DeVante Parker has been all the talk in the last few days after the wide receiver dropped a perfect 50-yard pass from Mac Jones in the final minutes. And after the game, many felt he didn't take accountability for the play, instead providing a minor excuse, claiming he "got his fingertips on the pass."

Many people were upset over this response and it prompted a question to one former Patriots captain about the receivers' actions. 

"As a player, no I don't care what he says to the media," Devin McCourty said during his appearance on The Greg Hill Show on WEEI. "How is he in the locker room? What is he saying? What's his actions. Like that's way more important than what you decided to do when there's a bunch of cameras in your face." 

"Everybody's different when it comes to answering questions and talking to the media," McCourty added. "So, I wouldn't necessarily take that as the golden standard of what he said in front of the camera. I would take how he acts, what he does in the locker room, more seriously."

With that, McCourty added that what he might have said in the locker room to his fellow teammates is very different than what he said to the media. 

"He might have said that to the guys in the offensive meeting room. He might have come and said it to the team. I don't know. He might have said, 'My fault guys. Mac come back to me, I'm going to make that catch,'" McCourty explained. "For everybody else on the outside looking in, we're only seeing the energy of and I just don't think that energy was the end-all, be-all for the team."

With McCourty making these comments on Wednesday morning, Parker was given a chance to respond to what his former teammate said later that day following practice. 

"He's 100 percent right. Sometimes you don't tell it all, everything, to the media," Parker told A to Z Sports. "So you just move on, really move on and really look forward to next week."

"You just forget about it. It's over with. Next week. Next game."

So next game when that big play comes up, he has even more motivation to bring that catch in. 

"Yah, I'll say so," Parker said about the increased motivation on Sunday. "Just go out there. You have another chance, another stab at it. Just doing whatever I can to help the team."

Parker is known as one of the quieter guys in the locker room, which typically shows in media sessions. And that is exactly how another member of the organization acts around reporters as explained by McCourty. 

"Look at all the things Bill says in a press conference," McCourty said. "And like, I played on that team, a lot of that stuff is just him talking to the media. It's not what the actual team or what he's saying to the team, so I think that's way more important." 

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