Contained in the Cowboys’ determination to commerce Micah Parsons

Extra reporting by Todd Archer, Rob Demovsky, Dan Graziano and Seth Wickersham

THE PIVOTAL MEETING that led to probably the most stunning NFL trades of the previous decade occurred on a nice North Texas morning in mid-March, 5 months and a lifetime of in poor health emotions forward of any deal being put to paper.

The agenda for the March 18 one-on-one in Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones’ workplace at The Star, the group’s headquarters in Frisco, Texas, between Jones and two-time first-team All-Professional move rusher Micah Parsons stays in query. A supply near Jones says it was Parsons who requested for the assembly, and that the 82-year-old proprietor at all times understood the topic to be Parsons’ contract. After declaring in February 2024 that he wished to be a Cowboy “for all times,” Parsons had been making an attempt to succeed in an extension with the group, with out success.

“Jerry and Micah had met periodically during the last 4 years to debate enterprise and management points,” the supply mentioned, noting that the then-25-year-old Parsons seen Jones as a mentor. “Jerry liked having these discussions with Micah. However the assembly in March wasn’t that, regardless of Micah saying publicly later it was to debate management. Micah informed Jerry, ‘I need to are available in and talk about the place we’re,’ which means a contract extension. In order that was Jerry’s expectation.”

A supply near Parsons mentioned that is “completely not” true and that Jones referred to as Parsons in for a management assembly, solely to steer the dialog towards contract talks. The supply says Parsons directed Jones to speak particulars along with his agent, David Mulugheta. Nevertheless the dialog received to a contract extension, each events acknowledge that it received there.

Over a three-hour assembly, Jones and Parsons mentioned numbers, years and assured cash. Either side anticipated to reset the marketplace for edge rushers, topping the $40 million common per season and $123.5 million assured that Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns had acquired 9 days earlier. Parsons’ 52.5 sacks in his profession are the fifth most in a participant’s first 4 seasons. Jones mentioned after Parsons left his workplace at The Star, the proprietor believed an settlement was executed.

Later the identical day, Parsons referred to as Cowboys chief working officer and co-owner Stephen Jones, Jerry’s son, in an try and get more cash out of the deal, the supply informed ESPN.

“[Parsons] referred to as Stephen and requested can we do that, can we alter the numbers and up the assure,” the supply mentioned. “He began negotiating. He requested for a number of totally different parts and will increase. This grew to become a negotiation that Micah was in control of.”

Stephen Jones consulted along with his father, and Jerry agreed to the sweetened phrases. The Cowboys believed they’d a deal in place with Parsons and would proceed to insist that he had agreed to it. Although the precise phrases aren’t identified, Cowboys sources insist they provided extra assured cash than the $136 million Parsons would get from Inexperienced Bay, albeit unfold throughout a five-year extension, not the four-year extension the Packers would make.

“It was north of $150 million,” the supply mentioned.

The Cowboys had been identified to conduct contract talks with out gamers’ brokers current — a apply identified across the league as “hotboxing.” Dak Prescott’s 2024 deal was one such negotiation, whereby the Joneses and the quarterback mentioned Prescott’s place throughout the group’s future and Prescott’s agent, Todd France, got here in later to barter the finer particulars of a contract. (“I by no means engaged in numbers,” Prescott mentioned.) The deal was finally signed the day of Dallas’ first recreation of the season. If the Cowboys anticipated this negotiation to comply with the identical path, Mulugheta was about to confront them with a counterpoint.

Jones would say in August on Michael Irvin’s podcast, “We had been going to ship [the terms] over to the agent and the agent mentioned do not trouble as a result of we have got all that to barter.”

To today, Parsons’ company has by no means seen the ultimate particulars or construction of the deal that Jones mentioned he minimize with Parsons in April, per a supply near Parsons. Jones and Mulugheta would by no means actually negotiate at any level. Dallas would merely say the deal is finished; Parsons can have it if he needs it. (Mulugheta declined to remark for this story).

“I am the one who has to signal the test and Micah is the one who has to conform to it,” Jones mentioned on April 1 on the NFL homeowners’ spring assembly in Palm Seashore, Fla. “That is the straightest approach to get there, is the one who writes the test and the one who’s agreeing to it speaking.”

