Linebacker Micah Parsons is still a member of the Dallas Cowboys days after requesting a trade. He also still doesn't have a new contract.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/nfl/cowboys as Cowboys owner Jerry Jones doubles down on contract Micah Parsons stance. Jerry Jones has never been one to accept responsibility for a Dallas Cowboys contract negotiation gone wrong.

And that, in turn, led to a weekend of responses, including a wild thread involving Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, entertainment mogul Jay-Z, “Queen of Rap” Nicki Minaj, and former Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant. As strange as it sounds, those characters were all joined together by the contract standoff between Parsons and the Cowboys.