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Prescott knows the Cowboys’ matchup with the Packers is bigger than his battle with Parsons.
FRISCO, Texas — Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys will face each other this weekend when the Green Bay Packers come to town for Sunday Night Football. Now that you’ve officially heard that headline 1,000,001 times, let’s get one more player’s perspective on it — namely Dak Prescott.
The former longtime teammates will, for the first time in their NFL careers, line up against each other in a regular season contest and that means Prescott won’t have the benefit of a red practice jersey to force Parsons into pulling his punches.
So when Parsons said this week that sacking Prescott “will be painful”, Prescott’s response was a rightfully awkward humor.
“I hope not for me,” he said with a laugh. “And I hope he doesn’t get to me for one.”
That’s the thing, though: Parsons will find himself getting the kitchen sink thrown at him by head coach Brian Schottenheimer and offensive coordinator Klayton Adams to try and slow him down and/or throw him off of his game entirely.
“I’m just excited to go and have that match up, but he’s got five guys up front, plus tight ends, and running backs that he’s got to get through,” said the All-Pro quarterback. “Then we’ll worry about if he can get to me. It takes all of us to protect, myself included. We all know that. Nothing changes this week.
“He’s a hell of a player. We respect that. And he’ll have some attention.”
Clark was a big loss for the Packers in more ways than one.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Nobody calls it the Kenny Clark trade.
The deal Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones and Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst struck on Aug. 28 will forever be remembered as the Micah Parsons trade, and rightfully so. Parsons is one of the best players of this generation and a future Hall of Famer if he continues on his current trajectory. Jones dealing Parsons to the Packers in his prime is one of the most seismic trades in league history.
But as the Packers embark on a trip to Dallas for Sunday Night Football this week and Parsons faces his former team in his former home stadium, it’s worth remembering that Clark was no slouch during his nine years in Green Bay.
The 29-year-old was the Packers’ longest-tenured player, the lone holdover from the Mike McCarthy era as a 2016 first-round pick. A three-time Pro Bowler in 2019, 2021 and 2023, Clark inked three separate contracts in Green Bay, a sign he’ll one day be inducted into the...
