Inside the Cowboys’ decision to trade Micah Parsons

further reporting by Todd Archer, Rob Demovsky, Dan Graziano and Seth Wickersham

THE PIVOTAL MEETING that led to one of many most shocking NFL trades of the previous decade occurred on a nice North Texas morning in mid-March, 5 months and a lifetime of sick emotions forward of any deal being put to paper.

The agenda for the March 18 one-on-one in Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones’ workplace at The Star, the staff’s headquarters in Frisco, Texas, between Jones and two-time first-team All-Professional move rusher Micah Parsons stays in query. A supply near Jones says it was Parsons who requested for the assembly, and that the 82-year-old proprietor at all times understood the topic to be Parsons’ contract. After declaring in February 2024 that he needed to be a Cowboy “for all times,” Parsons had been making an attempt to succeed in an extension with the staff, with out success.

“Jerry and Micah had met periodically over the past 4 years to debate enterprise and management points,” the supply mentioned, noting that the then-25-year-old Parsons considered Jones as a mentor. “Jerry cherished having these discussions with Micah. However the assembly in March wasn’t that, regardless of Micah saying publicly later it was to discuss leadership. Micah informed Jerry, ‘I wish to are available in and focus on the place we’re,’ that means a contract extension. In order that was Jerry’s expectation.”

A supply near Parsons mentioned that is “completely not” true and that Jones known as Parsons in for a management assembly, solely to steer the dialog towards contract talks. The supply says Parsons directed Jones to speak particulars together with his agent, David Mulugheta. Nevertheless the dialog obtained to a contract extension, each events acknowledge that it obtained there.

Over a three-hour assembly, Jones and Parsons mentioned numbers, years and assured cash. Each side anticipated to reset the marketplace for edge rushers, topping the $40 million average per season and $123.5 million assured that Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns had obtained nine days earlier. Parsons’ 52.5 sacks in his profession are the fifth most in a participant’s first 4 seasons. Jones mentioned after Parsons left his workplace at The Star, the proprietor believed an settlement was executed.

Later the identical day, Parsons known as Cowboys chief working officer and co-owner Stephen Jones, Jerry’s son, in an try to get extra money out of the deal, the supply informed ESPN.

“[Parsons] known as Stephen and requested can we do that, can we alter the numbers and up the assure,” the supply mentioned. “He began negotiating. He requested for a number of completely different parts and will increase. This turned a negotiation that Micah was answerable for.”

Stephen Jones consulted together with his father, and Jerry agreed to the sweetened phrases. The Cowboys believed that they had a deal in place with Parsons and would proceed to insist that he had agreed to it. Although the precise phrases aren’t recognized, Cowboys sources insist they supplied extra assured cash than the $136 million Parsons would get from Green Bay, albeit unfold throughout a five-year extension, not the four-year extension the Packers would make.

“It was north of $150 million,” the supply mentioned.

The Cowboys had been recognized to conduct contract talks with out gamers’ brokers current — a apply recognized across the league as “hotboxing.” Dak Prescott‘s 2024 deal was one such negotiation, whereby the Joneses and the quarterback mentioned Prescott’s place inside the group’s future and Prescott’s agent, Todd France, got here in later to barter the finer particulars of a contract. (“I by no means engaged in numbers,” Prescott mentioned.) The deal was finally signed the day of Dallas’ first sport of the season. If the Cowboys anticipated this negotiation to observe the identical path, Mulugheta was about to confront them with a counterpoint.

Jones would say in August on Michael Irvin’s podcast, “We have been going to ship [the terms] over to the agent and the agent mentioned do not hassle as a result of we have got all that to barter.”

To at the present time, Parsons’ company has by no means seen the ultimate particulars or construction of the deal that Jones mentioned he lower with Parsons in April, per a supply near Parsons. Jones and Mulugheta would by no means actually negotiate at any level. Dallas would merely say the deal is finished; Parsons can have it if he needs it. (Mulugheta declined to remark for this story).

“I am the one who has to signal the test and Micah is the one who has to comply with it,” Jones mentioned on April 1 on the NFL house owners’ spring assembly in Palm Seashore, Fla. “That is the straightest technique to get there, is the one who writes the test and the one who’s agreeing to it speaking.”

