FRISCO – The preposterous notion that at NFL Trade Deadline Day the Dallas Cowboys would be entertaining trade calls for Micah Parsons – an idea that caught fire when ESPN’s Adam Schefter seemed to have completely made up a story about “conversations” – is now officially dead.

Schefter grabbed a great deal of attention (which was probably the point, right?) with his appearance on the ESPN Get Up! morning show on Monday, suggesting that Micah Parsons’ name is involved in trade talks.

Schefter swore that teams were having “conversations” about whether star edge rusher Micah Parsons could be available for the right price. His presentation, though, was something short of “reporting” and stumbled into “gossip.”

“Well, maybe we should call the Dallas Cowboys to see if they would trade some of their players,” Schefter said, putting himself in the GM chair of 31 other teams. “Maybe we should check to see if they would be willing to move on from Micah Parsons, which I don’t think they would be, but those are the conversations that are going on.”

We wrote in immediate response to Schefter’s loosey-goosey remarks that pending verification of the claim, that this came across as the worst sort of clickbait.

Well, here we are now, five days following the statement and four days following the passing of the deadline. If Schefter is/was right? He’s sitting on a monster story. And yet … not a peep.

Except, that is, from Jerry Jones, who on Friday on 105.3 The Fan was asked about the concept of trading the team’s best player. … and about whether there were any such “conversations.”

Responded Jones with unusual clarity: “No. Absolutely not. We want Micah Parsons. He’s integral to our future. We haven’t had one conversation ever about not having Micah Parsons on the team. Ever.”