest-paid players. After that happens, the expectations will be continued dominance on the field, but also more in terms of leadership.

Parsons has acknowledged that he is ready to embrace a bigger role in that area. The Cowboys believe he will be attending offseason workouts even if a new contact is not reached by then.

“Micah has to be the player that he wants paid as,” Jones said. “He has to be a tremendous leader for the Dallas Cowboys. He has the skill, he has the capacity mentally, and so for us to justify the kinds of dollars we’re talking about with any basis, he has to literally lead the way. And he’s so substantive that if he’s halfway not leading, it’s glaring. And so Micah has to really lead, I think he’s committed to do that. The agent won’t be within a million miles of him when we’re executing on what I’m talking about right here. That will be something that we might be visiting about on a week-to-week basis or talking about. So there’s nothing but good in my mind that comes from someone in my spot negotiating directly with a player.”

(Photo: Emilee Chinn / Getty Images)

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