Cowboys icon DeMarcus Ware says Micah Parsons won't do podcast during season if he joins coaching staff

Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Demarcus Ware sat down with Fox News Digital to discuss the state of the franchise and what needs to change to get the team back to the Super Bowl.

The Dallas Cowboys are looking for new leaders to save them from disarray. One of their old leaders thinks he has some solutions. 

Former Dallas linebacker and Hall of Famer Demarcus Ware told Fox News Digital he may look to join the next Cowboys coaching staff under a specific condition. He wants his former teammate Jason Witten to be the team's head coach. 

"I'm vouching for him right now to be head coach, he might vouch for me to come over and some kind of defensive coach," Ware said in an exclusive interview. "There is a 94% chance that if Jason Witten becomes head coach, that Demarcus is very interested in coming over there as well." 

Witten has been a head coach at the high school level since 2021, when he took over Liberty Christian High School in Argyle, Texas. Witten reportedly turned down multiple assistant coach openings with NFL and college programs to take the Liberty Christian job, according to ESPN. 

Meanwhile, Ware served as a pass-rush consultant on the Denver Broncos coaching staff in 2018. 

If Ware were to join a hypothetical coaching staff led by Witten, Ware says he would prioritize the handling of current star linebacker Micah Parsons. Ware says the Cowboys' defense has lacked the "lightning bolt" from Parsons that it needs to compete for a Super Bowl. 

"If he can become consistently on the field and play like he plays at the beginning of the season, he's like the electricity that the team needs to just wake up," Ware said. "If we can get him consistently playing on defense, they would win more football games and take the