austin heil

Listen, the Cowboys internally had whispered the idea of trading Micah 2 seasons ago. I was told Jerry was absolutely against it. Why? Micah would rub teammates the wrong way with the podcast comments at times, saying he was a leader then not showing it at times and as one coach told me “nearly every player was in my office telling us we needed to do something about him” I do think Micah turned some of that around in recent months. Could it be contract motivated or maturity? Who knows. But if FO was gonna trade him the time was 2 years ago pre draft when the haul would have been massive. I think there is an element of shock here bc Micah knows he’s elite at his position and believes he should have been first in line to get a deal done. One could argue players have been far more problematic in the past and gotten deals done. When this “imminent contract” was floated in the spring was reported I put cold water on it bc you have to have the agent involved and then Jerry escalated things with his thoughts on his agent etc. both sides have a mirror to look into here IMO. Micah’s personality and fearlessness to speak his mind has been rare as most guys might have said a thing or two but chose largely not to talk. I still believe the deal gets done. Micah has a year left and won’t want to not be on the field and Jerry isn’t gonna wanna let one of his best players just sit nor create a locker room situation as players are currently rallying around Micah. My meter is not moved here. This is Dallas. But it shouldn’t have even gotten to this point