{"id":170587,"date":"2025-08-24T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170587\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:03:09","slug":"cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-addresses-micah-parsons-sideline-conduct-mri-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170587\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Brian Schottenheimer addresses Micah Parsons\u2019 sideline conduct, MRI results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/brian-schottenheimer\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/brian-schottenheimer\/\">Dallas Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer<\/a> said Saturday he hasn\u2019t spoken to pass rusher Micah Parsons about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/22\/micah-parsons-dallas-cowboys-preseason-hold-in-jerry-jones-contract\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/22\/micah-parsons-dallas-cowboys-preseason-hold-in-jerry-jones-contract\/\">his conduct during Friday\u2019s preseason finale against the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> but plans to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cI have not,\u201d Schottenheimer said during a conference call, if he\u2019s talked to Parsons. \u201cI\u2019m aware of it [the conduct], but I have not had a chance to talk to Micah. I will talk to Micah tomorrow and get a chance to sit down and visit with him and handle it internally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">During the game, Parsons lay down on the training table for several moments and didn\u2019t wear a jersey, which is mandated by Schottenheimer to all players who don\u2019t play. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWithout talking to Micah, I need to figure out what he was doing and why he was doing it,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cUntil I talk to him, I\u2019m obviously not going to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Be the smartest Cowboys fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Parsons declined to comment after the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Schottenehimer confirmed Parsons had an MRI exam on his back, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/18\/dallas-cowboys-micah-parsons-jerry-jones-contract-update\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/18\/dallas-cowboys-micah-parsons-jerry-jones-contract-update\/\">which he complained is tight.<\/a> Schottenheimer said the MRI came back clean. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cAt the end of the day, it sounds like the MRI came back pretty clean and we\u2019ll see how he feels tomorrow when we see him,\u201d Schottenheimer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Parsons is conducting a hold-in as he awaits a contract extension. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has said Parsons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/21\/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-micah-parsons-agent-david-mulugheta-michael-irvin-podcast\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/21\/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-micah-parsons-agent-david-mulugheta-michael-irvin-podcast\/\">is under contract for three seasons<\/a>, his salary for this season, and the possibility of the team placing the franchise tag on him the next two seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Parsons hasn\u2019t practiced the entire training camp but is attending walkthrough practices and meetings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Aug. 1, Parsons<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-we-know-micah-parsons-trade-request-dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-we-know-micah-parsons-trade-request-dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones\/\"> requested a trade from the team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said Saturday he hasn\u2019t spoken to pass rusher Micah Parsons about his conduct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,29841,10768,7311,1596,8998,11138,1232,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-170587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brian-schottenheimer","10":"tag-brief","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-micah-parsons","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081288385158033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}