​

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton are joined by SB Nation’s RJ Ochoa to discuss the latest in the Micah Parsons and Dallas Cowboys saga.

I was stunned this weekend to see the laying on the trainer’s table.

Advertisement

What was your reaction from everything you’ve seen for it to get to that public of a, of a point?

Honestly, um, you know, we’re so deep down the rabbit hole that, you know, it doesn’t really faze me, the fact that Micah is on the trainer’s table, whatever.

And I feel like, not to minimize what the final preseason game is, obviously, there are a number of players fighting for roster spots.

It’s a very serious thing, but it is pretty normal for players to be chill, for lack of a better word, to, you know, be eating sunflower seeds, drinking Gatorade, wearing hats, all sorts of different directions, towels and things like that.

Advertisement

So, this felt like a cousin of that to me.

It just so happened to be the day after Jerry Jones went on Fox and Michael Irvin’s show and sat down with Stephen A, which amplified the intensity around this whole situation.

I’m curious, just, you know, your boots on the ground perspective of this situation.

How do Cowboys fans feel?

Do they feel like Jerry is the one that should be making concessions?

Are they getting upset with Micah?

What is the overall vibe in Dallas?

I think, you know, Jason said that you guys have been talking a lot about the Cowboys.

People feel like that’s the goal, um, you know, people feel like the fourth wall broke in that sense a very long time ago and I, I think that there’s a a sense of, you know, Micah is a bit at fault here, whether that’s for the informal meeting or for the fact that he won’t take whatever the Cowboys are reportedly offering him.

Advertisement

But ultimately, I think the court of public opinion works against the Cowboys in this regard.

Micah first became eligible for an extension in March of last year.

Uh, so the fact that the Cowboys are pushing this and pushing this and pushing this until the 11th hour, again, following doing it with Dak Prescott for a second time.

A third time, a fourth time, you could argue with that individually.

CeeDee Lamb, I mean, there’s one common denominator here, and I think that the sense of the fan base is that it’s the front office and that they do it for attention.

There was a conspiracy theory that they were doing it to, in a weird way, promote their Netflix documentary.

Advertisement

And, and people are just kind of tired of the non-football elements of this football team.

The whole thing is sadly very predictable.

And there will be a sense of peace, I think that people feel that it is over and that Mike is going to play.

But I think that the whole phenomenon is just the latest example for people.

You know, this is Super Bowl 60 this year, and at the time of Super Bowl 30 as the documentary is proof positive, the Cowboys had won 5 of them.

They had appeared in 8 of the 30 Super Bowls at that moment in time, and we’re about to double that entire time frame.

So there’s this weird symbolism in that sense of this year, and that it will begin with the same antics, the same same silliness, the same pots, during the same toxicity that has made them the most valuable professional sports franchise in the world.

Advertisement

I think, you know, we all like reality TV.

I love The Challenge on MTV.

I love Survivor.

I love things like that.

But you know what wins Emmys?

Succession, Game of Thrones, like those are the types of shows that people are expecting the Cowboys to be.

They’re sick of just the Real Housewives, Bravo-level drama that is this franchise on a day-to-day basis.