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Boomer & Gio

Who Do NFL Players Play For?

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

JJ Watt reacted to Jerry Jones’ comments on Micah Parsons’ contract situation. He didn’t like Jones taking a shot at Parsons and Dak Prescott, as they are players fighting for Jones. Gio doesn’t think they are trying to win for the owner, they are trying to get paid. They are fighting for themselves, their teammates and the fans.

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0:00.0

Last hour, Jerry Reco played a cut of Jerry Jones talking about Micah Parsons and his contract and how just because you sign a guy to a four or five year deal doesn't mean that you're actually going to have him because he missed some games last year and anything could happen to a guy.

0:18.3

He can get hit by a car.

0:19.5

And it's just, it's a bizarre thing to say if you're Jerry Jones as an owner, but we know him to be an individual that says bizarre things.

0:27.6

Now, this did not go over well in the player community, the current player or former player community, as you could imagine.

0:34.3

But, you know, J.J. Watt puts this thing out here and I understand why he's upset.

0:40.0

And he is a guy who definitely fought for his team was a great teammate.

0:44.1

But I don't know if everybody is like that those days, these days.

0:47.8

So J.J. Watt quote tweets the Jerry Jones comments and says, anytime you can publicly take a dig at your store quarterback

0:57.8

and your star pass rusher simultaneously, right before the season begins, you just got to take it.

1:05.5

Nothing makes guys want to fight for you more than hearing how upset you are that they got hurt

1:10.4

while fighting for you.

1:11.4

Now, obviously, he's being sarcastic about this.

1:14.4

I mean, do you feel like Micah Parsons or Dak Prescott, like they're fighting for Jerry Jones

1:22.9

and the Cowboys?

1:23.9

Are most players when they're out there playing their ass off thinking about, I got to take care of my family for generations and the better I play, the more money I get.

1:33.8

And hey, if we lose, hell, we lose.

1:36.1

But I mean, it's not as if the, you know, Michael Parsons is out there playing for peanuts trying to get Jerry Jones another Super Bowl before he dies.

1:43.5

That's not the top of his list.

1:45.0

The top of his list is getting that guaranteed money and getting pizzade.

1:48.3

Well, like we were talking about the quarterback documentary on Netflix

1:51.6

and Jared Gough talking about getting traded from the Rams.

1:55.4

You know, it happens.

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