The Jones supply says he had nothing in opposition to Mulugheta, although Jones insisted to reporters in Palm Seashore that he did not know Mulugheta’s title, including, “The agent is just not an element right here, or one thing to fret about.” At that time, Jones was dug in as a result of “Micah appeared him in his eyes and mentioned we’ve got a deal.” The supply relayed a sense from Jones of, “Oh in order that’s how they’re going to do it. Micah goes to barter with us, we’ll go up, we’ll have an settlement, after which the agent says that is the ground and we’ll go from there?”

“Jerry was like, ‘Hell no. That is not the best way that is going to work.'”

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WITH THE PARSONS scenario seemingly at an deadlock, the Cowboys readied themselves for the 2025 NFL draft in late April. Parsons’ future with the group was not a difficulty burdened by draft pundits or armchair analysts, most of whom had Dallas choosing a large receiver with the No. 12 decide. The Cowboys would fill a unique want by taking guard Tyler Booker, then in early Might getting their receiver by making a commerce with the Pittsburgh Steelers to acquire mercurial wideout George Pickens.

The good thing about hindsight suggests Dallas’ second-round choice had better which means than believed on the time, although a Cowboys supply mentioned the Parsons matter didn’t have an effect on their draft board. Edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku, chosen with the No. 44 decide, got here off a season through which he led the FBS with 62 quarterback pressures and had 16.5 sacks. These in search of subtext behind the Ezeiruaku decide principally famous that edge rushers Dante Fowler Jr. (signed on a one-year deal in March — the Packers had been believed by league sources to be runners-up for his providers) and Sam Williams had been heading into contract years, and that the rookie may assist guarantee the long run. Much less significant to observers was the truth that Parsons was headed right into a contract 12 months too.

Though Jones would later say the group started discussing the concept of a Parsons commerce within the spring, Dallas didn’t discover commerce talks involving Parsons earlier than the draft, per a Cowboys group supply. For one, the contract negotiations had been nonetheless contemporary and the group harbored hope of Parsons accepting the beforehand mentioned deal. The Cowboys additionally desire to do trades postdraft once they consider different groups are much less inclined to cling to personnel. The Pickens deal strengthened that philosophy.

However the longer Parsons went with out a contract, the much less probably he and Mulugheta had been to just accept the phrases Jones believed had been agreed upon in March — the sting rusher market had begun to skyrocket. Within the weeks earlier than the Jones/Parsons summit on the Cowboys apply facility, the Las Vegas Raiders’ Maxx Crosby (three years, $106.5 million, $91.5 million assured) and Browns’ Garrett ($40 million per 12 months and $123.5 million assured) had inked new offers. By mid-July, the Steelers’ T.J. Watt would signal a three-year, $123 million extension that established him because the league’s highest-paid nonquarterback on a median wage per 12 months foundation.

Sources near Parsons believed that he, greater than three years youthful than Garrett and 5 years youthful than Watt, would blow these offers away. And a Cowboys supply mentioned the group received indications that it will desire to “go final” within the pass-rush market, as a result of costs had been solely rising.

As Jones watched the market spike round him, the Cowboys proprietor and GM grew more and more snug letting Parsons play on his fifth-year possibility or buying and selling him.

Balancing the price of the complete roster was a think about Dallas’ calculus. Just one group — the Cincinnati Bengals — has three gamers making at the least $30 million per 12 months. If the Cowboys had given Parsons greater than $40 million yearly, they might have had the league’s highest-paid defender, highest-paid quarterback in Prescott ($60 million per 12 months) and one of many highest-paid huge receivers in CeeDee Lamb ($34 million).

If the Cowboys weren’t paying Parsons, it will make negotiating with in-house stars, most notably guard Tyler Smith and cornerback DaRon Bland, a better proposition. Smith, a 2022 first-round decide, may get his extension after 12 months 3 in a approach Parsons didn’t. Bland was signed to a four-year, $92 million extension on Sunday.

“It is an allocation of cash,” Jones mentioned the night time the commerce was accomplished. “So, we selected to have numbers of gamers that we may pay handsomely that will be these caliber of gamers, not younger apply squad gamers. We’re speaking gamers that may actually compete.”

