Micah Parsons, Dallas Cowboys Linebacker

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2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. Back inside radio row getting set for Super Bowl 58 and now joining us one of the better defensive players in the NFL from the Dallas Cowboys and that of course is Micah Parsons and by the way big brothers big sisters of America teams up with NFL Inspire Change for the big draft campaign to recruit thousands of mentors nationwide. Micah Parsons, great to see you.

Appreciate you doing this. How you been? I'm good man. Extremely blessed. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. How old's your son by the way? Five years old.

Okay, so I don't know if you remember this. Last year you were at a steakhouse, you're probably saying which one, in Arizona for the Super Bowl and I was sitting at a table over from you and it was the night Kevin Durant got traded and I'm pretty sure my buddy goes, hey Kevin Durant got traded and you're there with your mom. It was you and then your son and you looked over you were like, wait who just got traded?

And it was Kevin Durant and I looked over and I saw your son. I've never seen a kid eat a steak like the way that that your son did. That was impressive and I never knew how old he was but man, he housed that steak at that restaurant. Man, he's a monster man. When he's hungry and he really wants to go into something he's not in this snack phase, man he goes hard.

Yeah, no doubt about it. He's definitely going to play one day, right? Yeah, man he's dying to play. He's like, I want to play football just like you. He's already envisioned himself being a Cowboy.

Yeah, it's pretty cool what you guys have going with the Cowboys because we see Trayvon Diggs son all the time. He's like a social media superstar these days with the interviews. He's about to go famous.

He's going to be a famous one. Yeah, no doubt about it. So, when you look back at this season, you guys were phenomenal in the regular season. It didn't go your way in the postseason up against the Packers. How do you kind of reflect on that game up against Green Bay? You know, I think for me, I'm all about learning.

How did this happen? What mistakes did I make? How can I become a better leader? And how can I rally the guys around me to support me and my vision? And that's something you have to learn how to be a leader. You know, you think about the greatest players.

What do they do? They learn how to make the people around them better and they help them play to the standard that we all wanted to play in the culture. So, I just think it's all about that. You know, I think in the game of football, sometimes you lose, you know, sometimes a player is better than you or whatever, whatever it may be. But if you're bought in, you get on things.

You just lock back in. You're like, this is the moment. We know our details. We know what to do. We got to communicate. We got to overly communicate and just do the details. And I think that's going to be the difference next year. So, when you look at the small details on why this happened, what did you kind of see from a football standpoint?

Like, what jumped out from you when you look back at the tape? You know, it's the little things over explain the time that just become bigger and bigger. You know, people want to be their own identities. People want to outgrow themselves. People always want to make the splash plays. You know, you got to think about the Cowboys. We live on big plays. We live on a lot of momentum and things like that.

So, sometimes you forget. Sometimes you just got to take one step forward. Talking to Micah Parsons right now, you'll have a new defensive coordinator this year, Mike Zimmer.

What was the reaction when that news came down the other day? You know, it was good. I'm just happy that we finally got to DC and kind of get the media out of the way because obviously Dan's departure.

But super excited to meet him. I'm ready to see the scheme. I'm ready to learn and I'm ready, you know, to be a dominant player. Well, we all know that you're a playmaker. They could put you anywhere and you'll go make plays. What do you think, though, is the best way that you should be utilized with Mike Zimmer? You know, I think I should be utilized all the way. I think Dan did a great job. Don't get me wrong.

I don't think, you know, I don't want that to be understood. I was a top three finisher, three time all-pro, three pro bowler under Dan Quinn. So, you know, Dan moved me around amazingly. I just think, you know, I just got to keep moving around, find ways to free me up, find ways to scheme me up to get one-on-ones and also get other people going.

So that way, I can't just be the focus point and, you know, just go from there. Micah Parsons is our guest right now. What are the commanders getting in Dan Quinn? You know, the commanders is getting a real genuine dude, a genuine guy who's amazing dude, man. I can't say anything nice enough about him. You know, he treated me like a son. You know, he treated me like a brother. He treated me like a friend when I needed him to. When I needed someone to just talk about life, talk about my family, my kids, that's who Dan was to me. So I think you're getting a great combination of a player's coach.

I think these guys are going to buy into them and be great for him. I won't sugarcoat it. We obviously on a national show, we talk a lot about the Dallas Cowboys. That comes up pretty much almost every day, the conversation around the Cowboys. We had Emmitt Smith on earlier and he's been critical of the team and we talked about is this group mentally tough enough to go through some of these tough times to ultimately see it through and then get to an NFC championship game, get through to a Super Bowl and win it.

