sigh of relief<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s just kind of crazy,\u201d Mailata said. \u201cThe last four or five years we\u2019ve played the Dallas Cowboys, we\u2019ve come up with a game plan [for him] because Micah\u2019s a game wrecker. . . . However, that is a talented D-line and a talented defense, so you have to treat them with the same respect with or without Micah Parsons.\u201d<\/p>\n
It meshes with key insights from former Cowboys coach Jason Garrett on Friday\u2019s PFT Live. Teams need to have a plan for Parsons. They need to know where he is on every play, and they need to know how they\u2019re going to stop him. Or at least how they\u2019ll try.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni kept his cards a little closer to the vest when asked right out of the gates about the Parsons trade<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have so much going on here,\u201d Sirianni said, via quotes distributed by the team. \u201cWe\u2019re getting ready to play the Cowboys, so he\u2019s in your thoughts for game planning, but they still have guys that we have to prepare for. They have Kenny Clark, who\u2019s a really good player, and they have good depth at that defensive end group. You don\u2019t get too wrapped up in that except for some of the things you\u2019re doing with the game plan. But, also understanding that they have a lot of good players over there and getting ready for those guys and shifting your attention to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Eagles have avoided Parsons for now, they\u2019ll see him in Week 10, on Monday Night Football from Lambeau Field. And, frankly, his presence on the Packers could be more detrimental to the Eagles getting back to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
The Eagles were already objectively better than the Cowboys. The Packers gave the Eagles a pretty tough contest in the 2024 wild-card round. If they meet in the postseason again, Micah could end up being the difference-maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The short-term third-party beneficiaries of the Micah Parsons trade were the Eagles. They\u2019ll no longer have to face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-123824","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\/123824","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=123824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}