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There's always more to the story than what meets the eye. On Thursday night, the Dallas Cowboys bookend edge rushers from the last few years, DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons, exchanged shots on social media. Lawrence, who was a free agent and signed with Seattle for $42 million on Wednesday, took an unveiled shot at the organization once he hit the Pacific Northwest, saying he knew he would never see a Super Bowl if he stayed in Dallas. It's a sentiment held by a part of the Cowboys fanbase, disgruntled at years of competitive-in-name-only mismanagement from Jerry Jones and the front office.
Parsons, a generational talent who is setting NFL records through four years in the league, didn't take kindly to Lawrence's words, which weren't obviously pointed at any one person or thing in particular. He quote tweeted the Twitter video that was making the rounds, calling Lawrence's take "some clown [expletive]". This elicited a direct response in the comments from Lawrence, blaming Parsons for the team's shortcomings.
And that response shed some light into there being a deeper issue between the two over the year. It's something that had been hinted at for a while, but never fully spoken on previously. Now that the animosity is out in the open, 105.3 The Fan Morning Show's Bobby Belt has shared an explanation as to what has been bubbling up over the years. He explains that they haven't gotten along for a while, Lawrence's talk of the team being "tired" after the Green Bay playoff loss was Lawrence choosing not to call out Parsons' preparation publicly, and that their lack of getting along is part of the reason Brian Schottenheimer was hired as the head coach back in January.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: EXPLAINED: Cowboys Parsons, Lawrence Twitter beef is long-running feud
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Parsons, a generational talent who is setting NFL records through four years in the league, didn't take kindly to Lawrence's words, which weren't obviously pointed at any one person or thing in particular. He quote tweeted the Twitter video that was making the rounds, calling Lawrence's take "some clown [expletive]". This elicited a direct response in the comments from Lawrence, blaming Parsons for the team's shortcomings.
And that response shed some light into there being a deeper issue between the two over the year. It's something that had been hinted at for a while, but never fully spoken on previously. Now that the animosity is out in the open, 105.3 The Fan Morning Show's Bobby Belt has shared an explanation as to what has been bubbling up over the years. He explains that they haven't gotten along for a while, Lawrence's talk of the team being "tired" after the Green Bay playoff loss was Lawrence choosing not to call out Parsons' preparation publicly, and that their lack of getting along is part of the reason Brian Schottenheimer was hired as the head coach back in January.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: EXPLAINED: Cowboys Parsons, Lawrence Twitter beef is long-running feud
Continue reading...
