Micah Parsons’ relationship with the Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones came to a bitter and disappointing end when the team traded him to Green Bay last August. While the edge rusher said he has nothing to be mad about since he “went to another historic organization” that paid him “a historic amount,” Parsons does regret that contract negotiations became personal.
“I just wish some of those things never happened. You know what I mean?,” Parsons told Clarence Hill of All City DLLS Cowboys. “I wish that he never brought me into the office and just let the agent speak. And I wish he hadn’t compromised our relationship. I thought me and Jerry had a good relationship up to that point until this offseason, and it’s sad that it went to shit like that.”
Parsons’ relationship with Jones will never be the same, although Parsons claims he holds no animosity toward his former owner.
“I don’t know about Jerry, but I have no bad blood,” Parsons said. “If I saw Jerry today, I would shake hands with him and say thank you for the opportunity I had to be a Cowboy.”
While Parsons may have forgiven, he has not forgotten.
Jones thought they had a handshake deal on “term, amount, guarantees,” without Parsons’ agent present. Parsons eventually directed the Cowboys to deal directly with his agent, David Mulugheta. Parsons said that March 18 meeting was the last time he talked to Jones.
Parsons and Jones have feuded publicly since, with Jones insisting the Cowboys won the Aug. 28 trade.
“There’s only two people who know the real truth — me and Jerry Jones,” Parsons said. “I’m not mad or anything. I went to another historic organization. I got paid a historic amount. So I got really nothing to be mad about in this world.”
Parsons spent four seasons in Dallas and made four Pro Bowls and 52.5 sacks.
Packers Clips
The Packers have made it official with Jonathan Gannon, naming the former Cardinals head coach their defensive coordinator on Monday.
“We are thrilled to add Jonathan Gannon to our coaching staff. He possesses tremendous experience as an NFL coordinator and head coach,” head coach Matt LaFleur said in a statement released by the team. “I am confident that he will be an outstanding addition to our organization, as well as a strong leader of our defense. We welcome Jonathan, his wife, Gina, and their three children, Rocco, Lola, and Angelo, to the Packers and the Green Bay community.”
Gannon, 43, joins the Packers after three seasons with the Cardinals. Arizona went 15-36 in Gannon’s tenure.
Before that, Gannon was the Eagles’ defensive coordinator from 2021-2022. He had served as the Colts’ defensive backs coach from 2018-2020.
Gannon replaces Jeff Hafley, who was hired as Dolphins head coach last month.
The Dolphins have found a defensive coordinator for new head coach Jeff Hafley.
According to multiple reports, Miami is hiring Green Bay linebackers coach Sean Duggan for the role.
Duggan, 32, had worked under Hafley at Boston College as the team’s linebackers coach from 2020-2022 and was co-defensive coordinator in 2023.
When Hafley was hired as Green Bay’s defensive coordinator in 2024, Duggan came along as a defensive assistant. He was then promoted to linebackers coach in 2025.
Duggan played linebacker at Boston College and began his coaching career there as a graduate assistant in 2015. He also spent time with Hawaii, Mass, and Ohio State as an assistant coach.
Hafley has said that he will call Miami’s defensive plays in 2026.
The last head coaching vacancy has been filled.
The Cardinals are hiring Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur to be their next head coach, according to multiple reports.
LaFleur is set to have a five-year contract.
LaFleur — the younger brother of Packers head coach Matt LaFleur — had been with the Rams as OC since 2023. While he did not call plays for Los Angeles, as head coach Sean McVay performs that role, he did have a play-calling stint with the Jets from 2021-2022.
Mike LaFleur also spent plenty of time working under 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan. He was an offensive intern for the Browns in 2014 when Shanahan was the team’s offensive coordinator. He then followed Shanahan to the Falcons, serving as an offensive assistant while Shanahan was the club’s OC.
LaFleur became the 49ers’ passing game coordinator and receivers coach when Shanahan was hired as San Francisco’s head coach in 2017. He was the passing game coordinator from 2019-2020, following Robert Saleh to the Jets when he became the team’s head coach.
With the Cardinals selecting LaFleur, all 10 head coaching vacancies for the 2026 offseason have now been filled.
Mike and Matt LaFleur now also become the second pair of brothers as current head coaches, joining the Giants’ John Harbaugh and Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh.
Word came a couple of weeks ago that the Packers had agreed to a contract extension with head coach Matt LaFleur and that became official on Friday.