The Jones supply says he had nothing towards Mulugheta, although Jones insisted to reporters in Palm Seashore that he did not know Mulugheta’s identify, including, “The agent will not be an element right here, or one thing to fret about.” At that time, Jones was dug in as a result of “Micah regarded him in his eyes and mentioned we have now a deal.” The supply relayed a sense from Jones of, “Oh in order that’s how they’ll do it. Micah goes to barter with us, we’ll go up, we’ll have an settlement, after which the agent says that is the ground and we’ll go from there?”

“Jerry was like, ‘Hell no. That is not the best way that is going to work.'”

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WITH THE PARSONS state of affairs seemingly at an deadlock, the Cowboys readied themselves for the 2025 NFL draft in late April. Parsons’ future with the staff was not a difficulty confused by draft pundits or armchair analysts, most of whom had Dallas deciding on a large receiver with the No. 12 decide. The Cowboys would fill a special want by taking guard Tyler Booker, then in early Might getting their receiver by making a commerce with the Pittsburgh Steelers to acquire mercurial wideout George Pickens.

The good thing about hindsight suggests Dallas’ second-round choice had higher that means than believed on the time, although a Cowboys supply mentioned the Parsons matter didn’t have an effect on their draft board. Edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku, chosen with the No. 44 decide, got here off a season during which he led the FBS with 62 quarterback pressures and had 16.5 sacks. These searching for subtext behind the Ezeiruaku decide largely famous that edge rushers Dante Fowler Jr. (signed on a one-year deal in March — the Packers have been runners-up for his providers, in keeping with league sources) and Sam Williams have been heading into contract years, and that the rookie might assist guarantee the long run. Much less significant to observers was the truth that Parsons was headed right into a contract yr too.

Though Jones would later say the staff started discussing the thought of a Parsons commerce within the spring, Dallas didn’t discover commerce talks involving Parsons earlier than the draft, per a Cowboys staff supply. For one, the contract negotiations have been nonetheless contemporary and the staff harbored hope of Parsons accepting the beforehand mentioned deal. The Cowboys additionally favor to do trades postdraft after they consider different groups are much less inclined to cling to personnel. The Pickens deal strengthened that philosophy.

However the longer Parsons went and not using a contract, the much less seemingly he and Mulugheta have been to just accept the phrases Jones believed had been agreed upon in March — the sting rusher market had begun to skyrocket. Within the weeks earlier than the Jones/Parsons summit on the Cowboys apply facility, the Las Vegas Raiders‘ Maxx Crosby (three years, $106.5 million, $91.5 million assured) and Browns’ Garrett ($40 million per yr and $123.5 million assured) had inked new offers. By mid-July, the Steelers’ T.J. Watt would signal a three-year, $123 million extension that established him because the league’s highest-paid nonquarterback on a median wage per yr foundation.

Sources near Parsons believed that he, greater than three years youthful than Garrett and 5 years youthful than Watt, would blow these offers away. And a Cowboys supply mentioned the staff obtained indications that it will favor to “go final” within the pass-rush market, as a result of costs have been solely rising.

As Jones watched the market spike round him, the Cowboys proprietor and GM grew more and more snug letting Parsons play on his fifth-year possibility or buying and selling him.

Balancing the price of all the roster was a think about Dallas’ calculus. Just one staff — the Cincinnati Bengals — has three gamers making a minimum of $30 million per yr. If the Cowboys had given Parsons greater than $40 million yearly, they might have had the league’s highest-paid defender, highest-paid quarterback in Prescott ($60 million per yr) and one of many highest-paid vast receivers in CeeDee Lamb ($34 million).

If the Cowboys weren’t paying Parsons, it will make negotiating with in-house stars, most notably guard Tyler Smith and cornerback DaRon Bland, a neater proposition. Smith, a 2022 first-round decide, might get his extension after Yr 3 in a approach Parsons didn’t. Bland was signed to a four-year, $92 million extension on Sunday.

“It is an allocation of cash,” Jones mentioned the night time the commerce was accomplished. “So, we selected to have numbers of gamers that we might pay handsomely that might be these caliber of gamers, not younger apply squad gamers. We’re speaking gamers that may actually compete.”

