Parsons: Bullies "Taking Lunch Money" Has To End

[john van brocklin]

Yeah, I do. parsons wants to play. And when the coaches pulled him, he didn’t go back in.

We just view it differently. It’s ok.

Fair enough my fellow Cowboy fan.
Enjoy the game.

 

[ghst187]

I love this guy. You would think most professional athletes would share that sentiment, but as we all know sadly that's not the case. I'm just glad this guy is a Dallas Cowboy. Keep doing what you doing young man, I recall Michael Irvin telling Jimmy Johnson which players should stay and which players are just collecting a paycheck. Parsons is definitely the leader of this defense.

Bless his heart, he still thinks it’s about winning football games and a championship….

 

[CouchCoach]

I can appreciate that, that's very unselfish of you.
A lot of zoners dont read the other forums.
I know most here would want to know so they could be praying for you and giving to whatever support they can.

I know that because I see the evidence in every thread started in the OTZ concerning a hardship a member may be having. Right now, we have a member whose son has been in a motorcycle accident and is in a coma, another going through a divorce after 40 years and another fighting what I am.

That, my friend, is where you see the quality of the people of this site. That's where all arguments stop and nothing but support comes out and if anyone here hasn't visited the OTZ and experienced the human side of our great Zone, you are missing something. That's where you discover what you assumed about a member because of reading debate changes and you see the quality and humanity of that person.

We are sports site to be sure but well beyond that, we are a community.

 

[john van brocklin]

I know that because I see the evidence in every thread started in the OTZ concerning a hardship a member may be having. Right now, we have a member whose son has been in a motorcycle accident and is in a coma, another going through a divorce after 40 years and another fighting what I am.

That, my friend, is where you see the quality of the people of this site. That's where all arguments stop and nothing but support comes out and if anyone here hasn't visited the OTZ and experienced the human side of our great Zone, you are missing something. That's where you discover what you assumed about a member because of reading debate changes and you see the quality and humanity of that person.

We are sports site to be sure but well beyond that, we are a community.

Agree a 100%

 

[AsthmaField]

Fair enough my fellow Cowboy fan.
Enjoy the game.

You too my man…

 

[CowboysDrew]

You said you wished the coaches preached stopping the run. I said nothing about Mr. Parsons.

You said it. Not me.

I said nothing of the sort nor could it even be construed as such in the most wild and extreme analysis of what anyone said.

I said that I am glad Parsons called out the team for its sometimes lack of toughness. That he directly said that the team needs to stop letting the opponent take its lunch money.

That is something I am 100% behind, and I feel, rightly or wrongly that that's been an attitude that's been lacking. Many of us have pointed that out in the Phillips/Garrett era. It's persisted to last year when the 49ers bashed the Cowboys in the mouth and took their lunch money.

Of course the Cowboys coaches want the run stopped, but do you feel they've instilled a sense of toughness in many of the years since Parcells?

If you feel this team is one that is resilient and can get punched in the mouth and get up and respond, that's an interesting take. I respect you for having it but I don't really agree.

This team has had a sense of entitlement, as Parsons pointed out, that has rarely been dissuaded and it leads them to "Eat the cheese". At least this is what I feel and there are a lot out there that do.

That's what Parsons was talking about. Not just "Stop the run".