Listening to the chatter, the Dallas Cowboys believe Micah Parsons will play in Week 1. But Stephen A. Smith said he shouldn’t do it without a deal in place. Furthermore, an NFL insider is not expecting a Parsons “Hail Mary” in terms of signing a new deal , according to ESPN’s Dan Graziano.

“What I'm hearing: Parsons continues to sit out practices as he awaits a contract extension, but this situation has gone sideways,” Graziano wrote. “Team owner and GM Jerry Jones believes he and Parsons agreed on the parameters of a deal back in the spring and that the deal changed materially once Parsons got his agent involved.

“Parsons, meanwhile, believes it's Jones who is to blame; that the owner should have always anticipated that he'd be dealing with the agent. Parsons has demanded a trade

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