The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 9-9-25 PREVIEW | Micah Parsons plays the victim and the Brandon Aubrey Show

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

Hear the entire episode by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneIt's another edition of the Brandon Aubrey Show presented by Community Mechanical DFW which includes the trip to Philadelphia and Blake getting in trouble on the team plane. Micah Parsons thinks his getting traded is all the Cowboys fault. And the head coach of the Tennessee Titans didn't know this rule? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at Dumbzone.com. What's our status? Does anybody know? Still nothing. I can do Micah. Yeah, yeah. So, Micah talked after the game, had a, you know, he was pretty limited in a snap count, but I think when he was out there, you could definitely tell.

And, you know, golf's time to throw was down, and he was disruptive. He was Micah. And I think people were wondering, was his back really hurt, and did he need an injection, and how much of that was just blowing smoke? But he talked after the game for about 12 minutes. He says five minutes, by the way. Okay. And Micah just doesn't have a great view on the trade and why it happened and how it happened.

And I thought some of his comments were interesting, including... Micah doesn't know why it happened. His view of it is not... Or you have that audio? Because I want to respond to that right now. Like, did anybody point out the... Did I put out the... Okay, I'll play the...

Okay, I'll play this one first. Did the Cowboys put out of demand to trade? How about this? Super relief. I'm telling you, like, this last six months was super draining, super toxic for everyone. I mean, it's something that, you know, I don't think no players should have to go through. I think players' fate should be decided earlier. I think the fact I was traded a week before the season, it was really outrageous and rough.

Should we worry? What's the CBA? Like, okay, if that's... He wanted to be paid a year early. He had another year on his contract. It's called a contract. Not every player. Many players do get franchise tagged.

They often end up really coming out great on the other end. Very rarely, if ever, I think, do you end up seeing a franchise tag guy? Like, hey, you know what? This didn't work out. Like, it's always that the owners are doing it to their own detriment a lot of times. I'm just, I guess I'm just thinking of big ones, like Kirk Cousins. Yeah, I'm trying to put this in context For guys even that threaten

Okay, so what is he specifically Matt upset about, though? It's because it's because it happened to him a week before, but Well, he was talking about the whole six months And the whole So there's a lot here, plenty to get into We got our friend here. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, let me hit this then. Our man is kicking. holding bombs with his foot down on the gas homie kick it off the turf papa kick it off the grass can you hear this brandon yeah i can hear it sounds great Aubrey, brought to us every week by Community Mechanical, our HVAC company. Check them out and get you some preventive maintenance like Brandon did for his HVAC unit.

How are you, sir? I am good sitting here on an off day in my kitchen. It's my new office, the old office, or I guess the only office in the house, just got turned into a Colton Playroom. so now relegated to the office or the kitchen man that's tough that's tough you always think all these pro athletes millionaire pro athletes they get everything they want like i just i just got an office and it's the greatest thing in the world and now i'm looking at him brandon randon ovary at the kitchen table humble humble yeah it's awesome because he can run around and play in there

without anything a danger of hurting him so it's a good trade-off all right well if you want to protect your kid I guess we have to do it so first thing from me

somebody asked us to ask you about this but I'd seen some chatter about it online do we I know we might have touched on this do we have different K-balls this year you kick you with yeah we've got different K balls with it different

and what is your experience in it with it thus far um It's nice. We get to practice with them. Before, you'd basically pull them out of a box. Your EQ guy would have 30 minutes with him. He'd kind of brush it down one really, really well. And then the second one, get a little bit of time. The third one was basically just fresh out of the box. But you'd really only ever kick one ball, especially 18T. No one's the net's go way high enough. You're never losing a ball and nothing's ever getting rained on.

So there's no reason to use anything other than ball one. But now we get three balls that we can put into the game. They can be used three games, and we can pretty much practice to them year-round. They just have to kind of be inspected to make sure they're not over certain, like, they want it to be a certain shape. They don't want it to take it outside and balloon it up or anything like that. So, yeah, we're just able to kind of beat our balls up. in practice so the leather's nice and supple for us and um they'll travel further that way um yeah

Chris Boswell hit a 60 yarder the other night I think someone surprised by that yeah plenty of room um yeah so it's alleged that these will go farther somebody said that McAfee said kickers will get 10 to 15 extra yards of distance do you buy that that feels like I don't buy that feels like a McAfee level. That's an exaggeration for sure. Our guys did a great job with that first ball I was talking about. So each week we'd have a pristine ball one. We'll probably squeak maybe an extra two or three yards out of it for,

but anything beyond that is kind of ridiculous. Like 15, no one's kicking balls that are straight out of the box, never being touched previously. If they are, they need to seriously look at themselves in the mirror because their EQ staff hates them. So I noticed you pregame, you go out for your warm-ups, you banger and Trent, and that's when the giant Lombardi Trophy inflatables go up, and they dim the stadium, they get the bird flying around. So were you all aware that all that was going to go on, or were you just kind of just staying in there waiting until it was over? Yeah, that was the circus. You figured there'd be some sort of circus.