And whereas Parsons’ presence within the lineup was inconceivable to duplicate — by anticipated factors added per play from 2021 via 2024, the Cowboys had been the NFL’s finest protection with Parsons on the sector and the league’s worst by the identical metric when he was not — Dallas additionally believed there have been instances when his abilities had been counterproductive to the successful trigger. Parsons ranked 68th amongst edge rushers in cease charge in opposition to the run and 81st in yards per run cease final season, in response to the FTN Soccer Almanac.

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“For Jerry, it got here again to we’ve got received to have the ability to cease the run,” the supply near Jones mentioned. “Micah doesn’t try this. Actually, as a result of we could not cease the run, it made Micah much less efficient. Then they are going to run proper at him, and that is not what he does. We couldn’t care for mission vital.”

Nonetheless, the Cowboys had been getting ready as if Parsons could be within the lineup in 2025. They understood how troublesome it will be to commerce him, regardless that a group supply mentioned they had been unconcerned concerning the public relations fallout the group would face given his recognition with followers. This was a enterprise and personnel consideration solely, and the Joneses’ perception that the value must be two first-round picks and a longtime defensive participant was crystallized because the return a few week out from the commerce, per a group supply.

The final star move rusher traded on his rookie contract — additionally proper earlier than the beginning of the season — was Khalil Mack in 2018. The Chicago Bears despatched two-first-round picks to the then-Oakland Raiders to accumulate him; Mack had 40.5 sacks via 4 seasons, 12.5 fewer than Parsons over the identical time-frame. Packers normal supervisor Brian Gutekunst, in his first season in cost on the time, had a comparable provide to the Raiders turned down, an expertise which may have helped get the deal for Parsons over the road.

“I feel what I realized from [the Mack] expertise is you have to be in it early,” Gutekunst mentioned Friday.

Solely every week out from the beginning of the common season, there merely would not be many commerce suitors keen to pay that freight, particularly once they must negotiate a market-shattering new contract with Parsons on high of the draft and personnel capital they might be expending.

In the meantime, Parsons himself had remained across the group, displaying as much as a crawfish boil and paintball outing throughout the first two days of the offseason program in April as a acknowledged present of management and help for brand spanking new coach Brian Schottenheimer. In June, Parsons informed reporters he would attend coaching camp, although a hold-in started to emerge as a possible proposition absent a brand new deal.

“Once you go across the league and also you see these different groups taking good care of their finest guys, I seen T.J. [Watt] gotten taken care of. Maxx [Crosby] received taken care of. Myles [Garrett] received taken care of, [and] he is received two years left on his deal,” Parsons mentioned on July 22, the day after coaching camp started. “You see lots of people across the league taken care of, and you would like you had that very same kind of vitality.”

There was stress, however the relationship between Parsons and the Cowboys was effervescent at a low simmer. Virtually with out warning, it will boil over.

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IN AN ERA when statements from well-known athletes are stage-managed inside an inch of their lives by participant brokers and groups of publicists, this gave the looks of one thing totally different.

At 1:16 p.m. CT on Friday, Aug. 1, Parsons transmitted three pages of single-spaced textual content from his iPhone’s Notes app to X, laying out chapter and verse of his discontent with the Cowboys. He revealed his perspective on the March assembly with Jones, the parameters of the contract settlement that he mentioned he believed had been a place to begin and the Cowboys thought represented an settlement, and capped all of it off with a commerce demand.

“Sadly I now not need to be right here,” Parsons wrote. “I now not need to be held to shut door negotiations with out my agent current. I now not need photographs taken at me for getting injured whereas laying it on the road for the group our followers and my teammates. I now not need narratives created and unfold to the media about me. I had purposely stayed quiet in hopes of getting one thing executed.”

The quiet had been interrupted, although it had been Jerry Jones who had damaged the silence earlier in camp with an indictment of Parsons’ sturdiness and availability.

“Simply because we signal him doesn’t suggest we’ll have him,” Jones mentioned. “He was harm six video games final 12 months [actually four]. Severely. I bear in mind signing a participant for the highest-paid on the place within the league and he received knocked out two-thirds of the 12 months in Dak Prescott. So, there’s a whole lot of issues you’ll be able to take into consideration, simply because the participant does, if you’re desirous about committing and guaranteeing cash.”

