{"id":111009,"date":"2025-09-01T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111009\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:13:08","slug":"dak-prescott-wasnt-completely-surprised-by-micah-parsons-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111009\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott wasn’t “completely surprised” by Micah Parsons trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said of Micah Parsons, \u201c11 is a Cowboy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now? Not.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say I was completely surprised<\/a>, but I definitely didn\u2019t think he was going to get traded,\u201d Prescott told reporters on Sunday regarding the Parsons trade, via Ali Jawad of ALLDLLS.com. \u201cJust with the way our negotiations went down, and to some extent it seemed like it got personal on their end. So, that\u2019s why I wasn\u2019t surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prescott stopped short of parroting the party line that Parsons being gone could make the Cowboys better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to say we\u2019re better<\/a>,\u201d Prescott said, via Todd Archer of ESPN.com. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to go out there and prove it. We had to prove it even if he was on this team, so I\u2019m not going to say that by any means.\u201d <\/p>\n

Prescott then added something that underscores the perception (as mentioned by former Cowboys coach Jason Garrett on Friday\u2019s PFT Live) that Parsons possibly wasn\u2019t the leader the Cowboys needed him to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what adding a guy like Kenny Clark, adding a true leader, a real man that\u2019s going to only elevate this team, who\u2019s been a Pro Bowl player and is excited about being here [means],\u201d Prescott said, per Archer.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want to read too much into that quote. But the words can\u2019t be ignored. The situation got to the point that Parsons didn\u2019t want to be in Dallas. And it appeared that he\u2019d rely on his back injury to justify not playing, until he got the trade he wanted.<\/p>\n

Either way, it\u2019s done. And, with Parsons now on the Packers, a reunion is looming quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got paid very well and great for him and his family,\u201d Prescott said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll see him here in about a month.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four weeks, to be precise. On Sunday Night Football on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said of Micah Parsons, \u201c11 is a Cowboy.\u201d Now? Not. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-111009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}