Micah Parsons has some advice for Jerry Jones: Do your job better this year.
The Cowboys’ star pass rusher called out Dallas’ front office for failing to deliver the players needed to make a deeper postseason run this year.
Dallas has now gone 28 years since making a conference championship game after being embarrassed at home by the Packers in a 48-32 loss in the wild-card round.
“They’re talking about we’re going all-in this year and that’s what I would hope for … I hope that we go all-in and I hope we go out and get the players we’re missing because we didn’t do that this year,” Parsons said Wednesday on his first “The Edge with Micah Parsons” show since the Cowboys’ stunning postseason elimination. “I hope that we challenge ourselves, become better and become greater for us.”
It’s rare that a player calls out his front office for a lack of moves, but it seemed Parsons was reacting to Jones saying Tuesday at the Senior Bowl that he planned to go all-in.
Jones has championed for a long-term outlook in the past, but Dallas hasn’t played for a conference title or the Lombardi Trophy since 1996 and the fans are getting restless.
“I would anticipate, with looking ahead at our key contracts that we’d like to address, we will be all-in,” Jones said Tuesday in Mobile, Ala. “I would anticipate we will be all-in at the end of this year. … We will push the hell out of it. It will be going all-in on different people than you’ve done in the past. We will be going all-in. We’ve seen some things out of some of the players that we want to be all in on. Yes, I would say that you will see us this coming year not building for the future. It’s the best way I’ve ever said it.”
That approach is a stark difference to how Dallas approached this past season.
Dallas focused on retaining its own talent instead of adding outside talent.
Jones and his staff had a modest offseason, with their biggest non-extension moves being trades to acquire wide receiver Brandin Cooks and cornerback Stephon Gilmore.
Cooks underwhelmed this season, while Gilmore helped Dallas’ defense be one of the better units in the league, but that unraveled quickly against Green Bay.
Parsons hopes that adding better players will solve that and help avoid another brutal loss in the playoffs.
“We were out-performed, out-schemed, however you want to put it, they had an answer for everything,” Parsons said about the loss to the Packers.
“To go out like that at home was completely embarrassing and unacceptable … It took me a while to even show my face in the public, I disappeared like completely.”