Cowboys CEO and co-owner Stephen Jones briefly updated where negotiations stand last weekend with a comment that was quickly circulated and portrayed as the ball being in Parsons' court. "We want to pay Micah, too. He's gotta want to be paid," Jones said via The Athletic's Jon Machota.

Micah is entering the fifth-year option on his rookie deal, paying him $24 million (“An easy $20 million sitting at practice…” as Jerry Jones has said), but his contract-related hold in is continuing to nag at the Cowboys faithful pleading for something to change.

The latest update from ESPN's Adam Schefter is particularly concerning. Schefter said that the Cowboys and Parsons are "further away from a deal in late July, early August than (they) were in late March, early April." Schefter then summed things up in a way that definitely has Dallas fans concerned.