Micah Parsons still isn\u2019t ready to play after last year\u2019s knee injury, but he still knows how to mix things up.<\/p>\n
Parsons recently said on his podcast, The Edge with Micah Parsons, that quarterback Jayden Daniels is to blame for the game-clock clusterfudge at the end of overtime in the Giants-Commanders game.<\/p>\n
\u201cJayden Daniels probably cost my man Dan Quinn his job<\/a>, to be honest with you,\u201d Parsons said, via Nicki Jhabvala of The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cTo be honest with you. And, like, I\u2019m a big Jayden Daniels fan. But the reality is, he probably cost a lot of people their jobs this past weekend. . . .<\/p>\n \u201cAll respectfully, we get coached so much on these situations that, like, I\u2019m a defensive player, and this shit\u2019s programmed to me. I even know what to do in those situations. There\u2019s no way I\u2019m taking a sack with 14 seconds left and no timeouts. . . . And, mind you, it\u2019d be different if Jayden Daniels was a rookie. This is your third year. This is your third year. You\u2019ve been to the NFC Championship game. You\u2019ve been in big moments before. And to me, like even after a sack, you\u2019re casually getting up.\u201d<\/p>\n Parsons made it clear that, in his view, quarterbacks are expected to always know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is your job, bro,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cThis is your job to be prepared to understand the game and understand situations. That\u2019s in your job profile. And you\u2019re telling me, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re gonna want to pay this guy eventually $60 million? This cannot happen. . . . I\u2019m a big JD5 fan, but that\u2019s inexcusable, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n Parsons said that the Packers work on situational football \u201cevery day,\u201d What happened at the end of the Giants-Commanders game should have required no discussion, frankly.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a lack of preparation, a lack of mentality, and a lack of urgency,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cThat just can\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Parsons isn\u2019t wrong. The fact that it did happen raises plenty of questions about the level of preparation and attention to detail, as created by the coaching staff. It speaks to potential cultural flaws, perhaps one in which Daniels hasn\u2019t been challenged or held as accountable as he could have or should have been, given his standing in the organization.<\/p>\n It would be a lot easier to make sense of all of this if the Commanders had recorded and preserved the relevant communications. And Daniels surely will face even more questions on this topic the next time he speaks to reporters.<\/p>\n The fact that the outcome was so bizarre, so jarring, and so downright surreal becomes a horrible moment for everyone involved. As to the ultimate consequences, Parsons hit the nail on the head \u2014 Daniels\u2019s failure to take charge of the situation in the moment will probably cost Quinn his job. <\/p>\n But Daniels will continue to be the starting quarterback because, even if he made an inexcusable mistake as to one of the easiest parts of the job, he does the hard parts better than most of his peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons still isn\u2019t ready to play after last year\u2019s knee injury, but he still knows how to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-881344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}