Watch: Michael Irvin ‘First Take’ Segment Goes Viral
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Stephen A. Smith made sure to make Cowboys legend Michael Irvin sad on Monday’s edition of First Take.
Smith was going through the clips of sad Cowboys fans that were shown during Sunday’s game and Irvin looked upset throughout the entire segment.
A masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/PRduKWWgg5 — Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) January 17, 2022
Based on this video, Smith couldn’t wait for Irvin to get on the show so he can gloat about the loss.
He also posted a video to his Twitter account on Sunday night laughing at the loss from Dallas and telling his followers to stay tuned for Monday morning’s show. He had this planned all along.
I TOLD Y’ALL!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/fGBDtaXJr8 — Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) January 17, 2022
The Cowboys were down 23-7 heading into the fourth quarter before cutting it to 23-17. They had two chances to win the game late in that quarter but weren’t able to convert.
Penalties were also a big reason why Dallas lost after the team tied a playoff record for the most penalties (14) in a playoff game.
Dallas will now potentially have big changes this offseason after losing yet another playoff game.
NFL World Reacts To Michael Irvin’s Honest Admission
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Earlier this week, former Dallas Cowboys legend Michael Irvin admitted he was nervous about the upcoming playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers.
“Absolutely,” Irvin said. “Soon as I saw the matchup I said ‘Oh god, not the 49ers.’ I had friends texting me ‘This is great, we got the 49ers.’ I was like ‘This is the worst draw. The worst draw.’ I wanted San Fran to go knock out Green Bay or the Rams before we saw them.”
Irving clearly isn’t thrilled about playing the 49ers in the opening round of the playoffs. Despite Dallas playing at home, he thinks San Francisco is the most dangerous matchup for the Cowboys.
Fans didn’t love seeing just how nervous Irvin was for the upcoming game.
“You know it’s not good when Michael is trippin about this matchup,” one fan said.
You know it’s not good when Michael is trippin about this matchup #49ers https://t.co/oBc5qAA8oQ — jgrover1533 (@jgrover1533) January 11, 2022
One person pointed out that Irvin called the 49ers the “worst draw” for the Cowboys – despite their loss to the Arizona Cardinals earlier this season.
“Michael Irvin calls the 49ers the “worst draw” for the Cowboys in the Wild Card round,” the analyst said.
Michael Irvin calls the 49ers the “worst draw” for the Cowboys in the Wild Card round. https://t.co/AAhnt5Tg0D — Bobby Belt (@BobbyBeltTX) January 12, 2022
One fan isn’t nervous at all, though.
“I ain’t nervous whatsoever,” the fan said.
I ain’t nervous whatsoever https://t.co/RKKxm6oLHj — Mark DeCarlo (@TheRealDeCar10) January 12, 2022
The Cowboys currently sit as a three-point favorite over the 49ers. San Francisco won four of its last five games, with the only loss coming to the No. 1 seed in the AFC – the Tennessee Titans.
Can the 49ers upset the Cowboys?
Michael Irvin ‘so happy’ for Deion Sanders’ success at Jackson State
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Deion Sanders recently won the Eddie Robinson Award for the best coach at the FCS level for his efforts at Jackson State. Fellow NFL legend Michael Irvin is happy to see Sanders having so much success in his coaching career. Irvin appeared on The Rich Eisen Show ahead of the Dallas Cowboys’ playoff matchup against the San Francisco 49ers and was asked about Sanders. Irvin said he is incredibly proud to see how well Sanders is doing, especially when it comes to landing big-time recruits who were committed to other programs. On top of that, Irvin sees the difference that Sanders is making in the Jackson community.
“He’s snatching them up,” Irvin said. “He’s been getting players that other people signed, but Prime comes in and does his sell job. Those players go with Prime. I’m so happy for him and the job he’s done. He’s recruiting, man. I’m telling you, he loves what he’s doing. I come through the airport, and I have guys who go, ‘Man, tell Deion thank you.’ Rich, we look at the football. I got a lot of people from Jackson, Mississippi who tell me all the time, ‘Michael, you have no idea how much he’s affecting the whole area.’ It’s one of the highest crime rates in America, but Deion is affecting everything. They say, ‘Just tell him thank you. Just tell him thank you for what he’s doing and how he’s doing it.’ I’m just so happy for him.”
Sanders himself was recently on The Rich Eisen Show and spoke about the future of his career. Sanders said that the mission is not finished at Jackson State because the program still has another level that it can reach.
“I’m not looking to tomorrow, I don’t do that right now,” Sanders said. “I focus on today. I focus on the now. I focus on maximizing the moment and giving these kids all I have today. When tomorrow comes, I’ll concern myself about that tomorrow. I don’t look down there. That’s why we’ve been successful. We really focus and dominate today and in the moment. They’re questioning what’s the build up, what’s the exit plan … all that. I don’t think like that. Not only do I have to win, I have to dominate. I take this next phase of my life like I did the (NFL) game. I’ve got to dominate this thing. We’re winning, but we’re not dominating.”
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In his two seasons as the head coach at Jackson State, Sanders has led the team to an overall record of 15-5.
Stephen A. Smith had a lot of fun laughing at sad Dallas Cowboys fans
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The Dallas Cowboys, as we all know by now, had their season come to an abrupt end yesterday when they couldn’t get a snap off before the final whistle and lost at home to the 49ers, 23-17.
It was an embarrassing end to a season that had a lot of promise for a Cowboys team that has way too much talent to not win a playoff game.
If you watched the game then you probably saw all the shots of sad Cowboys fans in the stands as the fourth quarter ticked down.
