The Dallas Cowboys backfilled their vacant defensive coordinator role -- after Dan Quinn left to take on a head coach role with the Washington Commanders -- in February by hiring Mike Zimmer. In the months since, Zimmer and one of his primary defensive weapons, Micah Parsons, have not spoken much.
"Honestly, me and [Zimmer] have probably said a total of 20 words to each other," Parsons said in a scrum with reporters recently. "He’s a very quiet person. All I keep hearing from the coaches is, ‘Zimm likes it this way.’ I was like, ‘Well, I like it this way.’"
In addition to his comments on a contract extension, this quote, too, will be scrutinized. There's some potential anxiety for Cowboys supporters behind those words. Ideally, you want your stars and their coaches aligned as deeply and as early as possible, so to hear there's both a lack of communication and alignment could be troublesome. Parsons, for his part, expressed full optimism in the new arrangement.
