Thoughts On Parsons Being Out For Entire Series?

Seven · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Personally, I am not a fan of leaving your best defensive player on the sidelines for an entire series. I'm fine with giving him a couple plays off here and there, but an entire series?

Washington had 1 legit scoring drive Sunday night and it happened to be when Parsons sat for the entire drive.

What are your thoughts on this? I'm hoping that this isn't something we do in the playoffs.

FIFTY- SIX POINTS.......Go somewhere.

MountaineerCowboy · Dec 28, 2021

CowboysFaninHouston said:
I normally don't like when players sit, specially for meaningless games as it tends to throw off the rythm of the team....but if its done in game here and there. even if its for a series then its OK, depending on the game and how its playing out. it was obvious from get go, we will be beating them easily. we had the game well in hand. so them scoring didn't matter as much.

so in this case, I didn't care as much. didn't matter. in a close game... I would be screaming from top of my longs and hopefully not have anything heavy near me to throw at the TV

The game became 21-7 early in the 2nd quarter when Parsons was left out the entire drive.

Looking bad we have the game in hand, but we didn't know that at the time. Especially with the way the offense has been playing.

Yes, hindsight is 20/20, but nothing the past 8 or so week says that game was over.

xwalker · Dec 28, 2021

Aven8 said:
It wasn’t just Parsons. It was Greg’s and Dlaw too on that scoring drive. Wash made it look easy.

DLaw and Gregory were not out for the entire series. They were only out for 3 snaps.

ThatJerryKid · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Personally, I am not a fan of leaving your best defensive player on the sidelines for an entire series. I'm fine with giving him a couple plays off here and there, but an entire series?

Washington had 1 legit scoring drive Sunday night and it happened to be when Parsons sat for the entire drive.

What are your thoughts on this? I'm hoping that this isn't something we do in the playoffs.

The Cowboys played up tempo offense and scored 42 points because of it. You have to rest defensive players when you play fast on offense. The Cowboys have the defensive depth to rotate and keep players fresh. We can go back to ball control clock eating offense and score 20 points per game and have Parsons play every snap if that makes you and everybody else on this forum happy.

Dallasfann · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Do you ever say anything that's not insulting?

I sense a huge lack of actual real social interaction with you. The only people I see that comfortably speaks to people like this on the internet are people that rarely leave their basements.

If insulting another humans living situation and there social life is something that makes you feel better then have at it. It doesn't bother me at all because I'm actually very thick skinned but please be careful doing that casually. It can hurt more sensitive people. Back to what we were discussing. The Cowboys. You obviously have a hard time reading what's happening on the field and again..I apologize that I didn't catch that earlier. I should of seen it when you thought our defense was just as good without Lawrence/Gregory and Gallimore.

CowboysFaninHouston · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
The game became 21-7 early in the 2nd quarter when Parsons was left out the entire drive.

Looking bad we have the game in hand, but we didn't know that at the time. Especially with the way the offense has been playing.

Yes, hindsight is 20/20, but nothing the past 8 or so week says that game was over.

well, sometimes there is a feel for the game coaches and players have during the game...we had an easy time. perhaps McCarthy and Quinn tried to see what they have without him (which obviously we know now). perhaps after the score, they thought, well we can't leave him on the sideline.... I never felt that the game was out of hand in any minute during that game...we were dominating individual matchups throught out and execution was very good.

xwalker · Dec 28, 2021

baltcowboy said:
The WFT moved the ball down the field with ease when Parsons was drinking Gatorade. Come on LVE/Neal, you have to play better.

There was only 1 play on that drive where Parsons replacing LVE or Neal might have mattered.

Parsons pass rushing maybe, but Parsons not playing off-ball LB wasn't the issue.

Maybe Parsons gets to the ball carrier on the TD play but CB Brown was intended to be the force player and needed to force the runner back inside to LVE.

Most of that drive was from 3 plays.
- A desperation heave by Heinicke that resulted in a 48 yard completion despite the WR being double-covered.
- A 15 yard sideline run where Diggs made a terrible decision to go inside the blockers and leave the sideline open.
- A holding penalty on Kearse.

gimmesix · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Personally, I am not a fan of leaving your best defensive player on the sidelines for an entire series. I'm fine with giving him a couple plays off here and there, but an entire series?

