Despite the fact that, other than the New York Jets, the Dallas Cowboys have been the NFL’s biggest disappointment and laughingstock, linebacker Micah Parsons believes they’re a good football team. A “damn good football team,” to be accurate.

Coming off a 34-10 home loss to the Houston Texans, Pro Bowl linebacker Micah Parsons said on his The Edge podcast that the scores of the Cowboys’ games aren’t “showing” how “damn good” of a football team they are.

The Cowboys sit third in the NFC East with a 3-7 record and have lost five straight games. To be fair, they did lose Dak Prescott to a season-ending injury (but weren’t playing well when he was healthy, either).

“I’m going to put this out there, we’re a damn good football team. I know the scores ain’t showing it, and people feel like we’re missing so many key pieces, but I almost believe you need to really go through the things that we’re really messing up on,” Parsons said on his podcast.

“I think our defense has really things around. Up until that last quarter when they got that touchdown on defense, we only really gave up those two touchdowns in that first quarter. Other than that, we gave up those six points in those other two quarters.”

This is ultimately a reality of the modern age of media and a generation of athletes who grew up with social media, so that’s something my Millenial a– is going to have to accept, but current professional athletes are simply too online these days.

You’ve got Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner, for example, constantly tweeting and deleting responses to criticism, and posting broken heart emojis while saying things like “Most females these days will call you insecure if you get mad at this behavior.”

Now here’s Micah Parsons, in the midst of an abjectly terrible season for the Cowboys, making objectively untrue claims like the Cowboys are a “damn good football team.”

The Cowboys have not won a game game in the calendar year of 2024 and have lost their last five home games by a combined 110 points. That’s not just bad, it’s undeniably bad, yet here Parsons is.