Micah Parsons: Always Been My Style | Dallas Cowboys 2024

Micah Parsons: Always Been My Style | Dallas Cowboys 2024

was that trip what was that trip about so the trip was uh obviously I did it last year but we go International we have camps all we did camps all across Europe but this year um we did it all across uh kind of we did one in uh Shanghai um China and we had a big one in Tokyo and that’s what Flex Works um we’re just trying to spread the brand of football and then there’s a lot of kids who are you know parents are in the army so it’s good for them to like see us and like they experience is great because obviously football’s not so big down there so you know I think there always an amazing opportunity to do that Su wrestling’s big yeah what you think about that n sumo’s legit like I so at first uh I was like man I’m going to do that like I’m I’mma hop in there and so they have tears and the tear that I had was like you could put it like as if he was like in like the kid was 17 out still so he’s a high schooler really and uh there’s like tears like so there’s black Bel and the white belts and I could show you a video of the white belts and they were completely different so imagine a a a zero Tech and a center doing in the Oklahoma drill every play without pads and it’s like so violent and they was like you still want to do I was like nope that’s a walking concussion I was like you guys get a lot of concussion it’s like yeah but it’s just a part of it I was like n it’s not part of my sport you know I was like so consumo wrestling is a completely different their techniques their uh style is so mind bogging like they try to showed me a couple things and I just fell completely like uh very challenging had my legs shaking and I was like man I need to do more legs they do legs every day so you know hitting them’s like a brick wall really so I think they’ll be if they wouldn’t be good offensive lineman because they can’t move that well but you put them in the zero Tech say don’t move oh man that’ be great so I’m recruiting some as we speak you Haven been you ‘t been here as frequently as others what was the thought process behind that I mean I think that’s always been kind of my and uh I think I really haven’t been here since like what my rookie season so I don’t think it’s anything new I think I always had like my own way of doing things um and you know defense is defense you know I’m pretty much caught up on everything I went over it Paul was meeting up with me um The Run game coordinator so I really wasn’t missing anything so I feel like I was just getting better getting stronger getting uh faster you know just doing my things and what I what mik does in the offseason Russell SU so I just have fun but a lot of people are are obviously there’s talking points about the fact that you do have a defensive Court a new defensive coordinator here and the value of just in terms of leadership too getting around the young guys what’s your push back on that yeah you know I think the more years you have in the more you understand that there’s also like the business side to it and uh you know whether I like it or not there’s rookies or people I came with that’s not even here anymore you know and I think that’s what campus for I mean there was a time where Aaron Donald didn’t even go to camp and he won defense player of the year and he realized team in playoffs like are we forgetting these times like he wasn’t you talking about the best defensive player wasn’t even in uh camp and we’re in mini camp voluntary at that so you know C would say something that’s mandatory so I’m just looking at a time for my body to heal I’m playing I’m my undersized rusher who’s gets banged up every year so I’m just letting my body heal I’m just trying to grow strength and uh really just get ready for the year in offseason you had said we still in offseason you talked about chemistry there was some issues with chemistry and then you not being here as frequent some would say well aren’t you contradicting yourself when you talk about chemistry within this team well I would say you ever watch Remember the Titans we’re going to be in Oxen a very very long time there’s going to be a lot of chemistry in that building and I think that’s really the time where you see everything like it’s hard to really teach someone without pads or true contact or hand points like it’s just not realistic we can’t even touch each other we’re gonna lose a draft pick or something like that like it’s just it’s it’s outrageous not even really uh I think right now it’s just more technique it’s a lot of walkthroughs right now nothing to anything so for my position where I’m at it’s a lot of individual and I could be doing a lot of individual by myself or my trainer have you talked to any veterans about this is the way you should do it or not do it like do you have mentors that you’ve sort of said what should I be doing with my body like where does this come from well understanding the business side of it too you know your body this is all I have this is all I have to offer to Cowboys you know before you sign a contract you go through a physical before you do anything before you even on a team you got to go through a physical like this is your like you know this is your engine like this is where all my Equity lies I have no equity outside of this to offer them so at the end you got to understand you know um availability is the best stability and if I’m not available when it really matters because I’m banged up or my body’s not healing property or I didn’t get all the rehab and treatment that I need to be successful then you know that’s on me it’s not on them they’re just finding next to me you know so push back what if other teammates started to do that I think some do some people still do uh they still go to other trainings outside of this they still do that like um you know it’s a normality really I think I don’t think one person just uses the team trainers and St like that the building relationship part how is that within the locker room and that kind of thing cuz when you talk about chemistry we also think about that I mean you don’t just build relationship in a locker room I mean me and Chanty just went to Columbia together Sam was there too I mean I don’t think a locker room is the only way I build chemistry with my teammates now you talking about rookies I mean I come in here and I sit in a CB tub and I talk to some of the rookies like just because I’m actively not here at the deated time doesn’t mean I don’t come in Michael you talk about the business business side with CD handling his business you had him on the podcast you guys talked about it just how do you kind of view his situation oh I mean c he about to hit the brink truck he about to get his you know uh but I I can’t think of someone more deserving you talking about hand in hand I think CD’s you know the best receiver in the league if not if you ever want to argue with top three but in know my eyes uh sitt