Happy Tuesday everyone! Micah Parsons got traded to the Green Bay Packers, and Jerry Jones had this to say.¹ I won’t waste your time today telling you about how I don’t find this move shocking from Jerry, nor will I waste my time dunking on the Cowboys. I have already texted several people to satiate that desire. I also wrote about how Jerry is stupid already in Tidbits #4.² It feels like something I have already covered in a round about way. Truthfully, it also feels beneath me to make fun of a senile billionaire for being a racist penny pincher. However, Jerry did something that I find peculiar. He said some of my least favorite words!

“Obviously, we did think it was in the best interest- uhhhh – of our organization – uhhhhh not only the future but right now, this season uhhh as well” – Jerry Jones – August 28,2025

This quote comes from the press conference linked at the top (and bottom) of this article. This quote comes 20 seconds into an 11-minute interview with Jerry. He is astoundingly up front about it. Jerry is trying to justify the Micah Parsons trade the best way he knows how. Talk up the vision, speak to hope, and harken back to images of previous championships. The core of the problem is Jerry’s tacit admission he is making when he says Micah Parsons leaving is “in the best interest” of the Cowboys. He is admitting that, under his supervision, the Cowboys #1 priority is not winning football games.

            You can argue with me, you’d be wrong. You can scoff at me, you’d be foolish. You can insult me; you’d be wasting your time. The fact is; having one Micah Parsons equals one or more wins for your football team that season. The Cowboys got worse by trading him. Undoubtedly. They are looking down the barrel of missing the playoffs with no higher than the 10^th pick in the draft. They were potential playoff contenders. I ask you, dear reader, to consider this. What if the goal of the Dallas Cowboys, is not winning on the field, but on the balance sheet.

            That’s right folks, capitalism rears its ugly head again. “But Eric, a billionaire wouldn’t think of his profit incentives at the expense of their product, that’s insane! The only way billionaires get made is by hard work, being smart, and good products!” Sadly, this is untrue. A lie, even. Without other people’s labor and hard work, billionaires are husks of suits that post 4chan threads about how their wife won’t cook them dessert when she makes dinner. You don’t have to be smart to rip someone off, you just have to be cruel and take an opportunity some one else wouldn’t. It is not smart to tell someone they are worth less than they are, it is soulless and demeaning. Finally, you do not need good product to be a billionaire. You need popular product; there is a difference. In the world of the internet and marketing savvy, you just need to convince someone you are worth their time, not that you are the best.

            What is this best interest that Jerry is talking about then? What is the idea of “best interest” at all? The latter is a question that has plagued me for most of my life. Mostly because, it is an entirely relative concept. One of a philosophical backing, rather than a factual one. Thus, you can argue that this is in the best interest of the Cowboys. Like I did, this is in the best interest of the Cowboys financially. Jerry saves money on cap, and the team doesn’t have to pay future edge rushers as much because, “we did not pay Micah Parsons that so why would we pay you?” Best interest, is a concept of perspective. An exercise of how well you can put yourself in someone’s decision making shoes. You do not have to agree, you have to understand. Understanding the who, is essential to getting to the why. Fortunately for us, Jerry Jones has no shortages of public appearances to make his thoughts transparent to us. Therefore, my conclusion can be decisive and staunch in my belief that his number one priority is not winning football games. That his number one priority is making money.

I empathize with Cowboys fans here. When you have an organization (a team in this case) there is always going to be some decision that you do not think is in “our best interest”. You hope that it is cutting an old favorite player, you do not hope for this. This is damn near worst case. Yet, it is completely expected. When a narcissist sees himself, as a brand, a team, and a sole-decision maker, you as a fan become privy to the whims of a madman. A man whose bones are held together by greed and Scrooge McDuck levels of “ummms” is telling you, what is best. If I were a Cowboys fan, I would not support them until Jerry resigns as GM or dies. His level of hubris seems truly unmatchable but his stark incompetence wants to have a word. The core of this team with Parsons (and Dak healthy) made the playoffs 3 straight years. Yet, your “best interest” is not having a part of that core? Sure.

To be frank, I did not want to write about this at all. I hate the Cowboys and it is because of Jerry Jones. To me, the Cowboys are one of the worst parts of the NFL. Their existence is an afront to all things good in this world and Jerry Jones is the demonic driver of that organization. Giving him my time, and my energy, seems really pointless. There’s very little that I can say, write, or do to change anything going on in the Cowboys organization. You can call that nihilism, I consider it healthy pragmatism about what impact I may have in the world. Also, a healthy expectation I should hold myself to when I write things and how harshly I need to judge myself.

            Unfortunately, like I said, Jerry said some of my least favorite words: “best interest”. These words are deceiving. Not because they are inherently deceptive words but because of their context. In a vacuum, you and I can agree to many things being “of interest” or “important”. We can also come up with solutions to those problems. When you take those out of the vacuum and into reality, you’d then need to rank these solutions by priority. If it is just, you and I, we will most certainly have different priorities. Imagine if it was me and five people? Me and ten? The idea is, your best interest and my best interest, cannot always be the same. In fact, they will hardly ever be the same. To me, this is beneficial to us when used with good intention. Expression is humanity, and your ideas matter. Your ideas are derived from your experiences and I don’t have those same experiences. My best interest is not more important than yours and together we can have an agreed upon goal based on our interests. This is the joy of humanity. Finding people to work on things with from all walks of life. To give all of us something to share together. If even for just a moment, we all achieve something together before we continue on our journey alone.

            “Best interest” can be a very romantic idea. It can also be very nefarious. If I do assume my interest is more important than yours, but I convince you we are working towards the same goals, then I am deceiving you. Billionaires love to do this. It is taking advantage of someone’s good intentions to further one’s own selfish desires. It is prioritizing one’s personal journey over anything else. Knowing you are safe from the consequences everyone else will feel, and choosing your path for them. Capitalists obviously thrive off of this mindset. Cutthroat ideas or the abandonment of others, means more for me, right? It is a mindset that truly poisons your idea of others and dissolves your soul.

Hence why, this is fascinatingly harmful and disgusting to me. It is frustrating to know people who feign having “your best interest at heart”, and hearing a billionaire use the same line. It is justification for abuse. Calling yourself a Cowboys fan in 2025, is just admitting to NFL self-harm. As I said earlier, if you are a fan, you have every right to abandon this team. I think at this point, after the last 20 years and 20 seasons, you can walk away. I won’t judge you. You can tell people you were protecting your mental health; you would not be lying. You can tell people that you did not want to give Jerry Jones money; you would be an activist! You can tell people that you wanted to sign Micah Parsons; you would be expressing your best interest.

Sources:

1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DMbQZ6HHAE

2 – https://esirface.com/2025/08/20/tidbits-4-august-20-2025/