Ahead of Week 10 in the NFL season, it was announced that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott would have season-ending surgery, taking a bad situation with America’s team and making it much worse. Well, after Dallas’s 34-6 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, former Penn State Nittany Lions Micah Parsons added even more fuel to that dumpster fire.
Parsons, made outlandish comments about his head coach in the locker room, saying “Mike (McCarthy) can leave and go where he wants.”
The fourth-year pro continued, taking another shot at his head coach after praising future Hall of Fame offensive guard Zack Martin, “You want to win games and do great things with those legends who put in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did.”
Parsons is no stranger to a microphone in his face. The star edge rusher, who has missed four games this season with an injury, hosts a podcast called The Edge, and former NFL player and current ESPN analyst Damien Woody is tired of hearing from these, as he put it, “podcast boys.”
Way to preach @damienwoody and calling out the statement by players that are “podcast boys” like @MicahhParsons11 in season. Totally disrespectful ! #GetUpESPN pic.twitter.com/fWtLmzhbn6
— Connie Carberg (@ConnieScouts) November 11, 2024
Players have gone out of their way to criticize their head coach before, but Parsons’ direct disrespectful attacks at a former Super Bowl-winning head coach feel relatively unprecedented. To so directly say that your head coach can “leave and go wherever he wants,” is likely a bridge too far for even the most outspoken players across the league.
Parsons earned a bit of a “diva” reputation at Penn State when he was one of the first players to announce that he was opting out of the pandemic-shortened season in 2020. It was an unfair label for the future first-round NFL Draft pick back then, but now, these comments may have cemented it.