Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones recently joined 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM) to discuss the Micah Parsons trade rumors, DaRon Bland’s injury progress and more.

Here are some highlights, edited for length and clarity:

Micah Parsons said he was flattered so many people talked about his trade value last week. Was his name ever mentioned, or was it ever brought up as a potential trade candidate?

Jerry Jones: “None. Absolutely not.”

So teams don’t call you, Jerry? Did team call you and check?

Jones: “Well, first of all, I wouldn’t because we want Micah Parsons. He is part of our future. So “no” is the big answer. What if I called here and picked the top player in the league, three or four of them, you know what I would get if I picked up the phone and said, “Do you want to trade him?” A big “no”, are you kidding me? The point is that we haven’t and it hasn’t been done. We haven’t had a conversation, a conversation at the level that counts, which is my level and with Stephen (Jones) and Will (McClay) and people like that. But we haven’t had a single conversation about not having Micah Parsons on the team. Ever.”

Can you tell me more about what happened to daron bland? A few weeks ago it seemed like he was ready to go. He suffered a setback. How big of a setback happened because he’s still not training all these weeks later?

Jones: “We never do that, regardless of technicality or how someone evaluates their injury, or the progress they’re making or what they should be doing. There’s a big swing between players on the same injury when they’re going to be ready to go. We never, ever whether it is in or out of the game, we never dismiss the No. 1 consideration? How does he feel? Is he free to cut it? ?Where is he going?Because at the end of the day, that’s all that matters.

“I’ve seen players go out there with unrepaired injuries and play haphazardly with an unrepaired injury and play more aggressively and play faster than players who have had the injury repaired. And they’re still tentative with it. Now that doesn’t mean anything about the quality of the individual or the player at all.”

You have Kellen Moore on the other side of the ball again like last year. What did you like about Kellen when he was here and how have you seen him grow since he left?

Jones: “Well, Kellen was such an outstanding player in college. So good in college and he did it as much as he could with his skills. He’s a coach’s son who was really coached and he really had a great college career. He’s using the same thing that made him to a really outstanding college quarterback. He uses that to coach. When you get these guys that have played a key position, and he’s been around some really top coordinators. The time he spent here with Mike (McCarthy) did nothing but improve his coaching ability in my opinion.

“He’s going to be around for a long time. He’s an outstanding coach and he’s going to be formidable out there as the offensive coordinator against us.”

Listen to the rest of Jones’ radio appearance here.

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