You beat in that locker room. Do you think this group has what it takes to be mentally tough enough to one day get that Lombardi? Man, I'm gonna just say all it takes is one, right?

Energy's contagious. I know I'm mentally tough enough. I'm willing to do anything for my team.

I'm willing to do anything for his organization to get there. I promise Dallas to Super Bowl. I will be a Super Bowl champion.

That's the one thing about journeys. You don't know what day it's going to be, what year it's going to be. The next year is not guaranteed.

The year after that's not guaranteed. But I will be in the Super Bowl and I, you know, I will, my energy will be contagious across that locker room. You weren't the only player that had a family member speak up after that playoff loss to Green Bay. Do you fully intend to be a Cowboy for life? Is this the only team you want to play for? This is the only team I want to play for. Since before the draft I said I wanted to be in Dallas. I wanted to be a Cowboy. I wanted to star.

I wanted to bring the champions back to Dallas for that reason. Take me through your quarterback as Micah Parsons here with us. He always gets talked about a lot. When you look at Dak as a quarterback, what are your thoughts on him as a QB? You know, I think he's a really good quarterback. You know, I don't think you can find another quarterback who's as good as the leader. You know, he's a quarterback who can expand with his legs. He's a great quarterback. He had a great year. He's an all-pro this year and I think people underlook him sometimes.

I think people don't appreciate him and value him and he's also a really good friend. When you take a look last night as Micah Parsons here with us, Myles Garrett wins Defensive Player of the Year. How did you react to that one? Oh, I was perfectly fine. I thought Defensive Player of the Year should have easily been me or Myles. I mean, you look at the tape, pass or swings. You look at who's getting double teamed or triple teamed. But at the same day, you know, I'm not a sore loser. You know, I thought it should have went to Myles if not me.

And I said that publicly, you know, and it's just simple as that. Myles, you look at the Titans game alone and no offense, but T.J. played the Titans. Did you see two Titans following T.J. Watt? Did you see, like, they're following him all across the line?

Like, people could say whatever they want, but at the end of the day, the film does not lie. Like, his presence is way more dominant than T.J. Watt and that's just the reality of it. So if you had to rank five guys in the NFL in terms of who gets to the quarterback the best, you know, and what you guys do, how would you kind of rank them then, one through five? I think I'm probably the best pure speed pass rusher, but if you're going off defensive ends, like, or, like, run and everything, you can label that, but you're talking about pure pass rusher. I would say if you look at my win rate and I was the best one this year, so it would be me, and I would say Myles, and I would say Max, and I would say Nick Bosa, and then I would say... Not T.J. I mean, look at the stats. Like, that's one thing, like, the stats don't lie. He was not top. I think he might have been fifth or sixth.

Alex Highsmith, I think, had a better pass rusher and a more double team rate than T.J. Watt, if you really want to beat statistically. Like, this isn't my stuff. Like, I'm not just pulling this out my ass.

Like, look at the stats. So the only thing I'm just going to say about this is I just know when you say something like this, what the reaction is going to be. People are going to think that you and T.J. Watt have some beef and stuff like that when you get the Cowboys and the Steelers fan bases all intertwined. There's no beef with you and T.J. Watt.

There's no beef at all. I was just... One thing I hate about the NFL community and NBA community, we just hate when someone else wins. Like, when I lost to T.J., I did not go in and say I got snubbed. I just said I'm going to go to work.

When I lost to Nick Bosa the year after that, I did not say I got snubbed. I just said I'm going to work. Okay, picture this. It's Friday afternoon when a thought hits you. I can spend another weekend doing the same old whatever, or I can hop into my all-new Hyundai Santa Fe and hit the road. With available eight-track all-wheel drive and three-row seating, my whole family can head deep into the wild. Conquer the weekend in the all-new Hyundai Santa Fe. Visit HyundaiUSA.com or call 562-314-4603 for more details. Hyundai, there's joy in every journey.

2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. A peanut butter M&M's production. In a world where Super Bowl winners get the world's admiration and a fancy ring, but the runners-up get nothing, one retired cop returns. That's one retired quarterback. Read the script.

Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll.

The Ring of Comfort, coming soon to a Super Bowl new you. I'm Tony and this is the Tony Kornheiser show. Wow, that makes it sound a bit more serious than it really is. So what exactly is the show about? It's been almost 30 years and I still don't know.

