The Cowboys were a significant character in the NFL Honors broadcast Thursday night. While head coach Mike McCarthy served as a primetime punchline, Micah Parsons racked up a record-setting win and is already trying to parlay the award into a major-league moment. All that on a night when a Cowboys legend was shockingly left on the outside looking in.
Plenty more to discuss in Cowboys Nation, like the new position coach who spent his third day on the job interviewing somewhere else. And the revelation that our rookie phenom actually played the whole season hurt. Two Cowboys youngsters have gotten a taste of just what it truly means to play for the Team America Loves to Hate, and CeeDee Lamb talks wistfully about how a rival use their rangy wide receiver. We’ve got an analytical approach to a first-round mock pick, reflections on the Cowboys organization from a former player about to take the field for a championship, and the stories you don’t know about the last Super Bowl to be played in Los Angeles (the one where Dallas rolled to a 52-17 win). All that, plus one of the weirdest traditions in all of sports is about to go down once again. Here’s the News and Notes.