After receiving criticism for his comments about Mike McCarthy after the loss to the Eagles, Micah Parsons has taken to Twitter to talk about college players he wants to see the Cowboys draft. That comes across as a shot at his own teammates to many fans, and while he may be right, it’s not a great look from your team’s best player. Will Parsons ever be the type of leader Cowboys fans expect him to be?
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00:00Look, clearly he's watching games on Saturday, right? I mean, hell, think about it. The guy
00:19didn't play for five weeks. So, I mean, he's watching a lot of ball too. Team does need
00:24middle linebacker, right? I mean, Kendrick's is gone and he knows that nothing he said
00:28was wrong. It's just who it's coming from. Because it's him, I mean, it's par for the
00:35course. This is what he does. And so, I guess what you do is you just, again, you factor
00:40in this is part of who this guy is, right? If you're in that locker room and you see
00:45those tweets, defense needs to be better, hold teams under 20 points, we need to draft
00:48this guy, draft that guy. But you're already, this is the same guy that will have opposing
00:53players on a podcast the day after you got your ass kicked. Okay, this is the same guy
00:58that for five weeks while he wasn't playing, and he was hurt. I mean, again, we're not
01:01taking anything away from that. But again, you know enough about sports and you do enough
01:06shows with professional athletes. You're banished from, not banished, but you're not a part
01:10of the team, right? Guys talk about it all the time. When you're hurt, you're the loneliest
01:13guy in the world because you're not a part of the team. You're going through treatment,
01:19you're trying to get right, and everybody else is doing their thing because they don't
01:22have time to talk to you, right? They got work to do. And so for four or five weeks,
01:27I mean, look, we've, I mean, I've seen it two or three times where they panned him during
01:32the game and he's sitting on the bench laughing or cracking jokes. You know, when he was hurt,
01:37he's laid back and, you know, got a leg up and, you know, shooting the breeze with his
01:41guys. And so it's just a maturity thing. And at what point does he, does he, does it, does
01:46it flip?
01:47Unfortunately, I think my biggest takeaway from the season is Micah Parsons is not the
01:53leader of the team. I mean, you wish he was, you wish he was, and I wanted to give him
01:58benefit of the doubt of just people were giving him a hard time. He's young, but it just feels
02:02like every time he has a chance to be a true leader, I just don't think he has the right
02:06people in his ear, but what a true leader is. I think he's trying, I don't think he's
02:09purposefully going out. Like I'm going to tarnish my leadership status, but why do we,
02:15why do we think he's a leader though? I think, I think just cause he's the best player on
02:18the, on the defense, the best player on your team. You hope they are a leader. You see
02:21it time in and time out and you give them benefit of the doubt that he's going to figure
02:24it out. But have you heard any glaring reviews of him being a great leader? Or have you heard
02:29glaring reviews from his mouth himself? Like even if not going off other people's word,
02:33just watching them yourself, it's very hard to make an argument that, Hey, this guy is
02:37a great player and a great leader of men. When the time times are down where they're
02:41rallying around him, great player. No one is like taking anything away. He does on the
02:45football field. It's more so what he does off the football field. It gives me concerns.
02:50Micah wants to come play football. He's going to give you a, he's going to give you most
02:53of what he's got for 60 minutes and then he's going to go be whatever when he's not on the
02:58field. And that's, that's what you get out of him.