Washington had 1 legit scoring drive Sunday night and it happened to be when Parsons sat for the entire drive.

What are your thoughts on this? I'm hoping that this isn't something we do in the playoffs.

I think Parsons would agree with you. And I doubt will do it in the playoffs because games will likely be too close.

Streifenkarl · Dec 28, 2021

CATCH17 said:
Football has become such a marathon that I’m all for it.

17 game seasons are just too many games for these guys so in a situation like Sunday against an awful awful team I don’t mind him being out.

Indeed. I really can't find even the slightest reason for keeping your starters in the game when you've tucked it in already. Makes no sense.

1972COWBOY · Dec 28, 2021

I think the Cowboys were winning.

JBond · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Personally, I am not a fan of leaving your best defensive player on the sidelines for an entire series. I'm fine with giving him a couple plays off here and there, but an entire series?

Washington had 1 legit scoring drive Sunday night and it happened to be when Parsons sat for the entire drive.

What are your thoughts on this? I'm hoping that this isn't something we do in the playoffs.

Maybe he needed a little water and O2. Everyone needs a breather here and there. Came back in and got the sack.

JBond · Dec 28, 2021

Just a guess, but I think mountain and pappy live together.

Doomsday101 · Dec 28, 2021

Cowboys are playing for the long haul not 1 series in a game that was 21-0 at that point. On the season he has played over 80% of the snaps, so giving him a series off with a 21-0 lead even in the 1st in my view is not a big deal. I would add he only played 55% of the snaps in the entire game the fewest snaps on the year. Unless Dallas were to blowout the Cards early on I seriously doubt Parson will only get 55%, fully expect him to see the 80% plus snaps this coming game

Lifetimeboyzfan · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Personally, I am not a fan of leaving your best defensive player on the sidelines for an entire series. I'm fine with giving him a couple plays off here and there, but an entire series?

Washington had 1 legit scoring drive Sunday night and it happened to be when Parsons sat for the entire drive.

What are your thoughts on this? I'm hoping that this isn't something we do in the playoffs.

We won by 42. I think we can afford to get the kid a break in that scenario

MountaineerCowboy · Dec 28, 2021

Lifetimeboyzfan said:
We won by 42. I think we can afford to get the kid a break in that scenario

Hindsight 20/20.

The score was 21-7 after we sat Parsons for a whole series. You can't tell me, with the way the offense has been the past 8 weeks, that you was 100% confident we go on to score 50 points.

JonesBoys · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
Personally, I am not a fan of leaving your best defensive player on the sidelines for an entire series. I'm fine with giving him a couple plays off here and there, but an entire series?

Washington had 1 legit scoring drive Sunday night and it happened to be when Parsons sat for the entire drive.

What are your thoughts on this? I'm hoping that this isn't something we do in the playoffs.

In a close competitive game yes I have a problem. In what was the beginning of a beat down, no.17 games plus playoffs it's smart to be creative with resting players here and there.

MountaineerCowboy · Dec 28, 2021

2288doubletrouble said:
In a close competitive game yes I have a problem. In what was the beginning of a beat down, no.17 games plus playoffs it's smart to be creative with resting players here and there.

We had no idea at the time the game was going to turn out the way it did.

JonesBoys · Dec 28, 2021

MountaineerCowboy said:
We had no idea at the time the game was going to turn out the way it did.

21-0 I'm fine with resting a player for a series.

Trajan · Dec 28, 2021

CouchCoach said:
Just as they did with that 90’s D, I am all in on the coaches making those calls.

Parcells tried to do that with Ware but that never worked out well. He didn’t have the horses Quinn has. He used to call for Taylor on the sideline but he had a real D.

exactly, I was going to say the same. Back in the 90’s the d-line would rotate a lot, makes complete sense, keeps them fresh.

when we are in the playoffs, I expect to see more Parsons and others, but Quinn is doing this 100% right, in my none expert opinion.

Aven8 · Dec 28, 2021

xwalker said:
DLaw and Gregory were not out for the entire series. They were only out for 3 snaps.

The series was 5 plays.

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