It’s become common in some online circles for articles regarding a person’s comments on a given subject to appear under a clickbait-y headline suggesting that so-and-so “breaks his silence” about whatever the issue may be.
The technique implies that the person has been silent for an extended stretch. Usually, that’s not the case. It’s just more likely to garner a click.
On Wednesday, Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons literally broke 17 days of complete and total silence about the team’s 48-32 loss at home to the Packers in the wild-card round of the playoffs.
Parsons failed to address reporters after the game, despite league rules. The next day, when players routinely speak to reporters while cleaning out their lockers for the offseason, Parsons also didn’t speak. He reserved his remarks to the Wednesday edition of his podcast, The Edge with Micah Parsons.
“It’s that you lose the way you do and at home,” Parsons said, via CBSSports.com. “We had talked about how much [better] we had played at home, how much it stood for us to be at home and then to go like that at home was completely embarrassing and unacceptable. I couldn’t even look at that loss or feel any type of way because of how embarrassed I felt It took me a while to even show my face in public. I disappeared completely.”
Indeed he did. The league’s longstanding requirement for players to be available after games aims to get fresh, raw reactions to whatever happened on the field: good, bad, or ugly.
For the Cowboys, it was both bad and ugly. And, to use Parsons’s words, it was embarrassing and unacceptable.
Parsons also had a recommendation for the front office, along with a pointed critique.
“I hope that we go out and get the players we’re missing because we didn’t do that this year,” Parsons said.
Do you hear that, Jerry Jones? One of your best players thinks you failed to get the players the team was missing to get to where they’re trying to go.
In a roundabout way, that attitude helps Jones, as he tries to…
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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Publish date : 2024-02-01 04:20:44
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