And whereas Parsons’ presence within the lineup was not possible to copy — by anticipated factors added per play from 2021 by means of 2024, the Cowboys have been the NFL’s greatest protection with Parsons on the sector and the league’s worst by the identical metric when he was not — Dallas additionally believed there have been instances when his expertise have been counterproductive to the profitable trigger. Parsons ranked 68th among edge rushers in stop rate against the run and 81st in yards per run cease final season, in keeping with the FTN Soccer Almanac.

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“For Jerry, it got here again to we have now obtained to have the ability to cease the run,” the supply near Jones mentioned. “Micah doesn’t do this. In actual fact, as a result of we could not cease the run, it made Micah much less efficient. Then they will run proper at him, and that is not what he does. We couldn’t maintain mission essential.”

Nonetheless, the Cowboys have been making ready as if Parsons can be within the lineup in 2025. They understood how troublesome it will be to commerce him, despite the fact that a staff supply mentioned they have been unconcerned concerning the public relations fallout the staff would face given his reputation with followers. This was a enterprise and personnel consideration solely, and the Joneses’ perception that the value must be two first-round picks and a longtime defensive participant was crystallized because the return a few week out from the commerce, per a staff supply.

The final star move rusher traded on his rookie contract — additionally proper earlier than the beginning of the season — was Khalil Mack in 2018. The Chicago Bears sent two-first-round picks to the then-Oakland Raiders to accumulate him; Mack had 40.5 sacks by means of 4 seasons, 12.5 fewer than Parsons over the identical timeframe. Packers normal supervisor Brian Gutekunst, in his first season in cost on the time, had a comparable offer to the Raiders turned down, an expertise which may have helped get the deal for Parsons over the road.

“I believe what I realized from [the Mack] expertise is you have to be in it early,” Gutekunst mentioned Friday.

Solely every week out from the beginning of the common season, there merely would not be many commerce suitors prepared to pay that freight, particularly after they must negotiate a market-shattering new contract with Parsons on prime of the draft and personnel capital they might be expending.

In the meantime, Parsons himself had remained across the staff, displaying as much as a crawfish boil and paintball outing in the course of the first two days of the offseason program in April as a said present of management and assist for brand new coach Brian Schottenheimer. In June, Parsons told reporters he would attend coaching camp, although a hold-in started to emerge as a possible proposition absent a brand new deal.

“If you go across the league and also you see these different groups taking good care of their greatest guys, I seen T.J. [Watt] gotten taken care of. Maxx [Crosby] obtained taken care of. Myles [Garrett] obtained taken care of, [and] he is obtained two years left on his deal,” Parsons said on July 22, the day after coaching camp started. “You see lots of people across the league taken care of, and you would like you had that very same sort of power.”

There was pressure, however the relationship between Parsons and the Cowboys was effervescent at a low simmer. Virtually with out warning, it will boil over.

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IN AN ERA when statements from well-known athletes are stage-managed inside an inch of their lives by participant brokers and groups of publicists, this gave the looks of one thing completely different.

At 1:16 p.m. CT on Friday, Aug. 1, Parsons transmitted three pages of single-spaced textual content from his iPhone’s Notes app to X, laying out chapter and verse of his discontent with the Cowboys. He revealed his perspective on the March assembly with Jones, the parameters of the contract settlement that he mentioned he believed have been a place to begin and the Cowboys thought represented an settlement, and capped all of it off with a trade demand.

“Sadly I now not wish to be right here,” Parsons wrote. “I now not wish to be held to shut door negotiations with out my agent current. I now not need photographs taken at me for getting injured whereas laying it on the road for the group our followers and my teammates. I now not need narratives created and unfold to the media about me. I had purposely stayed quiet in hopes of getting one thing executed.”

The quiet had been interrupted, although it had been Jerry Jones who had damaged the silence earlier in camp with an indictment of Parsons’ sturdiness and availability.

“Simply because we signal him doesn’t suggest we’ll have him,” Jones mentioned. “He was damage six video games final yr [actually four]. Significantly. I keep in mind signing a participant for the highest-paid on the place within the league and he obtained knocked out two-thirds of the yr in Dak Prescott. So, there’s lots of issues you’ll be able to take into consideration, simply because the participant does, if you’re occupied with committing and guaranteeing cash.”