Parsons had missed just one recreation over his first three seasons within the league.

The “repeated photographs” Parsons cited continued when Jones was requested to answer the “Pay Micah” chants the proprietor was serenaded with by followers at camp.

“I heard it gentle, however not in comparison with how I heard them say, ‘Pay Lamb’ [last year],” Jones mentioned a day later. “That was a faint little sound in comparison with the best way they had been hollering final 12 months, ‘Pay Lamb.’ … Whoever’s not in, you’ll be able to rely on a couple of hollering that. But it surely was an enormous loud chant final 12 months on Lamb.”

Stephen Jones would additional worsen Parsons by commenting, “We need to pay Micah too, he is received to need to be paid.”

Amid the pettiness and harm emotions, Parsons continued to point out up — a supply near Parsons mentioned Mulugheta does not see the worth in gamers getting fined and suggested him to be current — albeit whereas citing again tightness as the rationale he wasn’t practising. Parsons had an MRI on his again in late August that got here again clear, in response to Schottenheimer, and was cleared by Cowboys medical doctors to apply.

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He continued to take part in walk-throughs and conferences but additionally exhibited unusual conduct together with not carrying his apply jersey, or on one other day carrying it round his neck, and coming to apply with out footwear. Earlier than the group’s preseason finale in opposition to the Falcons, Parsons ate nachos as he walked to the locker room, and most memorably lay on a medical desk throughout the recreation and appeared to shut his eyes. The picture went viral.

“[Cowboys pass-rushing legend] Charles Haley would have flipped him off the rattling desk if he noticed that,” a group supply mentioned.

Parsons’ conduct throughout camp rubbed many within the constructing, together with within the locker room, the improper approach, with one group supply saying his vitality was “deflating.” However a group supply famous that Parsons stayed engaged in conferences and performed his personal two-a-days — one carry, one working session per workday. “I believed he was doing every part he may to be prepared for Philly (Week 1),” the supply mentioned.

This encapsulates the Parsons expertise to sources within the constructing over his four-year tenure. A number of sources mentioned he wasn’t essentially the most diligent within the weight room or in getting remedy, although others thought of him a tough employee who improved his communication abilities with coaches and gamers however whose decision-making was generally in query. One instance was Parsons’ outspokenness on his podcast, which rankled some teammates. The entrance workplace and coaches did not have a serious downside with it. However teammate Malik Hooker made his points identified publicly final 12 months. As one group supply put it, Parsons was identified to be vital, generally out of ardour for the sport, however coaches would urge him to contemplate that “you’ll be able to’t name guys out who haven’t got your capability,” and studying how one can lead and “convey others together with you” is essential. That half was thought of a course of for him.

Amid the turmoil, there have been many within the recreation who believed a détente would finally be reached. A number of group sources believed Parsons was honest in his acknowledged need to retire a Cowboy, noting that he not too long ago constructed a house within the space. “I feel he felt he was going to play out his profession there,” a supply mentioned. Jerry Jones’ personal phrases had been one other main motive why the matter appeared resolvable.

“Any discuss of buying and selling is B.S.,” Jones mentioned on the “Stephen A. Smith Present” on Aug. 22 at the same time as a group president who is aware of the Cowboys operation nicely informed ESPN that in his discussions with them in August, it was clear that Dallas was ready to maneuver Parsons.

“After all Jerry gave a head faux to the media,” a supply near Jones mentioned. “It’s important to exit and say we aren’t inquisitive about buying and selling him. For those who say you might be buying and selling him, you do not get s—.” Jones would acknowledge to reporters after Parsons was traded that this had been a purposeful tactic.

Amid the drama across the contract and different lesser points together with Parsons’ apply habits among the many ache factors, the Joneses had seen sufficient. The Cowboys informed the group president that they liked the participant, however not the particular person. That they had made up their minds. Now they only wanted a commerce associate.

