A top-10 player in the NFL becoming available via trade almost never happens; talents of that caliber are usually treated as franchise cornerstones by their respective teams and treated as such from a contractual perspective. That is precisely what made the Micah Parsons situation so fascinating.

One of the best players in football, the Dallas Cowboys decided to move on from him rather than give him the contract extension he desired and deserved. And so, Parsons ended up as a Packer last week; Green Bay gave up a pair of first-round draft picks plus defensive tackle Kenny Clark to bring him in.

On paper, that looks like a package the New England Patriots also might have been able to come up with in order to acquire Parsons. However, as head coach Mike Vrabel explained, the idea of going

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