Parsons had missed just one sport over his first three seasons within the league.

The “repeated photographs” Parsons cited continued when Jones was requested to reply to the “Pay Micah” chants the proprietor was serenaded with by followers at camp.

“I heard it mild, however not in comparison with how I heard them say, ‘Pay Lamb’ [last year],” Jones mentioned a day later. “That was a faint little sound in comparison with the best way they have been hollering final yr, ‘Pay Lamb.’ … Whoever’s not in, you’ll be able to depend on just a few hollering that. But it surely was an enormous loud chant final yr on Lamb.”

Stephen Jones would further aggravate Parsons by commenting, “We wish to pay Micah too, he is obtained to wish to be paid.”

Amid the pettiness and damage emotions, Parsons continued to point out up — a supply near Parsons mentioned Mulugheta does not see the worth in gamers getting fined and suggested him to be current — albeit whereas citing again tightness as the rationale he wasn’t training. Parsons had an MRI on his again in late August that got here again clear, in keeping with Schottenheimer, and was cleared by Cowboys docs to apply.

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He continued to take part in walk-throughs and conferences but additionally exhibited unusual conduct together with not carrying his apply jersey, or on one other day carrying it round his neck, and coming to apply with out footwear. Earlier than the staff’s preseason finale towards the Falcons, Parsons ate nachos as he walked to the locker room, and most memorably lay on a medical table during the game and appeared to shut his eyes. The picture went viral.

“[Cowboys pass-rushing legend] Charles Haley would have flipped him off the rattling desk if he noticed that,” a staff supply mentioned.

Parsons’ conduct throughout camp rubbed many within the constructing, together with within the locker room, the fallacious approach, with one staff supply saying his power was “deflating.” However a staff supply famous that Parsons stayed engaged in conferences and carried out his personal two-a-days — one carry, one working session per workday. “I believed he was doing all the pieces he might to be prepared for Philly (Week 1),” the supply mentioned.

This encapsulates the Parsons expertise to sources within the constructing over his four-year tenure. A number of sources mentioned he wasn’t probably the most diligent within the weight room or in getting remedy, although others thought of him a tough employee who improved his communication expertise with coaches and gamers however whose decision-making was generally in query. One instance was Parsons’ outspokenness on his podcast, which rankled some teammates. The entrance workplace and coaches did not have a significant drawback with it. However teammate Malik Hooker made his issues known publicly final yr. As one staff supply put it, Parsons was recognized to be essential, generally out of ardour for the sport, however coaches would urge him to think about that “you’ll be able to’t name guys out who do not have your capacity,” and studying lead and “deliver others together with you” is essential. That half was thought of a course of for him.

Amid the turmoil, there have been many within the sport who believed a détente would finally be reached. A number of staff sources believed Parsons was honest in his said want to retire a Cowboy, noting that he just lately constructed a house within the space. “I believe he felt he was going to play out his profession there,” a supply mentioned. Jerry Jones’ personal phrases have been one other main purpose why the matter appeared resolvable.

“Any speak of buying and selling is B.S.,” Jones mentioned on the “Stephen A. Smith Show” on Aug. 22 at the same time as a staff president who is aware of the Cowboys operation effectively informed ESPN that in his discussions with them in August, it was clear that Dallas was ready to maneuver Parsons.

“After all Jerry gave a head pretend to the media,” a supply near Jones mentioned. “You need to exit and say we aren’t all in favour of buying and selling him. When you say you might be buying and selling him, you aren’t getting s—.” Jones would acknowledge to reporters after Parsons was traded that this had been a purposeful tactic.

Amid the drama across the contract and different lesser points together with Parsons’ apply habits among the many ache factors, the Joneses had seen sufficient. The Cowboys informed the staff president that they cherished the participant, however not the particular person. That they had made up their minds. Now they simply wanted a commerce accomplice.

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TWO DAYS BEFORE Parsons turned a Packer, the move rusher’s representatives made one last-ditch effort with the Cowboys — within the type of an e mail. The be aware from Mulugheta to Jerry and Stephen Jones, as one supply who considered the correspondence recollects, acknowledged that lots of issues had been mentioned within the media, maybe some miscommunications alongside the best way, however regardless of all of that, Parsons was nonetheless prepared to do a deal that might maintain him in Dallas. The letter mentioned Parsons’ representatives have been prepared to come back to Dallas, bounce on a video name, no matter it took to doubtlessly hammer one thing out.