I didn't know what it was going to look like or when it was going to be. I figured it would be kind of right around the national anthem or after the national anthem. So their team could be out there to watch it. It was kind of weird that they dropped a banner without the team that wanted on the field. So that surprised me. But there's always, especially in the Cowboy Stadium, something stupid going on at a half time that we've got to kick around. So we're nothing we're not used to. just got to find a little bit of space for for that one there was so much on the field there wasn't

really any room to kick a kick balls for me brian and trent used the the sideline area but i just went to like 50 yard line and kicked one and i'm good to go because we you go through your full warm up like an hour before that point anyway so you just go back out there and the wind actually had changed significantly so i did want to kind of kick a few balls but um i figured it would die once the rain started and again it did it did die but like the wind changed like four or five times that game was kind of weird so I did want to hit more balls than the normal it was really funny watching you all because it just went dark and green somehow and then I don't know you just like okay I guess I guess we're done here I'll just stand here and watch it was it was fun it was a good

celebration hopefully you can have something like that in AT&T sometime during my career it was another weird situation for you guys too with the layoff so just a ton of scoring in the first half the field goal felt like all right you're going to be kicking a lot this year with DAC back if there's one thing I'm sure of as at least fan I feel like we're going to be kicking off a lot

and then the delay comes however that impacted each side of the ball there's no more kicking what's going on in the delay did you contribute to the uncrustable consumption what's somebody pop on a movie what are we doing yeah the delay we're just trying to figure out how long it's going to be i popped off my cleats and pads immediately and just tried to get comfortable um as comfortable as possible we'll see

the chiropractor get stretched out a little bit um and then just turn the brain off and scroll mindlessly on the phone um until we have word of when we're going to go back out there we got like a 20 minute warning so started stretching again and then um run back on the field and and get another brief warm-up. And it was like my fourth warm-up of the day, which is not easy on the body. But the incrustable count was not, I was not contributing to that. I had an actual, they brought in turkey and cheese sandwiches, which had a bunch of stuff on it. It was actually really good, probably from the club section or whatever sweets. It was nice. It hit the spot. We had chicken tenders in the press box. Just let me know next time. I'll bring you some food.

that would be nice so do you do you eat like on the flight home blake was telling us about that and we've been on some flights with like the dallas stars and whatnot and when you're flying at two a m there are full meals to be served and if the media guys eat them they turn into fat media guys because we don't burn the kind of calories you guys do you probably don't burn the kind of calories you know, that DAC does or whatever during a game, I would imagine, right? Yeah, I don't eat that meal on the way home from the primetime games. They have some food waiting for us before the buses, before the plane. So I had some Philly cheese steaks.

I ate that. It was probably like 12 o'clock, a little bit more reasonable. I ate that and then hopped on the plane and tried my best to sleep. But I can't sleep on the plane. It's a problem. So I stood there staring at the, the, seat in front of me. Blake said he ate food that was off limits to him, he thinks.

Brandon, I found out there's some food that's just for y'all. Oh. There's only one way to find that out. What did you eat? What is that? I grabbed a jersey mic's on the way out, not knowing that. There's always leftovers, I'm sure. Just come in really late and they'll be trying to get rid of it, I'm sure. Okay.

Well, I got some weird looks, as I did in the hotel when I was trying to meet up. No one told you no? No, dude. My first trip, I had a lot of finding out to do. A lot of weird looks from people, but I'm learning. Well, next time, if you want one, just text me what you want. I'll grab it and drop it off your seat. That's my guy.

Did you see Blake on the plane? I saw him on the way home, not on the way there. Yeah, he walked by him. I see, where are you sitting? I'm like maybe 10 or 15 rows behind you. Okay. And these guys made it seem like I was in the wrong. I thought I gave you a fist bump and told you you made good kicks.

He's an NFL player. But he's my, I know him. After the game, okay? Do you want me to leave you alone? No, that's fine. That's the most reasonable thing. I think just about everyone stops by and says something. So I probably talk to like 10 people as they walked by.

It's not a big deal. In my head, he's just, he's kicking field goals in his head the whole time. After the game. He can't have these. He's kicking balls through a tire in his head. Him and Trent. Him and Trent were just shooting. After the game on the plane.

at home we're having a beer and trying to relax because we're just balls of stress at that point so we're trying to calm down our bodies as best as possible and talking I mean I'm not a big talker but talking helps so Blake said there's like a section a special section for like if you're a top player of the game you might get a better seat on the way home is that true um no they have assigned seating they have like seniority in um the first class and then I'm in the business class which has like 15 guys and there's probably like 15 seats in first class 15 player seats in the business class and then everyone else is

behind the media in the back so I used to sit in like 37d for my first two years and this is the first time I got got bumped up which it's kind of crazy to think just just takes two seasons to get bumped up to business that's kind of how fast careers are in the NFL just a reminder to kind of hold on and cherish each moment you know what they say it stands for yeah not for long