Micah Parsons just said something that Jerry Jones might not like. After a difficult season, his comments might not land cleanly.
It might not seem like it, but Micah Parsons is already heading into his fifth season. The Dallas Cowboys star pass rusher has seen just about every level of the NFL until mid-January.
Of course, while the team is going through its growing pains as they transition away from Mike McCarthy, Parsons has been going through growing pleasures as his rate of production per game increases year over year.
In 2024, Parsons delivered 12 sacks in 13 games. In 2023, it took him 17 games to reach 14 sacks. Of course, as his production per game has increased, his takes have gotten progressively louder as well.
Parsons hasn’t hesitated to call Joe Burrow his would-be MVP favorite, effectively stepping over Dak Prescott in the process. Now, the rival of the Philadelphia Eagles has set a potential expiration date on his loyalty to the team. He might stick around longer, but only on one condition.
Micah Parsons teases potential future departure
According to Sports Illustrated and Bleacher Report, Parsons entertained the notion of leaving the Dallas Cowboys to pursue a Super Bowl championship on a recent edition of “The Edge with Micah Parsons.” Parsons didn’t come outright and say he was going to join the Kansas City Chiefs, but he made a motion that could be interpreted as a nod to Kansas City.
“In the next four or five years, once I hit 30, and I’m not where I need to be, if that ring isn’t right here fitted,” Parsons said.
After the statement, he made a tomahawk chop motion, which Chiefs fans are all too familiar with.
Parsons didn’t appear to declare it in the most serious manner, but there’s a little bit of truth in every joke. For Jerry Jones, he might be hoping that Parsons was using a different truth to lay the foundation for that one.
Micah Parsons’ ‘joke’ lines up with previous precedent
Of course, fans of the Chiefs’ rival Denver Broncos know what a departing pass rushing star looks like. Von Miller, who took over Super Bowl 50 to upset the Carolina Panthers, moved on from the team in 2021 around the age of 30. The Broncos were the one to pull the trigger, but the result was the same.
Miller joined the Los Angeles Rams and proceeded to win the Super Bowl. Parsons can joke about chasing a Lombardi at age 30 and attempt to write it off as a joke all he wants, but Miller serves as at least one recent precedent indicating that Parsons might not be joking all that much.
Of course, even if he’s dead serious in the back of his mind, that still gives the Cowboys half a decade to get into position as a team that won 12 games in three of the last four years. Will Dallas meet Parsons’ timeline?
