Terrence Parsons Jr., the brother of Micah Parsons, set off a wave of backlash on X after weighing in on the reports surrounding Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs.
The controversy comes after reports surfaced that the district attorney’s office prosecuting Jacobs has video of the alleged battery involving his ex-girlfriend. The reaction around the league has been harsh, with many NFL fans - including plenty of Packers supporters - saying that if video exists showing Jacobs assaulting a woman, he should not be on the team.
Parsons took a very different position. In response to a user who said Jacobs should potentially be cut, he argued that people “gotta relax” and said “anger gets the best out of anyone” and that Jacobs deserved a second chance if the case is a misdemeanor.
“A shove? Y’all gotta relax… anger gets the best out of anyone… everyone deserves a second chance… misdemeanors at that,” Parsons wrote.
That didn’t go over well. Users on X pushed back immediately, with some insulting Parsons and others flatly rejecting his argument.
“Idk man shoving your girlfriend to the ground is kinda a huge lapse in emotion control,” one user remarked. “Second chances and consequences are not mutually exclusive,” another pointed out.
“You telling on yourself right now. Any man that would shove a woman is a coward,” wrote a third.
“I can proudly say I’ve never shoved a woman, or shoved a woman so hard she fell and hit her head. He’s a grown ass man, act like it.”
“You shouldnt slam your girlfriend into a garage door.”
Parsons kept defending himself in the comments, often responding with insults or repeating the idea that anger can overwhelm people. “Angry is a powerful emotion and the ones we love know how to hit those buttons alotta people have trouble controlling they emotions we all know this and it be the same people talking shit,” he wrote in one response.
He also brought up the Ray Rice elevator punch while arguing that Jacobs’ situation should not be treated the same way. “I’ll never be afraid to stand on what I believe in… yall act like he sucker punched that girl this ain’t a ray rice situation never said he was right but it ain’t right calling for that man’s career,” Parsons declared.
Not a good look. Not a good look at all.
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