The Dallas Cowboys aren’t foreign to dominating the headlines. They’ve done so plenty this season, which isn’t abnormal. However, the reason for doing so isn’t the best.
America’s team is just 3-7 through ten games and they’re quite a bad football team, no matter what Micah Parsons might try and say.
Speaking of Parsons, he’s been one of the reasons for the club’s negative spotlight. He was quite blunt about his feelings regarding Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy earlier this season.
“You want to win games and do great things with those type of legends who put in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. So, those are the kind of guys that I have so much sympathy and hurt for,” Parsons said earlier this season.
The superstar pass rusher was clear that he doesn’t feel bad for the head coach, but instead feels bad for veteran players who might be at the end of their careers amid the franchise’s woes this season.
That’s just one of many storylines. Jerry Jones and the feud with CeeDee Lamb and the sunlight in AT&T Stadium glaring into the end zone.
Jones called for two radio hosts’ jobs, as well, while being scrutinized for the poor roster construction leading to bad results on the season.
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One situation is being made right, though, as Parsons tried to walk back his statement on Thursday:
“When I’m talking about ‘here,’ I’m thinking the Dallas Cowboys,” Parsons said. “I was in middle school, elementary school when Mike McCarthy was with the Packers, and I have no reference to that. So, when I’m talking about here Dallas Cowboys and what was accomplished the most, I’m thinking about the guys, and I’ve only ever been here. So obviously no disrespect to [McCarthy’s] career and what he’s made for himself as one of the most winningest coaches. I could have done better. I was angry and I just didn’t finish, and I wasn’t as thoughtful as I usually am. I didn’t think people would take that context the way it was. That’s on me. I lost [the game], I didn’t want to finish, and I wanted to hurry up out of the locker room. Next time I will be very careful about what I say. So that’s my apologies.”
Not only did Parsons apologize, but he revealed that he and McCarthy had a conversation the day after the team’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, which is when the Penn State product made his comments.
“The most important thing is obviously how much love I have for Coach McCarthy,” Parsons said Thursday. “You never want to throw shade or anything on your coach. But I think like anything, him understanding I’m always going to be a players’ guy first, right. I’m always going to think about the guys around me before anyone. That’s who I go to war with. Those are the guys that are leaning on me and I’m leaning on them. That’s how we feed our families. That’s kind of what I wanted to get across. We hashed it out, it was all good and gravy.”
The two might have hashed it out by now, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that the head coach will likely be out of his job at the end of the season, and the Cowboys are in a terrible spot as a franchise.
