The Green Bay Packers are facing the Dallas Cowboys on ‘Sunday Night Football’ in a Week 4 matchup that will pit Micah Parsons against his former team for the first time.
Parsons will be tasked during the contest with trying to get after Dak Prescott, who served as a friend and mentor to the 26-year-old during their four seasons together in Dallas.
That’s why Parsons knows he will feel mixed emotions if he is able to sack Prescott during Sunday’s contest.
‘It’s going to be painful,’ Parsons explained in a Tuesday interview with the Associated Press. ‘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 appears less sentimental about playing in AT&T Stadium as a visitor for the first time since the blockbuster trade that sent him from the Cowboys to the Packers.
‘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.’
Parsons has, thus far, achieved his goal of being disruptive with the Packers. He has generated 19 pressures – second-most in the NFL behind Denver Broncos edge rusher Nik Bonitto – and 1.5 sacks across his first three games.
The Cowboys have allowed Prescott to be pressured 45 times – ninth-most in the NFL – through three games, so expect to see Parsons in the backfield often against his former teammates.