The Dallas Cowboys’ locker room has turned on the “panic mode”. After losing six out of nine games, the team is in a flux as things unravel around them in a season which began with the highest of expectations. That was also evident when Micah Parsons implied he cared little about coach Mike McCarthy’s future with the team. The words came right after the Cowboys’ latest loss — 6-34 against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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“Mike can leave and go wherever he wants,” Micah said, adding that he cares more about the veteran players who deserve to make the most out of their final years in the team.
Micah, however, clarified later on his podcast that his response was taken out of context. The damage was already done by then. Parsons’ remarks on his coach have kicked up a storm as they were suggestive of a friction within the locker room.
Cowboys legend Michael Irvin backed Micah’s comments, albeit diplomatically.
He concurred with what Micah said about his coach. Just that the ‘choice of words’ allowed Rex Ryan and other reporters the opening to twist the narrative a little, leading to the controversy.
“What he’s saying is not incorrect. It’s just how he is saying it,” Irvin said.
Irvin added that Micah should have said something like this: “Coaches in this league come and go all the time. That’s a highly stressful job, we know it’s about winning. So a lot of talk around Mike McCarthy and that talk will continue, we won’t be able to stop that. But what I do worry about are the players. That’s who I’m trying to honor.”
Enter Stephen A. Smith, who was not going to stay away when a controversy like this was brewing.
Stephen A. gives his verdict on Parsons’ take
Stephen A. has always been a harsh critic of the Cowboys. However, he has been very objective in his assessment of the team this season.
“It’s not okay,” Stephen A. said about Micah’s remarks on McCarthy. “But do we know his rationale behind going that far? Because that’s not ordinary for him.”
Smith believes that Micah generally doesn’t throw people under the bus. That implies there could be some serious issues in the background that forced him to say something like this about his coach.
“When somebody does something they would never ever do, you got to ask yourself why,” Smith said.
Smith understands that the coaching department is one of the problem areas in the team. Earlier, he had even suggested Jerry Jones to consider Deion Sanders as the next head coach.
These are difficult times for the Cowboys and Smith feels that Jones needs to make some big moves, or else the Cowboys could be doomed.
