Why Jerry Jones made curious NFL trade deadline move with Cowboys season at breaking point
Jerry Jones looked to the Cowboys' past when making a decision about the team's future.
Jerry Jones looked to the Cowboys’ past when making a decision about the team’s future.
That’s according to star linebacker Micah Parsons, who elaborated on the 82-year-old owner’s rationale of being buyers rather than sellers at Tuesday’s trade deadline, when the 3-5 Cowboys acquired Panthers wide receiver Jonathan Mingo for a 2025 fourth-round round pick.
“He was just like, ‘I’ve been here before.’ [Former Cowboys quarterback Roger] Staubach called me and was like, ‘We were 3-5 and we still made a run [in 1971 after going 4-3].’ So that gives Jerry his old-school beliefs,” Parsons said Wednesday, per CBS Sports.
“When your owner believes in it, and he truly believes these are the right guys, that gives confidence into the guys in the locker room because your owner believes in you. Even though you haven’t had the most success and things aren’t going your way, he still believes you can do great things.”
Although Staubach and the 1971 Cowboys rode into the Super Bowl sunset that season, hope in Dallas has continued to deflate as losses and injuries pile up.