Cowboys pass rusher Micah Parsons and his former teammate DeMarcus Lawrence have traded barbs on social media after Lawrence said he chose Seattle in free agency in part because he was never going to win a Super Bowl with Dallas.
“This is what rejection and envy look like! This some clown shit,” Parsons wrote on X on Thursday before adding a clown emoji.
“Calling me a clown won’t change the fact that I told the truth,” Lawrence responded. “Maybe if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn’t have left.”
The reaction from Parsons was prompted by an interview with Seahawks blogger Brian Nemhauser in which Lawrence said, “Dallas is my home. … But I know for sure I’m not going to win a Super Bowl there.”
ESPN reported that other members of the Cowboys besides Parsons were upset at Lawrence’s comments.
The Cowboys are the most valuable sports franchise in the world but have not reached the Super Bowl since their last title, at the end of the 1995 season.
Lawrence, who agreed to a three-year deal with the Seahawks, was a second-round draft pick by Dallas in 2013 and signed the biggest contract for a defensive player in club history six years later after consecutive seasons with double-digit sacks. Lawrence failed to record more than 6.5 sacks in a season after signing the big contract, while the Cowboys made it to the divisional round of the playoffs four times in his 11 seasons. He said the Cowboys didn’t offer him a contract this offseason, although earlier this year he said he would like to stay in Dallas.
“The ball is in their court,” he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I’m not only going to play in Dallas. I’m going to have other options, but I’d like to stay here. It would be a glorious thing.”
The 32-year-old was limited to four games by a sprained foot in 2024 and missed at least half the season in two of the past four years.
Parsons is the fourth player in NFL history to record at least 10 sacks in each of his first four seasons. The other three are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. With Parsons going into the final year of his rookie contract, the Cowboys could be on the verge of making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL. Cleveland defensive end Myles Garrett just took that title with an extension that averages $40m per season.