Sacking quarterbacks has always been fun for Micah Parsons but on Sunday, it will be bittersweet.
The superstar pass rusher downplayed his upcoming return to Dallas expressed his feelings about potentially taking down his friend and former teammate Dak Prescott with The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“It’s going to be painful,” Parsons told the AP about getting a chance to sack Prescott. “That’s 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’ll be a great matchup, so I’m excited to see what Sunday brings itself.”
Parsons has downplayed the game and is planning treating it like an ordinary game, thought it’ll be his first time inside AT&T Stadium as a visiting player.
“I accepted my fate weeks ago when the trade happened,” Parsons said. “So, for me, it’s just all about playing another game and just doing what I do best, and that’s 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.”
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 four-year, $188 million contract that includes $136 million guaranteed.
The Cowboys (1-2) have struggled without Parsons, especially on defense. They’ve allowed the third-most yards (397.7 per game), most passing yards (288) and sixth-highest points (30.7).
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 Detroit Lions in Week 1. The Packers defeated the Washington Commanders soundly 27-18 four days later. But the offense couldn’t get on track in a 13-10 loss at the Cleveland Browns in Week 3.
“Besides the fans, just the teammates, the support staff, I mean they made this transition so great and I’m 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’ve been playing really good football so far, so that helps and I just hope we continue that,” Parsons said.
