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The Cowboys expect Micah Parsons to be a big part of their new culture, but there is business to be handled first.
With potential fines on the line, Parsons said via social media last week he would be at minicamp, confirming the words from his head coach Brian Schottenheimer. However, in that very message, Parsons might’ve foreshadowed a potential training camp holdout.
Parsons has suggested he won’t hold out but in his recent social media post, he wrote a sentence that should raise some eyebrows:
“Even though the contract is not done, I have teammates and a playbook!,” Parsons posted in relation to attending minicamp. ”I’m preparing as if I will be on the field the first week of camp! But it’s in the owner’s hands.”
You may read that in different ways but it sure sounds like he’s saying his attendance in minicamp is to prepare himself to be there in the first week of camp. . . “BUT it’s in the owner’s hands.”
In other words, though he’s preparing to be at camp, he might not be there if the owner doesn’t make a deal official by then. The Cowboys will report to training camp in late July at Oxnard, California.
One way or another, Micah Parsons plans on being himself once the season begins.
The three-time All-Pro pass rusher found himself on the receiving end of a special message ahead of minicamp, having phoned Schottenheimer as “good night” trend on TikTok, of course being an offseason headliner due to his ongoing contract negotiations.
“I know this is weird for everybody, but look, you’re handling everything the right way bro,” Schottenheimer told Parsons. “This thing is going to get worked out.”
Parsons was present and accounted for in the very beginning of the offseason program but absent during voluntary OTAs, making it exceedingly clear he’d be in the building for minicamp this week.
“I will be there!” he wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter). “I haven’t missed a camp in four years! Even though the contract is not done, I have teammates and a playbook! I’m preparing as if I will be on the field the first week of camp!”
In April, the four-time Pro Bowler echoed his previous plan to be in Oxnard as well for training camp.
“I’ll still be around,” he said. “For me, I’ve still gotta learn a playbook and I’m not so much of an iPad person where I can just keep learning. I’ve gotta walk through it. Maybe it’s so much I might not be on the field part of it, but...
