Sacking Dak Prescott would be bittersweet for Micah Parsons.<\/p>\n
The two-time All-Pro pass rusher downplayed his upcoming return to Dallas and expressed his feelings about potentially taking down his friend and former teammate in a conversation with The Associated Press on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Parsons and the Green Bay Packers (2-1) face off against Prescott and the Cowboys (1-2) in front of a national television audience on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be painful,\u201d Parsons told the AP about getting a chance to sack Prescott. \u201cThat\u2019s my guy. He was always like a good mentor for me. But you know how it is, he always told me if I ever faced him that it\u2019ll be a great matchup, so I\u2019m excited to see what Sunday brings itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parsons plans to treat it like an ordinary game, though it\u2019ll be his first time inside AT&T Stadium as a visitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI accepted my fate weeks ago when the trade happened,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cSo for me, it\u2019s just all about playing another game and just doing what I do best, and that\u2019s just be a disruptive football player. I think the media and the fans are trying to blow it up to be such a big thing. But I just look at it as just another game at AT&T.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just a game that was circled on everyone\u2019s calendar after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones traded Parsons to the Packers one week before the NFL\u2019s season opener, ending a lengthy contract dispute.<\/p>\n
The Packers increased their Super Bowl hopes with Parsons, and made the 26-year-old the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history by signing him to a $188 million, four-year contract that includes $136 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys (1-2) have struggled without Parsons, especially on defense. They\u2019ve allowed the third-most yards (397.7 per game), most passing yards (288) and sixth-highest points (30.7).<\/p>\n
Despite missing all of training camp and arriving in Green Bay a week before the first game, Parsons made an immediate impact on defense in a 27-13 win over the two-time defending NFC North champion Lions in Week 1. The Packers defeated Washington soundly 27-18 four days later. But the offense couldn\u2019t get on track in a 13-10 loss at Cleveland in Week 3. <\/p>\n
\u201cBesides the fans, just the teammates, the support staff, I mean they made this transition so great and I\u2019m just extremely honored and blessed to be with such a great group of guys that want to win and that just want to play football and I think we\u2019ve been playing really good football so far, so that helps and I just hope we continue that,\u201d Parsons said. <\/p>\n
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AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/p>\n
Rob Maaddi, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacking Dak Prescott would be bittersweet for Micah Parsons. The two-time All-Pro pass rusher downplayed his upcoming return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-164828","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\/164828","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=164828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}