On Thursday afternoon, the NFL social media universe exploded with the news that the Cowboys were trading superstar Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers.
That move ended a drama-filled saga for the Cowboys, whose relevance in the last decade or so is centered around how much attention and drama owner and GM Jerry Jones can drum up each season.
It’s essentially a mandatory event that Jones will do or say something annually that will put the Cowboys back in the national spotlight, something they have struggled to do on the NFL gridiron despite the talent they’ve had.
So today, exactly one week before they face the Eagles to start the season on Thursday Night Football, the Cowboys are back in the spotlight for failing to do what all Dallas fans wanted.
Keep Micah Parsons.
It’s safe to assume that almost every Cowboys fans will blame Jerry Jones for this massive loss, despite picking up Pro Bowl DT Kenny Clark and first round picks in 2026 and 2027.
Jones definitely deserves a lot of blame for this fiasco, but instead of blaming Jones, we should all be bigging up Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta.
Mulugheta was the target of Jones, both directly and indirectly.
Back in April, news surfaced that Jones tried to deal directly with Parsons and leave Mulugheta out of the equation. At one point, Jones even claimed that he didn’t know the name of Parsons’ agent.
Right.
Mulugheta’s resume is one agents dream of having.
Between 2020-2022, he had the most first-round picks of any agency during that time frame.
In 2022, he had seven of the Top 100 players, including 4 in the top 50.
And in 2024, he became the first agent in NFL history to negotiate over $1 billion in contracts.