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TWO DAYS BEFORE Parsons grew to become a Packer, the move rusher’s representatives made one last-ditch effort with the Cowboys — within the type of an e-mail. The notice from Mulugheta to Jerry and Stephen Jones, as one supply who seen the correspondence remembers, acknowledged that a whole lot of issues had been mentioned within the media, maybe some miscommunications alongside the best way, however regardless of all of that, Parsons was nonetheless keen to do a deal that will hold him in Dallas. The letter mentioned Parsons’ representatives had been keen to come back to Dallas, soar on a video name, no matter it took to doubtlessly hammer one thing out.

Jerry Jones responded to the message, saying the Cowboys had been prepping a commerce and if Parsons wished to play in Dallas in 2025, he would have to take action on his fifth-year possibility. Parsons would change into a free agent in 2026, however the group may additionally use the franchise tag to stop his departure at that time. Parsons must determine his subsequent transfer if the Cowboys could not commerce him, although a supply near him notes that Parsons by no means threatened to carry out and if wholesome, he would have performed on the choice.

Issues accelerated from there. The Packers, given permission to talk to Mulugheta by the Cowboys, made their first formal contract provide to Parsons on Tuesday. Inexperienced Bay had parameters of a commerce hammered out that matched Dallas’ phrases: Two first-round picks and veteran defensive sort out Kenny Clark would go to the Cowboys in change for Parsons. Clark, a staple of the Packers protection since coming into the league in 2016, was hardly a throw-in. His contract was engaging — Inexperienced Bay had already paid him the majority of his 2025 deal, so the Cowboys would pay him simply $2 million this season, and $20 million unguaranteed subsequent season. A two-year, $22 million deal for a high-level participant was seen as a win for a Dallas group that sees the 29-year-old Clark as a multiyear resolution, and there would even be no useless cash if the Cowboys selected to launch him after the season.

“From our perspective, it needed to embody Kenny Clark,” a supply near Jones mentioned. “The one approach it labored for us, we’d like one thing that helps us now and helps us sooner or later.”

That Inexperienced Bay — the opponent that had knocked three of the perfect Cowboys groups of the previous 11 years (2014, 2016, 2023) out of the playoffs — was the commerce associate was apparently not a deterrent to getting the deal executed.

As for Parsons’ new contract, whereas the Cowboys had been unwilling to take care of Mulugheta, the agent’s communication with the Packers was easy, in response to a supply near Parsons. Previous offers for shoppers Jordan Love and Xavier McKinney provided familiarity between the events, so hammering out an settlement took a while however was not painful in response to the supply. Had the deal fallen aside, at the least three different groups had been , and the Cowboys wouldn’t have traded Parsons throughout the division. One group informed ESPN it wasn’t as a result of it felt the value was too excessive for a participant who may change into a headache. One other believed Dallas would not commerce Parsons till subsequent spring and indicated they could be then.

Inexperienced Bay knew the deal could be expensive and did not combat that actuality, with a supply acquainted with negotiations saying the contract was “clear and quick,” for essentially the most half. The transfer to a deal gained steam within the hour or so earlier than 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, as soon as Mulugheta had laid out the commerce phrases and Parsons had signed off. Parsons’ four-year, $188 million deal included $120 million totally assured at signing and $136 million in whole ensures, making him the highest-paid nonquarterback in NFL historical past.

The Packers have reached the playoffs 5 instances in seven seasons beneath Gutekunst however haven’t made a Tremendous Bowl throughout that point. Lower than a 12 months after Gutekunst was promoted to GM in 2018, then-team president Mark Murphy fired Mike McCarthy as coach with 4 video games left in that season. In 2019, Murphy employed Matt LaFleur, who took Inexperienced Bay to 2 straight NFC title video games, however the group hasn’t been again since. Each Gutekunst and LaFleur are beneath contract via the 2026 season, and each report back to new group president Ed Coverage, who took over in July after Murphy retired.

A number of Packers sources mentioned Gutekunst thought all alongside a commerce for Parsons was an extended shot. He thought that when push got here to shove, Jerry Jones wouldn’t half methods with a star participant within the prime of his profession — an concept Gutekunst confirmed Friday in Parsons’ unveiling in Inexperienced Bay.

“The possibilities of this stuff [blockbuster trades] occurring are fairly slim, and I feel that was my mindset the entire time, was hold the conversations going due to the individuality of the participant,” Gutekunst mentioned. “However I do not assume it was actually till the previous couple of days that I really thought, ‘Hey, there’s a chance right here to shut this factor out.'”

