Best of NFL News Part 1: Devon Witherspoon gets PAID + Jerry Jones REFLECTS on Micah Parsons trade + Shedeur Sanders RED FLAG? artwork

Best of NFL News Part 1: Devon Witherspoon gets PAID + Jerry Jones REFLECTS on Micah Parsons trade + Shedeur Sanders RED FLAG?

Nightcap

August 19, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, and Joe "King Iso" Johnson bring you the Best of NFL News on Nightcap!
Speakers: Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson, Gilbert Arenas

Topics: Football, Sports, Basketball

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
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At the Cowboys' trade in Micah Parsons to the Packers last year, Jerry Jones compared the move to Herschel Walker trade in 1989 Today, Jerry did it again. You could say those picks got us key players, but the main thing is that Herschel Walker trade did. It caused me to be more aggressive and caused us, if you will, take more risk because we had more picks.

**Chad Johnson** (0:41)
Jerry and Sting, y'all, man.

**Gilbert Arenas** (0:43)
You're going to stir it up every time, man.

**Chad Johnson** (0:44)
He was, Ocho?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:46)
He was.

**Gilbert Arenas** (0:46)
He's going to stir it up every time.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:47)
Micah sacrifice one of the best defensive players in 2026 for a first round pick in the 2027, second first round pick and to do his attack on Katie Clark. For Walker, he had 1000 yard performance in three NFL seasons. The Cowboys have won with three first round picks, three second round picks, a third round pick and a sixth round pick. How's that comparable?
Yeah. Now, if they had traded, if that was Barry Sanders, okay, sure.
Hershel Walker was not one of the best offensive players. He was the best player Dallas had, but he was not one of the best players in the league. Because you do realize like Jerry was in the league at that time, right? Joe Montana was in the league, Bruce Smith was in the league, Reggie White was in the league. All those guys were in the league.

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:40)
I mean, at the running back position, wasn't Hershel Walker that boy?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:42)
Barry was that, Christian Okoye was that boy. Barry Sanders was that boy. Thurman Thomas was that boy.
He had 1000-yard season, Ocho. Like I said, he was the only thing the Cowboys could trade. Do you realize what the Cowboys got for Hershel? Three first-round picks, three second-round picks, a third-round pick and a sixth-round pick.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:07)
Yeah, hey, who would get there right now in today's game? Those exact numbers.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:16)
Prior to the injury, probably been Mahomes.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:20)
He's the only one, too. Three first-round picks?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:28)
Wow.

**Chad Johnson** (2:31)
Game different.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:32)
Three.

**Chad Johnson** (2:33)
Game made the game.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:34)
Y'all better go back.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:35)
Man, look here. Like I said, he was the best player Dallas had. He was the only thing that Dallas could trade.

**Chad Johnson** (2:44)
That was the only thing of value that they had.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:45)
For that matter.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:47)
Micah, for me, I think Micah was a top-five defensive player.

**Chad Johnson** (2:52)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:58)
So, I don't think it's the same. Jerry's gonna make it seem...
Maybe Jerry, that's wishful thinking. And all it has to do is Jerry says, if I win a Super Bowl, that's all that matters.

**Chad Johnson** (3:10)
That's it.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:10)
That's all that matters.

**Chad Johnson** (3:12)
And he just want him another Super Bowl before he go off.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:15)
He does.

**Chad Johnson** (3:15)
That's all he wants, man. That's all he wants.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:19)
And you know, it seems like, like the farther, the more time passed between you and the one that you just want, the one that you want, you're like, damn, it's gonna happen? Am I gonna win another Super Bowl? Or, because think about it. Jerry brought the team in 89
By 95, they had three.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:44)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:46)
Damn. By 95, they had three.
So you know what happens when you have that kind of success. So early, Ocho and Joe, you think, this bad, this, like how they say, this is about to be a breeze.

**Gilbert Arenas** (4:02)
Breeze. Oh, no.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:04)
Oh, no.

**Gilbert Arenas** (4:05)
Well, listen, it was a breeze when you had that kind of college you had. Yes.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:08)
And you had that kind of coach that could drive them.

**Gilbert Arenas** (4:12)
That too, until the rest of the league caught up.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:14)
If you came to Kansas City, and you came to Kansas City from 2019 to 2024, all you know is going to the Subo.

**Chad Johnson** (4:24)
That's it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:25)
You're like, man, this thing. Man, people are talking about going to the Subo hard. Man, we go there every year.

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