Right now we have some of the best voices in football come on to explain to us what we need to know in the college and pro world and we get weekly picks from a monkey. Do you really need more than that? I might just tell you about my bunker game and the latest failed entry in my quest to find the best coffee ice cream.

No schmutz, please. Listen on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, when, like, the biggest mistake in people is that the saying that someone is not deserving. How poor are you to say someone's not deserving of an award of that magnitude?

It seems like and I listen to your podcast a little bit as Micah Parsons here with us, wrapping up with the Cowboys star on CBS Sports rated as the Zach Gelb show. It seems like you get annoyed a little bit with the coverage surrounding you and surrounding the Cowboys. I mean, honestly, it's not even me like no one was coming at me because I didn't want no more. But if I won the award, they would have said I wasn't deserved.

I didn't deserve it. But I don't just look for my shoes. I look for miles like this man's a human too. Like why isn't everyone supporting this man or congratulating this man? People are shaming him saying he's he wasn't good enough or he like come on, like as people, as humans, like, who are we to do that? And everyone could have an opinion. But if you would have told me that it was you, it was Miles, even if it was TJ or Max Crosby, I can't really argue it. Yeah, like like and we don't appreciate like we don't we just don't appreciate it. Like you'll never get as many as good rushers as you have in the league right now as the five that you could put me, TJ, Miles, Max, Nick, whoever, like that is hard to do in this league.

Like think about like there was a point where people were just dominant league. Now we're like, who's going to be the guy this year? Who do you think wins on Sunday, by the way?

It's a toss up. I think it's going to be a very close game. I think it's going to be a three to six point game. And I think this this will be very cliche, but I remember I don't know if it's going to be this high scoring, but Super Bowl 52 between the Patriots and the Eagles, it was offensive explosion.

And then ultimately at the end, Brandon Graham got to Tom Brady and forced the football out. To me, it's coming down to who makes that turnover against Brock and I think the fourth. I think if you look at every year of the Super Bowl is it was an offensive game last year. I think this one is going to be a more of a defensive game. I think we're going to get more of a Rams Patriots game. Gotcha. So low scoring.

I think it's only a low scoring game. Tell me what you're doing today with big brothers, big sisters. Yeah, I'm with big brothers, big sisters. We're trying to find 10,000 mentors and you could go sign up right now at www dot B big now dot org. We're partnering with the NFL called the big draft campaign is huge.

We need everyone's support. Man, you got to think about the mentors. I believe I'm a great mentor for my youth.

And when I go back to my city, I do free camps. We got to remember how can we change our generation? How can we change the lives that's next? You know, eventually 10 years from now, there's going to be another guy on CBS.

Probably. I hope you're still here. Hey, I'm only 29.

You can't give me the exact quickly. Well, we just never will mentor people. I need like 15, 20 years left in this Micah. In 10 years, there might be another Micah. And if you remember anything, big wit, what did he do? He's at that boys and girls club. That kid remember?

He's like, man, you sat down and talked to me. You changed my life when he gave a speech. I think that's what it's all about, right? We can make that impact. And you don't have to just be an NFL player to make an impact on someone's life.

There was a guy named coach him that made the biggest impact on my life and just always told me I would be great. I could do anything like it's just the simple things in life, the simple wordings and anyone can do it. So go to www dot B big now dot org and go change someone's life. Hey, we'll make a deal when you retire. You could come co host with me. I won't piss you off that much. And then when your son's a big time superstar, we'll get them on the show. All right.

Sounds good. A peanut butter M&M's production in a world where Superbowl winners get the world's admiration and a fancy ring. But the runners up get nothing. One retired cop return. That's one retired quarterback. Read the script.

Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll. The Ring of Comfort coming soon to a Super Bowl new you. Okay, picture this.

It's Friday afternoon when a thought hits you. I can spend another weekend doing the same old whatever or I can hop into my all new Hyundai Santa Fe and hit the road with available H track all wheel drive and three row seating. My whole family can head deep into the wild conquered the weekend in the all new Hyundai Santa Fe. Visit Hyundai usa.com or call 562-314-4603 for more details. Hyundai, there's joy in every journey.

2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. I'm Tony and this is the Tony Kornheiser show. Well, that makes it sound a bit more serious than it really is. So what exactly is the show about? It's been almost 30 years and I still don't know.

Right now we have some of the best voices in football come on to explain to us what we need to know in the college and pro world and we get weekly picks from a monkey. Do you really need more than that? I might just tell you about my bunker game of the latest failed entry in my quest to find the best coffee ice cream. No schmutz, please. Listen on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.