Jerry Jones responded to the message, saying the Cowboys have been prepping a commerce and if Parsons needed to play in Dallas in 2025, he would have to take action on his fifth-year possibility. Parsons would grow to be a free agent in 2026, however the staff might additionally use the franchise tag to stop his departure at that time. Parsons must determine his subsequent transfer if the Cowboys could not commerce him, although a supply near him notes that Parsons by no means threatened to carry out and if wholesome, he would have performed on the choice.

Issues accelerated from there. The Packers, given permission to talk to Mulugheta by the Cowboys, made their first formal contract supply to Parsons on Tuesday. Inexperienced Bay had parameters of a commerce hammered out that matched Dallas’ phrases: Two first-round picks and veteran defensive deal with Kenny Clark would go to the Cowboys in trade for Parsons. Clark, a staple of the Packers protection since coming into the league in 2016, was hardly a throw-in. His contract was engaging — Inexperienced Bay had already paid him the majority of his 2025 deal, so the Cowboys would pay him simply $2 million this season, and $20 million unguaranteed subsequent season. A two-year, $22 million deal for a high-level participant was considered as a win for a Dallas staff that sees the 29-year-old Clark as a multiyear answer, and there would even be no lifeless cash if the Cowboys selected to launch him after the season.

“From our perspective, it needed to embody Kenny Clark,” a supply near Jones mentioned. “The one approach it labored for us, we’d like one thing that helps us now and helps us sooner or later.”

That Inexperienced Bay — the opponent that had knocked three of the perfect Cowboys groups of the previous 11 years (2014, 2016, 2023) out of the playoffs — was the commerce accomplice was apparently not a deterrent to getting the deal executed.

As for Parsons’ new contract, whereas the Cowboys had been unwilling to cope with Mulugheta, the agent’s communication with the Packers was easy, in keeping with a supply near Parsons. Previous offers for shoppers Jordan Love and Xavier McKinney supplied familiarity between the events, so hammering out an settlement took a while however was not painful in keeping with the supply. Had the deal fallen aside, a minimum of three different groups have been , and the Cowboys wouldn’t have traded Parsons inside the division. One staff informed ESPN it wasn’t as a result of it felt the value was too excessive for a participant who may develop into a headache. One other believed Dallas would not commerce Parsons till subsequent spring and indicated they may be then.

Inexperienced Bay knew the deal can be expensive and did not combat that actuality, with a supply accustomed to negotiations saying the contract was “clear and quick,” for probably the most half. The transfer to a deal gained steam within the hour or so earlier than 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, as soon as Mulugheta had laid out the commerce phrases and Parsons had signed off. Parsons’ four-year, $188 million deal included $120 million absolutely assured at signing and $136 million in whole ensures, making him the highest-paid nonquarterback in NFL historical past.

The Packers have reached the playoffs 5 instances in seven seasons beneath Gutekunst however haven’t made a Tremendous Bowl throughout that point. Lower than a yr after Gutekunst was promoted to GM in 2018, then-team president Mark Murphy fired Mike McCarthy as coach with 4 video games left in that season. In 2019, Murphy employed Matt LaFleur, who took Inexperienced Bay to 2 straight NFC title video games, however the staff hasn’t been again since. Each Gutekunst and LaFleur are beneath contract by means of the 2026 season, and each report back to new staff president Ed Coverage, who took over in July after Murphy retired.

A number of Packers sources mentioned Gutekunst thought all alongside a commerce for Parsons was an extended shot. He thought that when push got here to shove, Jerry Jones wouldn’t half methods with a star participant within the prime of his profession — an thought Gutekunst confirmed Friday in Parsons’ unveiling in Inexperienced Bay.

“The probabilities of these items [blockbuster trades] taking place are fairly slim, and I believe that was my mindset the entire time, was maintain the conversations going due to the distinctiveness of the participant,” Gutekunst mentioned. “However I do not suppose it was actually till the previous couple of days that I really thought, ‘Hey, there’s a possibility right here to shut this factor out.'”

