August 4 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBEMhIaubE

Levar Arrington calls Micah the "best player in
the draft overall", but starts off by saying "early
signs indicate Micah Parsons being an absolute
game wrecker."

That's good to hear.

Well, underneath "you never know 'til you know"
heading, I didn't know that youtube provides an
automatic transcript with its videos. The following
is a transcript of the Micah Parsons video.

There is no punctuation or capitalization; I've cor-
rected the mistakes in the auto-transcript [& I've
corrected a mistake a commentator made in an
insertion within brackets]:

early signs indicate micah parsons being
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an absolute
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game wrecker for the cowboys the former
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penn state standout is already showing
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off his versatility and training camp
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as he's lining up at various linebacker
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positions as well as
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showing off his pass rushing skills
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parsons has the attention of mike
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mccarthy
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who described his young defensive stud
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as unique
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levar is your guy parsons the key to
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turning around the cowboys defense
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he's he's a major part to to the
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ingredients
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of making the key that does unlock the
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potential of what the
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the cowboys can be listen i said this
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coming into the draft
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when he was coming out everybody asked
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me what what who is michael parsons
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what what is he what what can he do what
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can he be
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i thought he was the best player in the
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draft overall
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not because of my connection in relation
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to him because i know what his
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capabilities are i said this i made a
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bold proclamation on the show yesterday
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and i saw a couple people picked up on
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it
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i said it's the best football player
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i've seen since i played with sean
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taylor that's the first
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he's the first kid i've seen young man
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that i've seen
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to the level of what he's capable of
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doing
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from the position that he plays that if
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it made me draw comparisons like who do
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i compare him to who does
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he remind me of what he's capable of
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doing and it was sean taylor
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reason why it's like sean plays safety
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micah plays linebacker
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but when you think about the things that
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sean taylor was able to do
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sean taylor could play safety both
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safety positions both strong
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and free he can cover like a free he can
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hit you
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like a bag of bricks like a strong he
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can get in the box like a strong
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and play like a linebacker or he can get
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out and play coverage he can do all of
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those things
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he was so versatile he was sidelined the
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sideline when you look at michael
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parsons and what his skill sets are and
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what his strengths are and what he's
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capable of doing
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it's the same exact thing except it's
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the level it's the level up
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and one more level forward at the
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linebacking position he can play all
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three linebacking
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spots he can play on the inside which
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means that he can play
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inside the tackles make plays with
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guards make plays against centers he can
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get to the ball carrier
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and he is one of the best at navigating
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and dis
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disengaging blockers he's also able to
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get sideline the sideline so if you
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think about like guys like a brian
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urlacher
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who has the ability to be able to run
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from sideline to sideline from the
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the inside of the defense he can do all
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of those things
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at a pro bowl you know all-pro level if
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you put him on the outsides
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you know strong side can you set an edge
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can you be a three down backer at the
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strong side it's a different game than
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the weak side
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weak side guys it's more pass oriented
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it's more off the ball it's more play
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the run he can do that he's quick enough
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he's fast enough
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his his his decisiveness and being able
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to
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diagnose plays his ability to to
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antidote is it's just it's a it's he's a
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different
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dude he can cover man to man he can do
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all those things he can play on a tight
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end man to man he can do
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what a strong side backer does which is
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more dirty work of the defense it's more
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almost like an interior lineman a
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defensive end added to your defense
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but he can run as a defensive end you
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can you can actually the kid was
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actually
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a defensive end in high school he had to
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transition
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out of being a defensive end and move to
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a linebacker
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a lot of what we saw from pitt state
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linebacking micah parsons
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was even watered down because they
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probably couldn't figure out
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how exactly to use him this is going to
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be the biggest key for
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for mccarthy and for quinn and quinn has
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admitted it as much
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how do you use micah parsons you you
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have
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a strong linebacking core you have a
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really really strong defensive front as
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well that that's coming together
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how do you use micah parsons exactly if
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they crack the code on where to use him
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and at the times to use him you should
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see
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a really really special special player
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a generational player on the defensive
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side of the ball so a major key
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ingredient
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to if the dallas cowboys will have
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success this year
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as a rookie look i like the kid i like
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the kid a lot i don't think it's
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possible to like him as much as levar
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does
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but but i do like him all right i think
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that the county boys hit at least a
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triple
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they they hit a triple with this we'll
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see if it turns into a home run but this
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was a good draft pick
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you mentioned everything he can do i
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mean he's versatile
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he's his size six four 250 he's got four
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three four four speed do you understand
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how he's crazy
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that he runs a four three four right
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that's incredibly
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coming out of college the dude
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the dude has all the ability to get it
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done
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saying he is the key is an overstatement
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that's going too far
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but i think he as you said lavar he's
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one of the keys
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i think dan quinn is a key all right i
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know he's the defensive coordinator he
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won't be out there on the field
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but he's the key dallas had the four
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years before mike nolan took over
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they were in the top third of the league
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defensively
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and a few times they were in the top 10
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close to the top five
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and nolan comes in and complicates
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things
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and they fall off so i think quinn
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coming back
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is a bit or you know coming to dallas
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he's a great defensive coordinator
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i think that's big i think the other
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linebackers leighton van der esh i've
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mentioned
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he's playing for a contract i think
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that's going to be big
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i think he'll be able to stay healthy
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somehow guys have a
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way of staying healthy at times when
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they're playing for a contract
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all right jalen smith need i need a good
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year out of him
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demarcus lawrence i need him to turn
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back the clock
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when two years ago he was he was a pro
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bowler
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i need him to get back to that level
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which he hadn't played at
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the last couple of years treyvon diggs i
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think i'm expecting a big jump
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from him in this second season to really
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shore up that secondary so
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there are a lot of keys to this defense
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succeeding
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micah parks is one of them but it's
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going to take much more than him
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to make this defense what they need it
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to be yeah as good as parsons is
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it's tough to put an entire burden on a
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22 year old
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rookie i'm sure he's going to be great
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but sorry he's not one of the top three
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guys
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that's needed to perform on this defense
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oh yeah i think you guys missed this
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okay i know you guys don't love the
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numbers pro football focus
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has the cowboys secondary ranked 31st
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in the league okay they were a tire fire
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last year in the secondary and
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part of it is because they can't get to
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the quarterback other than lawrence they
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got nobody to rush to pass her
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and what does jerry do he didn't get to
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the quarterback we're gonna get aldon
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smith

observer <prohumanistfreelover@gmail.com> writes:

> August 4 2021
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBEMhIaubE
>
> Levar Arrington calls Micah the "best player in
> the draft overall", but starts off by saying "early
> signs indicate Micah Parsons being an absolute
> game wrecker."
>
> That's good to hear.

Arrington is strange. He speaks well and sounds intelligent.
However, he says a lot of stuff I find crazy. Maybe that means
he is right and I am crazy.

A segment or two later in that show they talk about PFF's power
rankings, and he says that the Saints are too low and should maybe be in
the top 5. ???

https://twitter.com/lavararrington
Look for "Why have the Packers at 5 when they've shown repeatedly they
can make it to the game before the Super Bowl"

I'm expecting to see the Saints flounder as a result of the cap
shenannigans done to try to win a SB with Brees finally coming due.

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-for-the-2021-nfl-season
What a crazy list. They have the Falcons at 18 while still giving ATL
a 4% chance to win the SB. They're not even aiming for consistent.