LeRoy Butler was on ESPN. He said he told MP not to worry about #11. " Wear #36, my number".
Originally Posted by: wpr
But CB Hadden is currently #36
Heck most of the numbers are taken, unless someone is willing to swap or Parson is willing to buy the number.
Not really good things to hear about a guy getting that much money.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
Parson grew up in Harrisburg and went to Penn State, I certainly have heard some not so friendly stories about Parson and whole he's a great player, I'm not sold on him being a good man.
That being said, that story reeks of Cowboys doing damage control and looking for excuses of why he wasn't good for...
Going in between team meetings? He was asked to play BOTH LB and DE, those are two different meeting rooms, so most guys that are asked to play two different meeting rooms go to different meetings rooms.
As for those curious about why I'm not sold on him being a good man, just stories about extremely talented athlete getting special treatment, leading to entitlement. Including allegedly punching teammates in the locker room, or beating them up without a good reason, and coaches not wanting to enforce consequences, as they want to keep him on the field.
I don't trust Parson the person, that being said, absolutely until this piece, I've heard absolutely no one suggesting he doesn't deeply care about football... and based on what I've heard the opposite is true, he might care about it too much, more than too little.
Parson problems seem to be when he's feeling disrespected, he digs he and demands respect... which sometimes comes in the form of getting physical when he shouldn't, or in this more recent case, he's respect the first four years of the contract, but after that, you NEED to talk with my agent, not with me, only talking to me, or forcing me to play on the 5th year instead of getting me a new deal is disrespectful.
I would be a little bit leery, whenever the times comes that Parson's talent starts slipping and how to beat handle that, might be best to quickly get away rather than let him slowly decline.
Like LB De'Vondre Campbell didn't handle it so well when he started slipping in the pecking order or getting more criticism from coaches, and wasn't chosen to start with the 49ers.
Or OLB/DE Za'Darius Smith seemed to get an attitude when not enough people checked in on him, and he wasn't voted team captain, and then Packers, Vikings, Browns and now Lions all have seemed to get away from him after a year or two.
So certainly not just a him thing, this is a competitor or competitive issue, but I'm not sure it'll be pretty thing once Parson is no longer a star... but as long as he is, things might keep going great for him.