When doing their homework on Parsons, Gutekunst and the Packers reached out to those who had labored with, performed with or coached Parsons in faculty and in Dallas.

He would not title names, however league sources mentioned Gutekunst and McCarthy, who coached the Packers from 2006 to 2018 and Cowboys from 2020 to 2024, maintained relationship. Parsons and McCarthy had a stable connection — the sting rusher mentioned in January that Dallas’ determination to half methods along with his former coach was “devastating.”

One Packers supply mentioned the potential for touchdown Parsons began to really feel actual a few week earlier than the deal, which strains up with Dallas’ timeline of when the Cowboys received critical.

By late afternoon Thursday, LaFleur spoke straight with Parsons about their new partnership, along with his assistant coaches coming out and in of LaFleur’s workplace to high-five and have a good time.

As to which group received the higher finish of the deal, opinions assorted, although essentially the most forceful response got here within the type of criticism leveled on the polarizing Jerry Jones. Two NFL executives questioned why the Cowboys did not get extra in return after the commerce went down.

“Very dangerous for Dallas in that they acquired little compensation compared to different famous person prime trades,” a separate NFC government mentioned. “It is OK for Inexperienced Bay in that their pursuits are to get past the primary or second spherical. I feel [Parsons is] a really productive common season participant. I feel when groups begin working heavy within the playoffs, he turns into much less scary.”

In a information convention following the commerce, one through which Jerry Jones repeatedly referred to Parsons as “Michael,” the proprietor justified the transfer.

“It takes a couple of [player to win a championship] and so that you do need to allocate your assets, whether or not or not it’s draft picks or whether or not or not it’s funds, you need to allocate these assets,” Jones mentioned. “There was no query in our thoughts that [Micah] may convey us a whole lot of assets on a commerce.”

As Jones took warmth for the deal in some corners, others within the league had been extra conciliatory towards Dallas, particularly when noting the elevated wage cap flexibility and the way it may influence the Cowboys’ negotiations with different core gamers.

“[Filling a] DT want and two 1s is an effective haul, truthfully,” an AFC government mentioned. “Plus, not paying one other max contract. That is an enormous a part of this.”

The Joneses expressed a perception that they might find yourself with one other three to 5 gamers out of the deal, along with taking good care of Smith and Bland.

The tip of the Parsons period in Dallas, maybe fittingly, got here within the type of one other tweet — this one a farewell. Whereas expressing his appreciation to Cowboys followers and vowing that North Texas would proceed to be his offseason dwelling, Parsons acknowledged the fractious negotiations that had reached a tipping level with that much-debated assembly with Jerry Jones.

“I by no means wished this chapter to finish, however not every part was in my management. My coronary heart has at all times been right here, and it nonetheless is. By way of all of it, I by no means made any calls for,” Parsons mentioned, not acknowledging his commerce request. “I by no means requested for something greater than equity. I solely requested that the particular person I belief to barter my contract be a part of the method.”

Parsons made his first look in Inexperienced Bay the following day, assembly the native media and expressing reduction at his scenario’s decision. He dismissed his again downside — revealed on Monday to be an L4/L5 aspect joint sprain for which the Cowboys had prescribed a five-day plan of an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid and a bodily remedy program — as one thing that will be a serious concern, reinforcing the idea that his contract, not well being, was on the core of his restricted summer time participation. Parsons practiced with the Packers on Monday.

“I feel bodily, , I am nice,” Parsons mentioned. “I feel I can contribute loads. I’ll group up with the medical doctors in making a plan. We already talked about how we are able to ramp issues up and get me right into a circulation the place they really feel snug and I really feel snug.”

Parsons will return to Dallas along with his new group on Sept. 28, for a Sunday night time, Week 4 showdown in opposition to the Cowboys. His last look at AT&T Stadium as a Cowboy can be remembered for the sight of Parsons splayed throughout a coaching desk. His subsequent one, carrying a Packers uniform, figures to revive the imaginative and prescient of how Parsons grew to become one of many elite defensive gamers of his era within the first place. Parsons himself famous the stakes of what comes subsequent.

“They did not hand over what they gave up for me to take a seat on the sidelines.”