Mike Greenberg, Louis Riddick call for Dallas Cowboys to trade Micah Parsons

Mike Greenberg, Louis Riddick and the ESPN Get Up crew are proposing a seismic shift for the Dallas Cowboys involving Micah Parsons.

After Monday’s demoralizing beatdown at the hands of the Houston Texans, the analysts believe it’s time for the Cowboys to enter a full-scale rebuild. How can they do that? By trading their star pass-rusher, of course.

“I have been making the point here, that in order to rebuild this team, which the Cowboys desperately need to do, they need to trade Micah Parsons,” Greenberg said. “I’ve in fact taken to calling him Herschel Parsons, because the Herschel Walker trade built a team in Dallas that, once upon a time, won three Super Bowl championships, and they might be able to do the one thing that could dig them out of this.

“This is not to denigrate Micah Parsons. He’s a great player. It’s actually to elevate him, and point out that you could get the king’s ransom you normally get for a quarterback by trading Micah Parsons.”

While Riddick might not have been on-board with the move a couple weeks ago, as the losses begin to pile up for Jerry Jones’ team, he believes Parsons could net Dallas the necessary capital to be able to change their future.

“At one time you probably should’ve ducked, but not anymore. I think there’s no question that Dallas needs draft capital. They need a plethora of players to come in here and really help build this football team back up,” Riddick added. “Trading away big time players is something that everyone kind of gets fascinated by, and I don’t have any issue with it, especially in this situation, but then it’s about who’s in charge of picking the next batch of players, and then who’s in charge of developing and implementing those players, within a bigger scheme. Quite honestly, that’s where teams end up getting the competitive edge. It’s who’s in charge of developing and making the strategy to utilize these players. That’s the issue with Dallas.

“I understand exactly what you’re getting at, and if you look at this football team last night, there’s no way you could say in your right mind that this team doesn’t need a total overhaul, in terms of upgrading the level of it’s talent, in particular on the defensive side. So, I’m with you there. I wouldn’t have been at one time, because you don’t trade away quarterbacks, pass rushers, franchise left tackles, corners or No. 1 wide receivers — those five positions. You don’t trade away those people very easily, or without taking into great consideration what it means. In this case, this team looks barren. It looks like it has no soul anymore. It needs to be rebuilt, from the inside-out.”

Trading Micah Parsons certainly wouldn’t be a popular move in Dallas, but it could be a necessary one to get the Cowboys back to the level they expect to perform at. Time will tell what the franchise decides to do, but there’s a lot that needs to be done before they can reach the top of the mountain once again.