Listen. There’s no right or wrong answers in this one. 100% merit to both sides of these arguments. You’ve heard me and also seen me list the numbers of players we could have with cumulative capital spent on a trade like this. I jumped on Chicago for doing this almost exactly same time of season 9/1/2018 So I fully understand the fiscal concern argument. Although they did go from 4th in Division to
#1 at 12-4 that year, then 3rd in 2019, 2nd in 2020. However they STARTED at 5-11 when they traded. Here’s my contention on the tie breaker on this decision and I said this prior to Jeremiah.
Daniel Jeremiah just said this in an interview I saw this morning and He’s not a Packer fan that I know of or does he concern himself with our debate. He’s objectively looking at it from BOTH cowboys and Packers sided.
He said for GM one of the most important criteria is knowing WHEN to make a push. Such as some teams are in complete rebuild or partial rebuild and Parsons trade would NOT be a good trade off. Some are in decline. Some teams are 1 maybe 2 true BLUE chip players from morphing into Elite level. He all but said this was Green Bay.
Our #1 weakness was our overall pass rush productivity. While we do have ascending players like LVN or Cox or Cooper, they aren’t deemed far enough along to wager a strong bet that they will shoot up the pass rush meter rather. One ranking I saw was GB was at 29th in pass rush and Rashan Gary didn’t break the top 40?? That’s an issue most would agree. Somewhere we got involved and still tied for #8 in sacks, but overall we were desperately needing to improve on D in that regard in order to compete with Eagles, Detroit etc. Brian was speculated to have reached out to multiple teams for attempts at a trade at DE. It just so happened we got lucky. Parsons hadn’t signed yet. Voila. Pass Rush solved. Just outside of GB understand the magnitude of this move, it’s just we’re hesitant inside to enjoy the ride (because it’s our wallet).
A look at the top pass rushing duos in the NFL after the Cowboys traded Micah Parsons to the Packers.
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