Micah Parsons explains devastating feeling from playoff loss

Micah Parsons doesn’t live well with losses, especially the gut punches that end a season. So imagine the despair he felt as he walked off the field in San Francisco, after a 19-12 defeat at the hands of the 49ers.

And to add to his misery, the same team ended Dallas’ seasons for Parsons’ first two years in the league. Just Brutal. He likened it to a heart attack. It’s obviously fueling him for 2023. Parsons is so lively in training camp that coach Mike McCarthy has called him out for getting too close to quarterback Dak Prescott.

Parsons talked about all this during a recent appearance on The Pivot Podcast. It was after a training camp practice in Oxnard, Calif. And it didn’t take much to push him back to a late January day in San Fran.

“It ain’t really hit me till we hit the locker room,” Parsons said. “The thing that people don’t realize like that team will never be the same again. The same guys, the same coaches, will never be the same again. And like I was so devastated, realizing like, I’ll never talk or hang around some of these people again.”

Days after the game, the Cowboys parted ways with George Edwards, Parsons’ coach. Parsons mentioned that as well.

“Once we broke out in meetings, I never talked to George Edwards again. I never got to say to him how much I appreciate you promoting me and helping me as a young player, staying on me like that.”

Micah Parsons said loss ‘crushes you’ with ‘regret’

And there were others he remembered. “I never got to say thank you to the people across the room who helped me and gave me advice. And you know that that feeling right there, that crushes you, bro. Like there’s no feeling like like feeling like you let people down. And that regret, too. I think about all the plays … like every play, that there are just certain plays I think about, I did my job, I wish I just did this.”

He added: “you know you live with that for so long. If you are really competitive, everyone’s not built like that. But me, like that weighs on me, bro. That’s like a little heart attack.”

After the game, Micah Parsons even had to contend with some day-after, social-media trash talking from Deebo Samuel.

Micah Parsons replied to Deebo’s IG post 😬

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— 49ers on NBCS (@NBCS49ers) January 23, 2023

The Cowboys are prepping for their preseason opener. It’s Saturday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, an AFC playoff team from a year ago. It’s unclear how much of the San Francisco angst Micah Parsons will take into the game at AT&T Stadium. He’s not going to see much action, if at all.

He admits he read all the negative created by the loss to the 49ers loss. The Cowboys haven’t made it to an NFC championship game since 1996. So there are nearly three decades worth of frustration vented by Cowboys fans and the critics.

“All of that disrespect, bro, I bookmarked everything everyone said, bro,” Micah Parsons said. “And I just saved it.”