I don't think they saw it as a "Herschel trade" at all, the Herschel trade was beyond ridiculous and its almost a 100% lock nothing like it ever happens again. They were never getting all that. I do think they got less than we all expected, but it was never going to be a Walker level deal nor do I believe in their minds they think they GOT a Walker type deal.
I think its as simple as Jones was genuinely pissed (and maybe even hurt) that Parsons reneged on what he thought was a very generous offer, something that exceeded what Parsons himself said he needed.
He didn't trade him immediately because he really didn't want to, they know he's a great, unique player and he (Jones) believed they'd work it out.
Then we got to camp, and Parsons went full turd. Skipped all the practices. Made up a fake injury to keep getting paid and avoid fines.
The Falcons preseason game pushed them all over the edge and they (collectively) said "fuck it, he has to go"
It sux, I think it totally hijacked Schottenheimer's first camp and I would not be surprised if Schott might have went to Jerry and Spawn after that Falcons game and said "enough is enough". The timeline of how they said this trade went down seems to indicate this is probably how it all played out too.
Regarding the part about not getting what we all expected, I don't know where we sometimes get the idea of what we should expect.
Like we will compare it to the Mack trade, but in that case we had two bad teams making the trade and different cap situations. But we as fans tend to not take context into account.
I went shopping for a small truck. I went to the Toyota dealership and looked at a new Tacoma. They wanted MORE than MSRP. I said I do not care if the truck says Tacoma on it, I will not pay more than sticker. In fact, I won't pay the MSRP.
So I went to Nissan, got myself of Frontier Pro-X with a naturally aspirated V6 (no turbo) for under MSRP. It will last at least to 150k miles, probably more. It still looks nice. It still rides nice etc.
In other words, it takes two to tango. Obviously, a lot of people have no problem paying above MSRP for a Tacoma.
The alternative was what? Insist on more, then have Green Bay say no and you're stuck with Parson's holding out or being a malcontent?
Yeah, I would have liked a good young prospect thrown in there or maybe a third, but I don't think the deal was a bad one. I just heard Mickey say that we don't have 2 firsts in the same year. As far as I know, we do. Ours and there's.
Now we just have to see how it plays out.
