You can forgive the Dallas Cowboys for not seeing the forest for the trees for a moment. This was a team with legitimate Super Bowl aspirations entering the 2023 season. They thought they finally had the horses to lift the franchise’s first Lombardi Trophy since 1995.
Then reality came ruthlessly crashing down in the form of a 49ers’ 42-10 massacre of Dallas on Sunday Night Football. In the immediate aftermath, it’s hard to accept that you’re not good enough, that you don’t belong with the big boys, and that all of your offseason hard work probably meant nothing.
But that doesn’t remotely excuse Micah Parsons, who showed a remarkable lack of self-awareness after the Cowboys’ pantsing on national television. According to Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News, Parsons was in full-on cope mode. He proclaimed that the score — which, again, saw the 49ers win by over 30 points — doesn’t accurately reflect the difference between the two long-time NFC rivals.
Parsons has never sounded more delusional:
