No matter what you hear these days, the Cowboys aren’t actually shopping Micah Parsons. Which is good, because North Texas couldn’t survive the loss of another civic icon so soon. Same as if the Cotton Bowl had suddenly imploded in 2012 before Big Tex stopped smoking.

"I don't wanna sit back and just watch other people build and build and build and [we] stay the same, so we definitely need some call to action," Parsons continued. Micah Parsons'

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And in the Cowboys’ own division, they saw ex-Giant running back Saquon Barkley go to the Philadelphia Eagles as a free agent and he went on to have one of the best seasons for a running back in history, as he helped lead the team to a Super Bowl title.

Dallas Cowboys two-time, first-team All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons is well aware of the ticking clock ahead of free agency. He called out the Cowboys to make good on COO Stephen Jones' word that Dallas would evaluate its prior free agency approach and change the practice in which the franchise spent the fewest free agency money in the NFL last offseason ($20.