Right here is one thing it’s essential know in regards to the Cowboys, who nonetheless confer with themselves with a straight face as America’s Workforce: Since they gained their final Tremendous Bowl 30 years in the past, the Jets have gained extra playoff video games than they’ve.
Oh, certain. Since 1996, the Jets have a 7-7 file in playoff video games based on the Elias Sports activities Bureau (they know every part), along with enjoying two extra convention championship video games than the Cowboys have. The Cowboys? Their playoff file is 5-13. Hear, there’s a superb cause why the Jets, now below new administration if not new possession, have been considered some form of league-wide joke recently as a result of they’ve now gone so long as they’ve and not using a postseason look. However now the Cowboys appear to be an even bigger league-wide joke due to the best way they simply gift-wrapped Micah Parsons and despatched him off to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. Normally Jerry Jones simply will get rolled by gamers like Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb once they need to receives a commission. This time he acquired rolled by the Packers.
You need to know why Jerry, the good negotiator, couldn’t afford to pay Parsons what Parsons thought he was value? As a result of Jerry had already spent as huge as he did on Prescott and Lamb. So similar to that, between when Jerry ought to have signed Parsons again within the spring till Thursday, the Cowboys went from being a “now” staff for the upcoming season proper again to what they’ve been for a really very long time: A factor of the previous.
Oh, Jerry has as soon as once more let everyone know who’s in cost in Dallas. There he was negotiating like a madman by way of the media as an alternative of doing that with Parsons’ agent and making such a sizzling — and hot-air — mess out of issues. It’s why in the long run, he had no alternative however to maneuver the man to a Packers staff that’s youthful than Jerry’s staff, and extra gifted, and one with a lot better potentialities, potentialities now wildly enriched by including the man who was Jones’ greatest participant to their protection.
However you possibly can solely think about how relieved Cowboys followers should have been on Thursday to listen to Jerry — the soccer emperor with none garments — clarify that the commerce of Parsons is nice for the Cowboys as a result of it tightens up their run protection.
This is similar Parsons, in fact, who’s nearly as good at what he does on the defensive facet of the ball as Deion Sanders as soon as was at nook. The Parsons who remains to be simply 26 years previous and has solely performed 4 years within the NFL up to now.
Pretty much as good because the Herschel Walker commerce was 100 years in the past, the Parsons commerce is that unhealthy. Not solely the worst Jones has ever made. Probably the most monumentally unhealthy trades anyone within the sport has ever made. All due to the hubris — hubris on steroids — of their 82-year-old proprietor, who operates as if Troy Aikman and Michael Irving and Emmitt Smith are about to stroll again by way of the door.
Hear, everyone knows how a lot the Cowboys are value. Folks in outer house understand how a lot they’re value. All which means at this level is that they’ve became the game’s most costly clown automobile. Jones has formally grow to be the heavyweight champion of light glory in skilled soccer. He completely earned his place within the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame. He was as a lot a transformative proprietor in his sport as George Steinbrenner as soon as was in his. He put the Cowboys again on prime the best way George put the Yankees again on prime. However the one place the place Jerry leads the league now’s attracting consideration to himself, with none concern as as to if it’s good or unhealthy. He simply wants it the best way the remainder of us want oxygen. And continues to consider he’s some head-of-the-list, king-of-the-hill common supervisor.
There was a time when it appeared as if Jerry’s Cowboys, when coached by Jimmy Johnson, have been on their strategy to being the primary NFL staff to win three Tremendous Bowls in a row, and being known as the best staff of all time. Then he was useless sufficient and conceited sufficient to assume he didn’t want Jimmy any longer.
So Jerry employed Barry Switzer to exchange him, and the Cowboys did handle to win a Tremendous Bowl with Barry because the coach. They simply didn’t make the form of historical past these Cowboys of the ’90s have been speculated to make. The Cowboys hadn’t gained three Tremendous Bowls in a row, or 4. Now right here they’re, with no shot, none at profitable one other Tremendous Bowl this season, or anytime quickly.
Their final playoff recreation, at residence, was in opposition to the Packers the season earlier than final. They misplaced 48-32. Didn’t simply lose, by the best way. Bought thrown down a flight of stairs. By halftime of that one, you really began to really feel lightheaded watching the Packers run up and down the sphere and do no matter they wished once they had the ball.
Now Jerry Jones does every part besides rent a skywriter to let you know simply how a lot the sport has handed him by. Did he get two No. 1 picks from the Packers for Parsons? He certain did. They’re going to be someplace between No. 28 and No. 32, which makes them nothing greater than glorified second-round picks. No worries, although. Kenny Clark, who turns into a Cowboy now due to this deal, goes to make them higher in opposition to the run.