his mindset how he comes every day I think he deserves every penny so I’m going to be super excited for him for whatever his contract Lays out but uh it’s going to be a nice contract for sure agent what would you pay him more or less oh I mean if I’m his agent CD’s getting about 36 but I’m not his agent I don’t think you know numbers aside I don’t know obviously what goes on what’s the combative arguments on who on who or whatever it is that may be but um I mean if Jefferson said it I think you could argue CD is better however you want to put it but um CD should be right there with Trum coming for you I mean one day time will tell you know I can’t really put a timetable on M all I got to do is keep getting sacks and you know that stuff’s going to handle itself as players do you guys kind of respect when a player is holding out to handle his business in the way that he yeah you understand that business aspect you know why would CD come over here and pull a hamstring or you know God forbid anything just stupid happens and that ruins his equity in his body that’s his engine you know but CD’s out getting better you know I got CD on everything I know how hard he’s training um he’s super excited for this year just let the numbers handle numbers and he’ll be back what about your conversations with Coach McCarthy this off SE having been here a little bit how do you feel like your communication with him oh me and Coach McCarthy are super well uh we met for an hour or so just the other week I think people don’t understand how much more I think McCarthy’s invested into me on becoming a leader and uh what he thinks I value the team and where we’re headed uh so I think me and McCarthy is really good and I actually value our conversations and our relationship growing more as he’s been here and I think that’s very powerful to me cuz you know uh obviously I think he’s kind of took on the challenge of when Dan left to kind of be that voice for me and I really appreciate that does it disappoint you at all that the team hasn’t done more this offseason you know you mentioned on your podcast after the season ended about being all in and making all these big moves does that disappoint you at all uh it doesn’t disappoint me you kind of if you kind of figure out how the money goes and how the contract goes you kind of understand that business side I think CD takes up the value of two or three players you know that’s you talking about 30 plus million a year that’s you know two or three guys so you know uh if you do that how can you afford to pay CD lamb you know and you know that goes on for other guys potentially so I think the mindset I have is we have seven all Pros or you know whatever the count may be it might be more might be less or we got at least three guys I know can be all pro I think Ferguson could be a all proo guy um you know I think a lot of guys are going to have breakout years so you know I think that plays a account to it too you know Tyler Smith I think he’ll be first team all pro this year and you gotta think about him towards the future so when you talk about all these guys it just leads to say hey when are the other guys going to step up and be better for the team in the old days they would say you need to come to everything right all the voluntary whatever even though it was voluntary you know you think that’s changing with this generation of players I don’t think it’s changing but I think some people definitely get paid to be here and I don’t think people take that account either like you know some people get paid a whole bunch of money to be here and some don’t and I’m not one of them so that that chatter of the old school mentality uh everybody should be there mik should be there outside the building do you does that bother you people say that I mean people say things about the podcast and now I’m a president how that look you know people always got a perspective let you let people have a perspective you guys have your perspective of how the team building and I have my perspective how it’s building um you guys have perspectives of who we should sign I have perspectives of who we sign everyone’s due to their own perspective whether we like it or not so um shout out to freedom of speech you talked about how Poker Face a little bit more especially during the draft you think you need a poker face n i I don’t need a poker face you know I like I like like I like what we’re doing I would say that you know I think uh just being out here today I definitely think people are going to be very I think surprised how good we really are you you talked about uh um the way your body feels and you know you get beat up during the season are you back now to feeling 100% And if so when did you get to that point how long did it take you after the season bro it really takes me months to really get back you know it takes me months to even hit the field like I don’t hit the field in to me like I really take time to build my ligaments back up get a lot of PT uh do a lot of muscle endurance things to get my muscles back you got to trade your muscles to get back working properly and fluently if you do anything about uh training so I don’t want to hit the field until about May June anyway Weight Wise are you the same as last year is that the goal weightwise are you trying to be the same as yeah I don’t think I should pass 250 I’m super explosive I think I was way stronger I think I’ve you know showed a lot of things that people thought I couldn’t do and uh I think people will even be more surprised this year what are your early impressions of Mike Z honestly man me and Zim probably said a total of 20 words to each other yeah he’s he’s a he’s a very quiet person and all I keep hearing from the coaches like Zim likes it this way I was like well I like it this way like you know so I can’t wait to have like my true like sit down with them I think it’ll be pretty cool cuz obviously old school mindset old school mentality um but you know I think he has a lot of great players but he ain’t never have a mic before so um it’ll be fun and I think it’s going to be unique there’s a lot of similarities on things how he used me with how uh Dan used me in the system but he has more Twix in terms of how he’s going want to set things up and also there’s some things that I got to get used to too uh you know it’s going to be a compromisable relationship there’s going things he’s like I’m not going to give on I don’t give on that’s a part of the whole regime you know it’s going to be an interesting Camp yeah it will longamp a Long Camp Long Camp we’re down there to like the 24th it’s going to be a full month this time it’s not going to be that two three weeks days longer you got a scrimmage with the Rams yeah it’s going to be a very long Kamp

Linebacker Micah Parsons is now in the building after foregoing voluntary workouts but shares his thoughts on not being concerned about chemistry issues and more.

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