Well, on ESPN’s First Take today Stephen A. Smith, who doesn’t like the Cowboys, had a lot of fun laughing at those fans, all with former Cowboys legend Michael Irvin sitting by his side.
Check this out:
I gotta admit, that’s pretty funny. Also a little mean, but whatever. We all need to laugh at ourselves more.
Twitter had reactions:
‘Now we become legends’: Micah Parsons on cusp of postseason glory under watchful eyes of Cowboys icons
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The lion is always hungry. And even as the table is being set for the biggest meal yet of his young career, Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons was feeding his appetite at a lunchtime film-crunching session with former Dallas sackmaster DeMarcus Ware.
Then the transcendent rookie sat down for a revealing long-form conversation with a group of ex-NFL stars to talk about the learning curve of his first year in the pros, how his rapid rise and pursuit of individual accolades has affected his play, and what reaching the postseason really means to him.
He also got an eye-opening confirmation of exactly where the bar for him has been set, after another Dallas legend, Hall of Fame wide receiver and three-time Super Bowl champ Michael Irvin, joined the chat to share a text he sent to the Cowboys brass shortly after Parsons joined the club.
Early in the week, Parsons and Ware met up at a Metroplex restaurant and broke down tape while breaking bread over a two-hour lunch. Ware appeared in eight postseason games over his 12-year career, including a Super Bowl win with Denver.
“He helped me [with] how to prepare the best so that way, I keep my head low and I can stay focused on the things I need to focus on,” Parsons said.
“He said, ‘You’re explosive off the line of scrimmage, but you’ve got to learn how to jump off the line and get a good jump on the count,’” Parsons relayed to reporters the day after his lunch meeting with Ware. “He was telling me about what to look for when you’re watching [tape]: all the tendency things, things that I kind of knew, but he kind of went into more detail on things.”
The 22-year-old has already established himself as a quick study this season. He wasted no time in putting Ware’s lessons to work in a film session with Cowboys senior defensive assistant George Edwards just hours later.
“I was watching film with George this morning; I kind of had a head start on it, and I was like, ‘Hey, you see that right there with the receiver when they run the toss?’ or whatever. He was like, ‘Oh yeah, you are getting it.’ I was like, ‘Yeah George, I’m paying more attention than you think, brother.’”
Parsons is definitely catching on, to just about everything that comes with playing defense in the NFL. He was named a first-team All-Pro this week, the only rookie so honored.
In a new episode of The Pivot podcast with ex-NFLers Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder, Parsons spoke at length about his willingness to set aside pride and ego, despite being a highly-sought-after first-round draft pick signed in the spring with the express intent of turning around a porous and soft Dallas defense.
Parsons made it clear from Day One with Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn that he was open to serious schooling, telling Quinn, “If I’m not doing something right, tell me.”
What he perhaps didn’t expect was to still be singled out after a season that has made Parsons practically a shoo-in for the league’s Defensive Rookie of the Year Award.
“So earlier this week,” Parsons said of Quinn, “he had three loafs [of mine] on film in practice.” I was like, ‘Practice.’ He was like, ‘Hey, you’re one of our better players. I need you locked in. This is not the example I need you to put on going into this 49ers game. You get me?’ I said, ‘I got you, Q.’”
The individual awards got into the rookie’s head at times this season. There were moments on the field when Parsons admittedly found himself thinking about adding to his stat totals.
“Sometimes you ride that borderline,” the Penn State product said on the podcast. “I found myself doing that toward the end. I was like, ‘I’ve got to have a good game if I want to keep sustaining what I’m doing.’ You never want to put yourself in a predicament where you’re choosing yourself over the team.”
Now Parsons has helped his team reach the tournament as the NFC’s No. 3 seed. And even though he was watching from home with COVID as the Cowboys closed out the 2021 regular season with a rout in a Philadelphia, the rookie immediately grasped the importance of the moment suddenly at hand.
“I texted Tre [cornerback Trevon Diggs] right after that Eagles game. I said, ‘We just became stars, and that’s cool. But now we become legends.’ This is where legends are made… Look at [NBA superstar] Reggie Miller, those type of guys. Great players, but they never got these, know what I mean?”
He was pointing to his ring finger as he said it. Parsons clearly understands what it’s all about.
And if it took Cowboys fans a little while to take notice of how special Parsons is, it took one of the greatest Cowboys of them all significantly less time.
The iconic Irvin surprised Parsons during the podcast. Over the course of the wide-ranging conversation, Irvin shared with the group a message he had sent to Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones. It came just a week after the team made Parsons the 12th overall pick, having to go to Plan C after many had felt the organization had been targeting- and missed out on- cornerbacks Patrick Surtain II or Jaycee Horn.
Irvin asked Clark to read the text out loud:
This is great. @michaelirvin88 shared a text he sent to Stephen Jones on May 7th about Micah. Check it out. Can’t wait until we give Micah a 10 year deal. pic.twitter.com/4HlIaF1hyS — DCBlueStar (@DCBlueStar) January 15, 2022
“‘Mark this as a blessing in disguise,’” Clark read. “‘I love the corners like Surtain, but I think- especially on defense- attitude and connectivity is most important. I know the attitudes, the personalities of the corners, and none–‘ none is capitalized, y’all; all big letters- ‘none of them have what Micah brings. Mark these words, buddy, you will see. There’s something special about this kid’s spirit that reminds me of me. Now we just have to make sure we keep the right people around him so he makes the right decision. Love you boss, and keep up the great work.’ That was May 7th. He didn’t write that today.”
So far, Irvin seems to have been spot-on in what he wrote about Parsons.
And now, with the help of two Cowboys legends, Parsons looks to write his own extended fairytale ending to what has already been a storybook season.