Micah Parsons and a ho-hum draft

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plymkr said:
I was meh on Parsons. To be honest I was pulling for Slater as our pick came up. I was okay with the pick but was concerned about the "character issues", him not playing last year and not wanting a LBer as our first rounder. Well I was wrong on draft day about all of it and pumped he's here. His play has been phenomenal. His behavior has been above reproach and he's the catalyst of the defensive culture change.

Arguably the best thing to happen to this team in a long time. I'm ecstatic about him. Generational talent.
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Slater was my second choice and would have been a great pick. I personally felt a D fix was critical.
 
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Corso said:
To give some unwanted props:
@AsthmaField was banging the table for Parsons from the very beginning and was giddy when the team selected him and all of his strategies and desires to use #11 have been put to use to his wishes and the fruits are laid bear.

Here's to you and Dan Quinn buddy.

Mucho respecto.
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Many of us were standing up on the table screaming about how good this kid is. Nice to be right occasionally. Lol.
 
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Parsons is one of those rare, immediate impact great players. He’s clearly a stud and long term star. The rest of the draft will take some time to judge.

Kelvin Joseph hasn’t really played yet. Josh Ball has been injured. Osa and Golston have certainly flashed well at times but it’s too early to know their long term impact. Simi Fehoko hasn’t been great….

All that to say Parsons is a home run clearly. Osa and Golston look very promising. But most of the rest of this draft, like all drafts will have to wait to be judged overall.
 
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AsthmaField said:
Great pick. He’s super gifted athletically, and just country strong. What I like though is he very instinctive in some of the things he does on the field. He doesn’t have a lot of experience and he has a lot left to learn… but he’s making great plays already because of his abilities and football mind.

He’s going to be something else once he gets some more experience. He’s already playing like a pro bowler. He’s going to be phenomenal soon.
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Oh hell yeah....he's a slightly smaller, stealth version of D.Ware which is good enough for me.
 
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manster4ever said:
Oh hell yeah....he's a slightly smaller, stealth version of D.Ware which is good enough for me.
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He’s a little smaller and a good bit faster than Ware. He does have a little bit of that Lawrence Taylor attitude, which goes a long way on a defense.

While Ware is high character, he was missing that mad dog demeanor that LT and Parsons has.

Micah is going to be the very foundation of the Dallas defense. He has everything that I want in an impact defender… both physically and mentally.
 
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I am really amazed that so many of us.... well, let's be honest... me... were kind of mediocre on the Parsons pick. He fit the category of "solid draft pick" "sensible draft pick" "high floor kind of guy" You know, kind of like... we'll its our duty to fill the LB spot... so let's find a guy.

He was removed from football for one year, which cast his intensity of the game in doubt.
He was a linebacker, which Dallas has a philosophy against picking high or investing much money at the position.

So many things made Parsons seem like a routine pick... other positions of need were unfilled because other teams grabbed the players that had the flash.

And all of that was so wrong... You look at the Falcons game, where he blows up a double team, getting one pancake block on a guard, and nearly sending the other OL guy to the ground, and makes the TFL on the running back.

He uses his 4.3 speed to embarass the right tackle and explode on the quarterback. Ya remember those sports science episodes? I'd bet his mass and velocity combination is near the top... 240 lbs at 4.39 speed? Vicious... lets be honest, there was a bit of luck in drafting Parsons, especially since we traded down to get him. His redraft would be top 5, easy, and some teams might look at him as a #1 overall in a few years.

So glad that he's a Dallas Cowboy.
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You're right, and almost everyone in the Zone wanted someone else. I was right about this pick and a couple of others that were also right were @Sheepherder and @cowboyec. Some people's analysis of why they didn't want him, and anger driven rants after having drafted him was comedy enough to carry me through 'til the season opener.

They're going to build the whole defense around this animal for the next decade.
 

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When we traded down, I was OK with Parsons. I really thought we would need Slater more. I was one of those people who bought into the negative media about him. I had convinced myself that he probably didn't love the game. I considered him more of a workout phenom than a football player.

Slater would still have been a great pick. But we needed defense SO badly and Parsons is almost exactly opposite of what I thought he was. He comes across as, not just a team player, but a team builder. And the whole "not sure he loves football" idea, that seems just stupid that I even had that idea. The dude doesn't want to miss a single play. He's been begging for more since preseason.
 
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Yeah, whatever. I was before all of y'all on Parsons. Not only that but I told everyone Surtain wouldn't be there at 10 to raucous laughter. What's that saying? He that laughs best, laughs all the way to the bank or something or other. What's that, dog? You need some Money Butt powder? Okay!
 
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MarcusRock said:
Yeah, whatever. I was before all of y'all on Parsons. Not only that but I told everyone Surtain wouldn't be there at 10 to raucous laughter. What's that saying? He that laughs best, laughs all the way to the bank or something or other. What's that, dog? You need some Money Butt powder? Okay!
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AsthmaField said:
Had I known that they were going to use Micah exactly as I had hoped they would, I would have been banging the drum for him even louder.

There were a couple of other guys pushing for Parsons even more than I was though. I worried that they’d just stick him at LB and not be creative with him.

And to be fair… he’s better even than I thought he’d be.

And, BTW, you wield the English language like a Sabre. Kudos to you.
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Your pre/post draft discussions with me discussing the specific impact of a franchise left tackle as compared to a "properly used" rush OR generational multi purpose LT type linebacker were good conversations.

I can appreciate that.

jmo
 
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75boyz said:
Your pre/post draft discussions with me discussing the specific impact of a franchise left tackle as compared to a "properly used" rush OR generational multi purpose LT type linebacker were good conversations.

I can appreciate that.

jmo
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I can talk draft all day long. It is one of my favorite football times of the year. The draft zone is my home from about Feb-April every year.
 
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