Green Bay Packers edge-rusher Micah Parsons told reporters on Tuesday it would be “painful” sacking former teammate Dak Prescott during Week 4’s matchup between the teams, calling Prescott “my guy” and a “good mentor” during his time in Dallas.
Prescott, of course, is hoping that Parsons doesn’t have the chance.
“I hope it’s not (painful) for me. And I hope he doesn’t get to me,” he told reporters Thursday. “It’ll definitely be fun. It’s one me and my fiancée were just talking about the other day. Just all the reps of practice going against Micah, times when he couldn’t hit me, whether him getting back there, just the trash talk back and forth, me telling him he wouldn’t tackle me anyways, he still can’t bring me down. Just getting to go out there and compete with a guy that that’s a good friend, that I’ve competed with in numbers of ways throughout this building, outside of this building. Just excited to go and have that matchup. But he’s got five guys up front, plus tight ends and running backs that he’s got to get through. Then we’ll worry about if he can get to me.”
There’s a pretty good chance that Parsons will at least get a hit on Prescott—through three contests with the Packers he has six quarterback hits, 1.5 sacks and a tackle for loss. Given that he’s been with the team for less than a month and was given limited snaps to start the season, that’s pretty solid production.
And you have to imagine he’ll be motivated to torment his former team after the Cowboys chose to trade him to Green Bay rather than extending him. Prescott should probably keep his head on a swivel on Sunday night.
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