Someway there was Kirk Herbstreit on ESPN on Friday morning suggesting that this commerce would possibly make the Cowboys stronger as a staff. The implication being that Parsons isn’t actually a staff man. Certain. Go together with that. However wait — Dak and CeeDee have been staff guys once they have been those who wished to receives a commission?
Irrespective of. Luka Doncic now leaves Dallas in his prime and Parsons does the identical, besides that within the case of the Dallas Cowboys, there isn’t going to be a Cooper Flagg to place a shine on the deal after the very fact. Not in subsequent 12 months’s draft. Not within the draft after that. I preserve listening to, effectively, Jerry did draft Parsons. He did. With the No. 12 decide. You recognize who might have made that decide? You and me.
This isn’t on Micah Parsons as a result of he wished to receives a commission. Jerry Jones did this to himself. He desires us to assume that he and Parsons had agreed to a deal again within the spring. With out Parsons’ agent within the room?
On what planet?
The planet Jerry, is the place. He’s nonetheless common supervisor of the Cowboys. However he doesn’t have to fret about job safety. The Cowboys proprietor remains to be head over heels in love with him.
Put it one other method:
There are 31 different house owners within the league. Which one would rent Jerry to be his, or her, common supervisor?
DON’T FORGET VENUS’ PLACE IN TENNIS HISTORY, YANKS SET TO FACE VARSITY SKED & CHAPMAN’S BEEN A STAR …
The USTA has gone out of its method at this U.S. Open to honor the reminiscence and legacy of Althea Gibson, born in August of 1927.
She was, in so some ways, the Jackie Robinson of tennis, earlier than Arthur Ashe got here alongside within the Nineteen Sixties to win our nation’s nationwide championship.
It was Ms. Gibson who was the primary Black participant to win a Grand Slam event — the French Open — in 1956.
She went on to win the U.S. nationwide championship and Wimbledon after that.
After which 40 years after she had blazed a path like that in her sport alongside got here Venus and Serena Williams, two sisters out of Compton, Calif., on their strategy to changing into one of many greatest tales within the historical past of American sports activities.
As a result of Serena gained a lot, 23 singles majors in all earlier than she lastly walked away, Venus’ personal profession in singles will get misplaced typically. And shouldn’t.
Venus gained seven main singles titles in all, 5 at Wimbledon and two extra on the Open.
Within the final 100 years, that is the checklist of ladies who’ve gained extra Wimbledons than Venus did:
Martina Navratilova.
Billie Jean King.
Suzanne Lenglen.
Helen Wills Moody.
The older sister from Compton had recreation, too.
It’s why it was it was such huge enjoyable to see her again at this Open, in singles and doubles, on the age of 45, 25 years after she gained her first Open in singles.
She even had sufficient recreation to get a set off Karolina Muchova, the eleventh girls’s seed right here.
After that, she and Leylah Fernandez, a finalist on the Open 4 years in the past, went out and gained an entertaining first-round doubles match.
Venus honored Althea Gibson at this Open by nonetheless being part of the primary week of the Open.
So did Coco Gauff and Taylor Townsend and Naomi Osaka.
The road retains transferring.
Talking of the Open: What a disgrace it was to see Ben Shelton need to take himself out of the event with a shoulder harm on Friday.
Main League Baseball goes to insist over the following couple of weeks that the Yankees play a varsity schedule:
Astros on the highway, Tigers and Blue Jays on the Stadium, Purple Sox for 3 at Fenway Park.
Someway Kodai Senga already seems as if he wants a few weeks off.
Aroldis Chapman has, on the age of 37, grow to be one of many greatest stars of the present baseball season:
Fifty-seven video games coming into the weekend. 1.04 earned run common, 74 strikeouts in 52 innings pitched.
Kyle Schwarber continues to appear to be probably the most attention-grabbing slugger on the planet, even within the time of Ohtani and Decide.
By the way: Does anyone really consider Decide hasn’t been compromised since he damage his elbow?
Aaron Boone on Anthony Volpe: “We just hammer the struggles, because, on some level, there were people that anointed him and expected so much.”
These folks have been Boone and Brian Cashman, to not make too small some extent of issues.
Yet one more time from the balcony — as we’re listening to after one other faculty taking pictures that this actually isn’t a gun situation — I carry you the phrases of the good Pete Hamill:
What number of residence runs did Babe Ruth hit and not using a bat?
In it’s fifth week, James Patterson and Mike Lupica’s new Jane Smith thriller, “The Hamptons Lawyer,” stays on the Publishers Weekly Finest Vendor checklist.
Initially Printed: August 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT
