Troy Aikman Questions Jerry Jones’s Claim That The Cowboys Made A Trade

Jerry Jones and Stephen A. Smith had a large time together. The ESPN big sat successful Jones's suite astatine AT&T Stadium during Monday Night Football until things sewage awkward and it became evident nan Cowboys were going to person 1 of those nights and he quickly bounced.

Earlier successful nan day, Jones appeared connected Smith's Sirius XM power show and claimed that nan Cowboys had already made a waste and acquisition up of nan deadline. Via ESPN:

"We surely person made a trade, and we whitethorn make a mates much trades earlier that deadline," Jones told Smith. "We've made one. We perchance could make 2 more, and I'm going to hold and fto you publication astir that erstwhile we nonstop nan papers successful tomorrow."

Despite what Jones said, nary woody aliases deals were announced by nan clip ESPN's pregame show started. That's erstwhile erstwhile Cowboys backmost Troy Aikman seemed to definitive uncertainty that location was really a woody done.

"Do I deliberation Micah Parsons would person made a difference? Absolutely," said Aikman. "Now, would that alteration their grounds that much? I don't know. He is simply a quality maker, but those guys aren't typically disposable truthful one don't cognize that they tin bring successful personification for illustration him. I don't cognize what that move is. I don't cognize who it mightiness be. I deliberation it's absorbing that you denote there's a trade, but you're not gonna denote who it is. You know. What do they person to springiness up and what precisely does that look like? I conjecture we'll each beryllium evaluating that tomorrow sometime."

As of halftime of nan Cowboys crippled against nan Cardinals, nary specifications astir immoderate benignant of waste and acquisition person surfaced.

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