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Micah Parsons 'Will Report To Training Camp' Despite Cowboys Rip Job, Per Report

Jul 20, 2025 1:17 PM EDT

FRISCO – The Dallas Cowboys and their “selectively aggressive” philosophy moved them to trade for George Pickens this offseason, a pickup that putting a cork into some of the criticism that “America’s Team” is unwilling to do enough to compete.

The cork, though, is temporary.

The national media is getting that itch …

And now we have Mike Florio once again appointing himself as the advisor to Micah Parsons … and his advice is that Micah shouldn’t show up Monday to training camp in Oxnard.

(Micah, by the way, isn’t taking Florio’s advice; he’s planning on being in Oxnard, as this report notes … confirming what Parsons has already told us.)

This is a tired bit from the national media: Pretending to care about what’s best for a player most of them have never met.

Examples? All-Pro defensive star Parsons this offseason responded to the Washington Commanders acquiring Pro Bowl left tackle Laremy Tunsil to protect rising quarterback Jayden Daniels with three simple letters: WFT.

In response to Parsons’ visible frustration, ESPN’s Get Up! offered unsolicited advice to the star, who is under contract for 2025 and has worked with the Cowboys in negotiating a contract extension that we believe could end in a five-year, $200 million-plus deal that would make him the highest-paid non-QB in NFL history.

ESPN’s advice? In short, “Dallas sucks.”

That day, host Mike Greenberg and panelists Dan Orlovsky and Damien Woody took turns ripping the Cowboys while also telling Parsons to leave Dallas … with no details of what that strategy would look like.

“Get used to it,” Greenberg said of other teams doing more than Dallas does.

Orlovsky: “The Cowboys are 13th in free-agency spending the last three seasons, yet their value has gone up $3 billion. That’s an owner stat, not a football stat.”

Woody: “I’m sick to my stomach if I’m Micah. The Cowboys are sitting back like ‘all is well, status quo.’ If you’re Micah do you really want to be a part of that?”

Of course, here we are with a Monday. camp opening and ESPN feels all wrong. The Cowboys didn’t “sit back.” They are clearly trying to compete.

And yet …

The national media advice never stops, with PFT’s Florio again regurgitating his advice to Parsons to stay away from Oxnard until a new deal is done.

“If Parsons were my son, brother, nephew, cousin, client, or friend, I’d tell him to stay away,” writes Florio with an air of arrogance.

That advice ignores the fact that Parsons is presently under contract … and as it follows up Florio statements like “the Cowboys are clueless” and “the Cowboys don’t care about winning” feels like nothing more that contrarian trolling.

And it echoes something Greenberg said in his “advice to Micah.”

“Do I want to be one of the biggest stars in the NFL – because the Cowboys can do that – or do I want to be on a championship team?” he wondered. “Right now the Cowboys feel about as far from that as anyone in the entire league.”

This doesn’t sound like expert analysis. … just like Florio doesn’t sound like someone qualified to join Parsons’ team of supporters, which not only includes family members who actually know and care about him but which also includes one of the most capable agents in the business in David Mulugheta.

Florio in reality isn’t trying to help Parsons. He’s trying to gain readership and he’s trying to take potshots at Dallas.

That’s his business. Pretending he’s qualified to advise players on $200 million decisions … shouldn’t be.