{"id":120872,"date":"2025-08-30T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120872\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:59:08","slug":"kenny-clark-shocked-by-trade-but-glad-to-be-where-hes-wanted-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120872\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Clark &#8220;shocked&#8221; by trade but glad to be where he&#8217;s wanted in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys defensive tackle Kenny Clark had no idea he was going to be traded from Green Bay to Dallas as part of the Micah Parsons deal, but it didn\u2019t take him long to feel glad to become a Cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and head coach Brian Schottenheimer told him how excited they were to have him on the team, and he was enthusiastic about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/kenny-clark-is-here-to-ball-in-fresh-start-with-cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I was shocked<\/a>, but once Jerry and all those guys called me, Schotty and everybody, I just felt wanted. It\u2019s a blessing, I\u2019m appreciative of it.\u201d Clark said, via DallasCowboys.com.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is fired up and eager to help the Cowboys win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo nonsense, you\u2019re going to get a dawg, somebody that\u2019s just all about football,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI\u2019m here to ball. I\u2019m here to be my best self. I feel like when I\u2019m my best self, there\u2019s nobody messing with me. That\u2019s what I bring to the table, I\u2019m here to play my ass off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Jones has been widely criticized for trading Parsons away, Clark thinks he can be part of building something special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a historic franchise, I wouldn\u2019t want no other thing other than to be sitting here,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a chance to win a Super Bowl here and that\u2019s all I could ask for. That\u2019s what I want to do, I want to bring a Super Bowl back to the Cowboys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys defensive tackle Kenny Clark had no idea he was going to be traded from Green Bay to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-120872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}