Micah Parsons speaks out about leaving field early, postgame emotions after loss to Cincinnati Bengals
Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons was visibly and emotionally wrecked after his team’s game against Cincinnati this weekend, with those emotions spilling over into the locker room.
Parsons was particularly distraught over the injury to linebacker DeMarvion Overshown, which was a serious ailment.
Tears flowed in the locker room.
But, amidst some backlash over his reaction, which included leaving the field early, Parsons is speaking out about why he reacted that way and how he doesn’t plan to change who he is based on the criticism.
“The frustration is and why I was upset, not only am I the most and complete competitor, I don’t think there’s anyone in the world except for some of the maybe, top three greatest players of all time, like MJ, maybe RIP Kobe Bryant, but I think I’m in their category of competitiveness,” Parsons said on The Edge. “I don’t think there’s anyone more competitive than me, man. And it’s heart-breaking for me because I promised y’all Cowboys Nation that we would make a run.”
The Dallas Cowboys aren’t quite eliminated yet, but it will take serious work to make the playoffs currently sitting at 5-8 on the season.
Micah Parsons knows it.
“I was doing everything I can in my possible manner to make sure we did that,” Parsons said. “And I wanted to put my teammates in that situation. I wanted to win real bad for our unit, but I wanted to win real bad for the ownership, the fans, like it’s so much more.
“I’m carrying this chip on my shoulder where I want greatness for everyone. I don’t want to lose at home, and the fact that we lost and we could have won that game, that killed me, man. Like I want to win so bad. All I know how to do is try to find ways to win and impact the game. And sometimes when you come up short it’s a factor where you can’t really control all of it. It sucks.”
What was as challenging for Micah Parsons as anything was seeing the reaction from people.
Many were legitimately upset about his post-game behavior, though it was just Parsons being Parsons. You can’t separate the great player from the person.
“It just kind of sucked the life out of me and, you know, I just feel like, you know, it’s like damned if I do, damned if I don’t,” Micah Parsons said.
“Plenty of fans, if I went over there and I was all laughing with the competition after we lost like that, a lot of people would be mad. I walk off the field because the game’s over and people are mad. It’s just like, you know, you can’t make everyone happy, but I would just say in that specific moment, it was deeper than that. We’re trying to make a run. We’re trying to make playoffs and kind of to lose that one — we needed that one.”
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