When doing their homework on Parsons, Gutekunst and the Packers reached out to those that had labored with, performed with or coached Parsons in school and in Dallas.

He would not identify names, however league sources mentioned Gutekunst and McCarthy, who coached the Packers from 2006 to 2018 and Cowboys from 2020 to 2024, maintained a very good relationship. Parsons and McCarthy had a strong connection — the sting rusher mentioned in January that Dallas’ resolution to half methods together with his former coach was “devastating.”

One Packers supply mentioned the opportunity of touchdown Parsons began to really feel actual a few week earlier than the deal, which strains up with Dallas’ timeline of when the Cowboys obtained critical.

By late afternoon Thursday, LaFleur spoke straight with Parsons about their new partnership, together with his assistant coaches coming out and in of LaFleur’s workplace to high-five and have a good time.

As to which staff obtained the higher finish of the deal, opinions assorted, although probably the most forceful response got here within the type of criticism leveled on the polarizing Jerry Jones. Two NFL executives questioned why the Cowboys did not get extra in return after the commerce went down.

“Very dangerous for Dallas in that they obtained little compensation compared to different celebrity prime trades,” a separate NFC government mentioned. “It is OK for Inexperienced Bay in that their pursuits are to get past the primary or second spherical. I believe [Parsons is] a really productive common season participant. I believe when groups begin working heavy within the playoffs, he turns into much less scary.”

In a information convention following the commerce, one during which Jerry Jones repeatedly referred to Parsons as “Michael,” the proprietor justified the transfer.

“It takes a couple of [player to win a championship] and so that you do need to allocate your assets, whether or not it’s draft picks or whether or not it’s funds, you need to allocate these assets,” Jones mentioned. “There was no query in our thoughts that [Micah] might deliver us lots of assets on a commerce.”

As Jones took warmth for the deal in some corners, others within the league have been extra conciliatory towards Dallas, particularly when noting the elevated wage cap flexibility and the way it might affect the Cowboys’ negotiations with different core gamers.

“[Filling a] DT want and two 1s is an efficient haul, actually,” an AFC government mentioned. “Plus, not paying one other max contract. That is an enormous a part of this.”

The Joneses expressed a perception that they might find yourself with one other three to 5 gamers out of the deal, along with taking good care of Smith and Bland.

The tip of the Parsons period in Dallas, maybe fittingly, got here within the type of one other tweet — this one a farewell. Whereas expressing his appreciation to Cowboys followers and vowing that North Texas would proceed to be his offseason house, Parsons acknowledged the fractious negotiations that had reached a tipping level with that much-debated assembly with Jerry Jones.

“I by no means needed this chapter to finish, however not all the pieces was in my management. My coronary heart has at all times been right here, and it nonetheless is. By means of all of it, I by no means made any calls for,” Parsons mentioned, not acknowledging his commerce request. “I by no means requested for something greater than equity. I solely requested that the particular person I belief to barter my contract be a part of the method.”

Parsons made his first look in Inexperienced Bay the subsequent day, assembly the native media and expressing aid at his state of affairs’s decision. He dismissed his again drawback — revealed on Monday to be an L4/L5 side joint sprain for which the Cowboys had prescribed a five-day plan of an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid and a bodily remedy program — as one thing that might be a significant subject, reinforcing the assumption that his contract, not well being, was on the core of his restricted summer season participation. Parsons practiced with the Packers on Monday.

“I believe bodily, , I am nice,” Parsons mentioned. “I believe I can contribute so much. I’ll staff up with the docs in making a plan. We already talked about how we will ramp issues up and get me right into a stream the place they really feel snug and I really feel snug.”

Parsons will return to Dallas together with his new staff on Sept. 28, for a Sunday night time, Week 4 showdown towards the Cowboys. His last look at AT&T Stadium as a Cowboy shall be remembered for the sight of Parsons splayed throughout a coaching desk. His subsequent one, carrying a Packers uniform, figures to revive the imaginative and prescient of how Parsons turned one of many elite defensive gamers of his technology within the first place. Parsons himself famous the stakes of what comes subsequent.

“They did not surrender what they gave up for me to take a seat on the sidelines.”