Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones said he had spoken to Micah Parsons about parameters on an extension and they are in agreement on “most of the issues.according to David Moore of the Dallas Morning News.

In true Jerry Jones fashion, he managed to start a bit of a firestorm by admitting that not only had he not talked to Parsons’ agent, he didn’t even know his name. ”I’m the one who has to write the check and Micah is the one who has to agree to it,” Jones told David Moore. “That’s the straightest way to get there.”

Parsons then used X: The Everything App to say that he would not be doing any deal without agent David Mulugheta and that there “will be no backdoors in this contract negotiation.” So, you know, another day as usual for the Cowboys. They could have sewn up this Parsons deal months (or even a year ago), but that would have been too competent.