Micah Parsons says difference between old and new school way of thinking may have existed

Micah Parsons touched on a potential old school and new school way of thinking in terms of the Dallas Cowboys.

There is a single game remaining on the 2024 NFL season in Super Bowl LIX and hopefully we do not have to live another entire offseason where the Philadelphia Eagles are world champions. Please, Kansas City Chiefs. We are asking for help. Again.

Obviously the NFL world is fixated on Sunday’s big game but every team save Kansas City and Philadelphia is already working on 2025 and beyond. We are all fascinated as to what the Dallas Cowboys are going to look like under a new head coach in Brian Schottenheimer, and in the coming months we will get more and more clues that will help us be able to put together a general idea.

It goes without saying that a big part of what will impact how the Cowboys look in 2025 is free agency and how active the team is throughout it. History suggests that Dallas will shop the bargain-bin, but there will be roster turnover that they will have to account for at some point so they need to have a plan.

In terms of roster turnover, pass rusher Micah Parsons offered some interesting perspective on this idea during an appearance with ESPN Radio on Wednesday. Parsons touched on the idea of the team resetting (having a new head coach makes that statement fair, obviously) but also mentioned something interesting relative to an imbalance between two groups of players.

“Honestly I think it’s good that we’re kind of resetting. We’re resetting when it comes to certain players and things… so we can just focus on building the culture. I just think it was kind of an imbalance of players between the old school way and the youth way and I think it gives leeway for guys like me to step in and kind of take charge and lead.”

When Parsons mentioned resetting my mind went to the subject of the head coach as indicated up above. But Parsons went on to mention “players and thing” and then noted the imbalance between the old school and youth ways within the team.

Without trying to be dramatic here, what could Parsons be saying? The Cowboys are possibly on the verge of watching players like Zack Martin and DeMarcus Lawrence leave either in free agency or to outright retirement. They are the most “old school way” players that we could apply this line of thought to. It is fair to say that the reverence they commanded may have inhibited someone like Parsons from “leading” so to speak, but it is an interesting comment nonetheless.

There is no question that the Cowboys need Parsons to be a leader as he is the best player on the team; however, if that is the case then they need to take care of the financial side of all of this and make sure that he doesn’t miss any part of the offseason due to any hypothetical holdout.

Long story short, it’s time for the Cowboys front office to get to work.