LaFleur’s future with the Packers was in some doubt as he headed into the final year of his deal off of the team’s loss to the Bears in the playoffs, but the two sides opted to move forward with discussions about a new contract. LaFleur is 76-40-1 in the regular season and 3-6 in the playoffs over seven seasons as the Packers coach.
General Manager Brian Gutekunst and executive vice president Russ Ball have also received new deals.
“We are excited to extend our commitment to Brian, Matt and Russ as the leaders of our football operations. Their steadfast dedication, passion and collaboration have remained constant in our drive to compete at the highest level,” Packers president and CEO Ed Policy said in a statement. “While we are all disappointed with the way this season ended, we remain aligned in purpose and have spent considerable time over the past weeks collaborating on a path forward. I am exceedingly confident we have the right people to achieve our goal. The entire Packers organization looks forward to supporting every effort to bring our community and fans another championship that they very much deserve.”
Gutekunst was hired as the GM at the same time as LaFleur and has worked for the Packers since 1999. Ball has spent 19 years with the organization.
The Bills and Packers both need a quarterbacks coach.
Each team is going to take a look at a candidate from the NFC West.
Per Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, Buffalo and Green Bay have put in a request to interview Arizona pass game specialist Connor Senger for the role.
Senger, 30, has been with the Cardinals since 2022, serving in a few different roles. He was promoted to passing game specialist for the 2025 season after being assistant quarterbacks coach in 2024.
While the Bills are filling out Joe Brady’s first staff as head coach, the Packers need a QBs coach after Sean Mannion departed the franchise to become the Eagles offensive coordinator this week.
Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy will be bringing one of his Green Bay assistants with him to Pittsburgh.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that James Campen will be hired as the team’s offensive line coach.
Campen played for the Packers from 1989-1993 and joined their staff in 2004. McCarthy was hired as their head coach in 2006 and Campen coached the offensive line through the 2018 season.
Campen moved on to the Browns, Chargers, Texans and Panthers before leaving the coaching ranks after the 2023 season. He has most recently been working in a scouting role for the Packers.
The Eagles have filled the job that seemingly no one wanted.
Via Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, Packers quarterbacks coach Sean Mannion will become the Eagles’ new offensive coordinator.
Mannion played quaterback in the NFL from 2015 through 2023. He entered the league as a third-round pick of the Rams.
Hired by the Packers in 2024, Mannion went from offensive assistant to quarterbacks coach in 2025.
Now, at age 33, Mannion steps into one of the most important positions in the league. And the one with the highest risk and biggest reward.
Of the last four Eagles offensive coordinators, two became head coaches after one year (Shane Steichen, Kellen Moore) — and two were fired after one year (Brian Johnson, Kevin Patullo).
The key for Mannion will be quarterback Jalen Hurts. The best approach will be to design and implement an offense that Hurts likes, with plays he wants to run and concepts he wants to execute. Even if that means starting from scratch to design a new playbook.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni previously was an offensive coordinator. Unlike other offensive specialists, Sirianni has delegated much of the offense (some would say too much) to his coordinator.
Regardless, the Eagles finally have a new one coordinator. And Mannion has the biggest opportunity of his coaching career, only two years into it.
The Steelers are looking to bring in another assistant new head coach Mike McCarthy has plenty of familiarity with.
Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Pittsburgh plans to interview New Orleans quarterbacks coach Scott Tolzien for its offensive coordinator vacancy.
Tolzien, 38, played under McCarthy as a backup quarterback for the Packers from 2013-2015. Tolzien then coached under McCarthy with the Cowboys from 2020-2024, first as a coaching assistant and then as the team’s QBs coach for his last two seasons there.
In 2025, Tolzien worked with rookie Tyler Shough, helping him finish the season having completed 67.6 percent of his passes for 2,384 yards with 10 touchdowns and six interceptions in 11 games with nine starts.
The Packers are hiring Bobby Babich as their defensive pass game coordinator/secondary, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports.
Babich joins Jonathan Gannon’s staff after two seasons as the Bills’ defensive coordinator.
He joined the Bills’ staff in 2017 as the assistant defensive backs coach and worked his way up the ladder.
Babich began his NFL coaching career with the Panthers (2011-12) and spent three seasons with the Browns.
The Bills ranked seventh in yards allowed and 12th in points allowed in 2025 under Babich.
