{"id":53920,"date":"2024-05-30T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T22:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=53920"},"modified":"2024-05-30T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T22:20:33","slug":"mike-mccarthy-laments-micah-parsons-missed-opportunities-as-star-skips-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/mike-mccarthy-laments-micah-parsons-missed-opportunities-as-star-skips-otas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McCarthy laments Micah Parsons\u2019 missed opportunities as star skips OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike McCarthy has absolutely no doubts that Micah Parsons<\/a><\/strong> will be ready to go when training camp comes around. That said, the Dallas Cowboys<\/a><\/strong> head coach would definitely prefer that the star edge rusher be with the team for OTAs. <\/p>\n

Parsons returned to the Star on Wednesday after spending most of the Cowboys\u2019 offseason program away from the team doing personal workouts, but even in his return, he didn\u2019t practice. The former first-round pick arrived in Frisco for his media obligations like photographing headshots and recording pre-game animations. Still, he didn\u2019t stick around to hit the field with his teammates.<\/p>\n

Though McCarthy has been supportive of Parsons\u2019 time away, like during his overseas trip to China and Japan, the skipper admitted Thursday that the defender is missing opportunities to work, especially with new defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMicah looks to be in really good shape, but you know, it\u2019s a new defense, so we\u2019ve got work to do,\u201d McCarthy said<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s engaged. We\u2019ll be ready when it\u2019s time. I have confidence in him.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI think anytime you have a chance to be together it\u2019s an opportunity to improve whether it\u2019s in the mental realm, the physical realm, which is limited obviously at this time of year, and the emotional connection and so forth. It\u2019s a long year,\u201d he added. \u201cTraining camp is really the heightened focus for all of that, but yeah, it\u2019s definitely an opportunity that\u2019s been missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zimmer excited to work with \u2018dynamic\u2019 Parsons<\/h2>\n

New defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer is excited to get to work with the star who accumulated 40.5 regular-season sacks in three seasons. The Cowboys assistant opened up about Parsons and his special set of skills last week.<\/p>\n

Despite his dominance, Zimmer understands the trick to make Parsons the most effective edge rusher he can be is how he moves him around and the matchups he creates week to week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were sitting up there again this morning talking about other things we can do with him,\u201d Zimmer\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday. \u201cHe\u2019s such a dynamic player that, I said this the other day: \u2018Offenses are always going to know where he\u2019s at.\u2019 They\u2019re going to turn protections to him, have the back help chip no matter what it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a lot of the games he played last year that I watched, the offenses had a good scheme where they get two tight ends on him and all those things. So, we\u2019re going to obviously move him around, do different things with him, but we\u2019re going to use him some ways where we\u2019re getting the protection turned the way we want it turned and able to win on the other side. Sometimes, we\u2019re going to try to overload a protection where he gets a one-on-one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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