'FREE ME!' Micah Parsons' Dallas Cowboys 'Frustration' Addressed by Coach Dan Quinn
FRISCO - There is a fine line between "frustration'' over falling short of achieving personal goals and "selfishness'' over obsessing about those goals.
And right now, Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons is walking that fine line, as if its a tight rope ... with his beloved coach Dan Quinn now working to operate as the safety net below.
In Dallas' massive 49-17 win over the New York Giants on Sunday, pretty much every single thing went right for the Cowboys as they moved to 6-3.
One thing that did not, statistically speaking? In an oddity, Parsons, maybe the game's best defensive player, did not record a sack or even a tackle in the game.
And afterwards, the star edge rusher took to social media to post a pair of cryptic messages about the game.
He first wrote, "I ain't been this speechless in a long time!"
Micah later added, tying himself to teammate Sam Williams and his recent "Free Me!'' Twitter rants that he, too, wants to be "freed.''
Sidebar: Backup Williams recently posted a photo of a caged dog, clearly asking to be "freed'' to play more. He later denied that that was intend ... which seems to have been a fib (as we noted at the time) because now he's reposting the concept, this time saying, "No need to free me I’ll break the mf cage.'' ...
At which time Micah chimed in, "Free me, then.''
The man in charge of herding these cats is defensive coordinator Quinn, who on Monday noted that the Giants game-planned to keep Parsons from being a game-wrecker and spun it thusly ...
"That's any competitor, right?'' Quinn said. "You always want to make an impact, and sometimes his impact is other people's chances to get things because of the attention that goes his way. Any competitor can get frustrated by that. There have been games like that and there will be more like that."
Indeed. And when a "competitor'' gets "frustrated'' in a way that could be construed as "unhappy,'' maybe he should keep in in-house rather than post it for the world to see?
"I think it's hard," Quinn said. "It's hard for anybody to be in that space because what you're capable of is exceptional. .. There are times where it's easier to deal with and times where it's not. (Sunday) was one of those where I imagine it was harder."
Parsons' presence on the field as someone worthy of double- and triple-teams makes him a force, stats aside, because as Quinn notes, it allows teammates to shine. (Dallas recorded five sacks and the Giants never did convert a third down.)
But Parsons' presence on social media? The Cowboys' entertainingly vocal superstar would be wise to measure whether what he says there is a "force'' for good ... or for something otherwise.
