Indianapolis – Brian Schottenheimer is new in the role of the Dallas cowboys head coach. But the recently promoted Dallas coach is not new in the club and he is therefore not new in the talent that is Micah Parsons.
Schottenheimer called games in practice against the cutting edge rusher in the first round in 2021. He keeps this challenge in mind when he sails in an offseason in which Parsons is looking for his next contract.
“The advantage that we have to practice against him every day is that we see the problems he creates,” said Schottenheimer Thursday of the NFL screening combination. “Micah is a young elite football player who barely scratched the surface.”
On the one hand, Schottenheimer saw how cowboys reward local talent with lucrative extensions. Quarter Dak Prescott Reset the market with an extension of $ 60 million per year Last September, while the wide CEEEDEE receiver was ranked second among the non-quarter with A transaction with an average of $ 34 million per season.
On the other: the Prescott agreement was not done before the first day of the regular season, while the lamb prompted a holdout to a training camp.
Schottenheimer said that he had “open and honest” conversations with the Cowboys Office Front. Do these conversations include an honest assessment of the agreements often your cowboys?
“I think they understand it,” said Schottenheimer. “Look: the company of the NFL has become so large and once again, it is a double -meaning street. There are negotiations and sometimes these negotiations take time, (therefore) it is our work to focus on the guys who are there.
“It’s part of the business.”
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On the talent of Parsons, the Cowboys Brass and Schottenheimer agree. Parsons ran to 52.5 bags, 256 plated, nine forced escaped and 112 strokes since the cowboys resulted in 12th in the general classification in 2021. He ranked third in the league in the pass victory rate in 2024, according to ESPN Analytics, and first in 2023.
The finalization of an agreement will more reflect a cost conversation than the assessment of talents. Parsons has gone from the role of interior secondary that he played mainly in Penn State to a role mainly as a rusher of pass with a certain versatility and a disguise which include other responsibilities.
Edge Rushers and the receptors are historically the best paid non-qualities in the League. The Minnesota Vikings receiver, Justin Jefferson, is currently ordering the highest salary without a quarter with an agreement worth $ 35 million a year, but the leadership of the Bengals of Cincinnati said this week that they expected Ja’mar chase a more lucrative contract.
Consider Parsons in this same financial stratosphere.
Looking forward to teams, the swimming pool from which they will draw these contracts continues to ball.
The NFL announced that its salary ceiling was reaching a record of $ 279.2 million23.8 million dollars more than its figure of 2024.
The cowboys provide that the expansion of the defensive platforms OSA Odighta soon and will plan to extend the additional internal players who hit the free agency, including the Coin Half Jourdan Lewis.
After a Cowboys free agency calm last year, executive vice-president Stephen Jones said this week that he hoped to be “selectively aggressive” in the 2025 free agency agreements.
Schottenheimer said Stephen Jones and Director General / Owner Jerry Jones were aligned in their extension plans.
“We will always start with our guys,” said Schottenheimer. “We know them, right?” We have history with them. We have developed these guys. We understand their strengths, their weaknesses, which they bring to the table from the point of view of culture. So again, it all depends on how things are happening. It is a very competitive company.
“It’s a very competitive period of the year.”
