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Former Giants superstar Lawrence Taylor recently called out Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons on a podcast, saying, “He’s a great player. But guys, let’s do more. Let’s play more football and less podcasts.” Is Lawrence Taylor the right person to advise players on off-field behavior? Is Parsons' podcasting a distraction, or does it even matter? Parsons’ unapologetic nature and lack of filter have led to multiple controversies, many wonder if his podcasting impacts his focus and his performance with the Cowboys.

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00:00That is a natural conflict that I think has has come up for the Cowboys before of just

00:21like you're you're a football player and you're in season and you're supposed to be focusing

00:25on this. And then when you're the head of football content at Bleacher Report, a lot

00:30of your your stuff that you're going to do there is driving engagement for your content

00:35and everything's like that. And that's probably going to put you in a position where you're

00:38going to feel like you need to say things or talk about things that the Cowboys be like

00:41are counter to being focused on the season. Right. And potentially you if you're if you're

00:47weighing in on boy, the Giants are the dumbest team in the world for letting Saquon Barkley

00:52go and you're saying that on your podcast, you're playing the Giants a couple weeks.

00:55Some guys may be like, why are you saying that? Don't don't even talk about it. I think

00:59that is or loving Jordan Love right or having him right on like, dude, this guy just kicked

01:04their ass. What are you doing? Why are you doing that? It's it's it's it's impossible

01:08to define on paper. Yeah. You know, you have to guess and have an opinion based on it affecting

01:14you. It's something in the air that you try to quantify. I bet there I bet there are plenty

01:19of teammates and coaches and other people in the organization who don't even have an

01:24awareness of yeah, I know Micah does a podcast. It doesn't bug me. It doesn't even then I'm

01:28sure there are other people. What did Malik say about him? What was that thing between

01:31him and Hooker? I don't remember what the statement was. But yeah, let me look it up.

01:36Like digs is totally fine with it. And Malik hooker a tank Lawrence may not be to your

01:43point of being split in the building. But what did Malik say? My advice for Micah would

01:47be just make sure we're all right and being where your feet are. Because if we're at work

01:52and the run games terrible, but you're doing a podcast every week and you know, the run

01:56game is terrible. Then what are you really caring about? And that was something that

02:00I think that was a tense point for those two past training camp. So there's Lawrence Taylor

02:06saying yeah, Micah Parsons. He's going to be a Hollywood actor one day. He's got the

02:10personality. I do want to add that for the context because I listened to the end of the

02:13clip but saying how about a little less podcast a little more football. And I mean, to be

02:19fair not the podcast specifically. We were all saying the same things last offseason

02:24about his his content trips to Japan and different things. I had about like dude, why are you

02:29not in there learning the new defense and and being around your new defensive coordinator

02:33and different things like that? Why is why are you off here doing these things and prioritizing

02:37that?

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