Parsons leaves Dallas 'disappointed' by defense, tie

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Micah Parsons got 1 happening helium wanted successful his instrumentality to AT&T Stadium: He sacked his erstwhile quarterback, Dak Prescott. The remainder of it, however, near him unfulfilled aft his caller team, the Green Bay Packers played his aged team, the Dallas Cowboys, to a 40-40 tie connected Sunday night.

While immoderate connected some sides weren't definite however to consciousness astir a necktie successful which the 2 teams kicked tract goals successful overtime -- the Packers with conscionable a 2nd to spare astatine the extremity of the other league aft they astir mismanaged their mode retired of clip -- Parsons' feelings were clear.

"I'm not adjacent going to lie, I'm pissed off," Parsons said. "I'm precise disappointed, conscionable wide however we performed."

He wasn't talking astir the Packers' offense. He said helium fundamentally apologized to backmost Jordan Love, who threw for 337 yards and 3 touchdowns.

"I adjacent told Jordan to the side, you know, 'Thank you for having our backmost today,'" Parsons said. "You know, that's wherefore it's truthful pivotal to, you cognize you play complementary football. Because today, Jordan played similar the subordinate helium was, and we fto him down. We didn't unrecorded up to the level of anticipation connected defense."

Facing his aged squad astir precisely a period aft helium was traded to the Packers pursuing an offseason-long declaration quality with Cowboys proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones, Parsons finished with 4 pressures -- 2 of which came successful overtime, erstwhile helium sacked Prescott who was trying to scramble connected second-and-goal astatine the Packers' 4-yard line. The sack mightiness person saved a touchdown due to the fact that aft Prescott threw incomplete connected 3rd down, the Cowboys kicked their chip-shot 22-yard tract extremity to onslaught archetypal successful overtime.

In a crippled that featured 7 pb changes -- the astir successful a necktie successful NFL history, according to ESPN Research -- Prescott's 319 yards and 3 touchdowns conscionable astir matched Love's numbers. The Packers pressured Prescott connected 14 of his 41 dropbacks (34%), yet it hardly fazed him. He completed 10 of 13 passes for 121 yards and six archetypal downs erstwhile pressured.

"You look however precise No. 4 looked tonight, conscionable getting done his throws, getting to his receivers, the timing," Parsons said. "I deliberation helium played a amended crippled than we played defense. So, you know, outcry retired to Dak, and I told him, I said, 'You spell ticker that film. You fortunate if you wasn't connected your s---, it would've been a agelong day, it would've been a existent agelong time for you,' but helium played a hellhole of a game, and I springiness him kudos for that."

Beyond the postgame embraces and conversations with respective of his erstwhile teammates, including Prescott and trading jerseys with Trevon Diggs, Parsons said determination were nary different emotions successful his instrumentality to his NFL location for the archetypal 4 years of his career.

"You know, honestly, I deliberation each successful all, the emotions for maine being successful Dallas went distant the infinitesimal they traded me," Parsons said.

Parsons ne'er mentioned Jones by name, but arsenic helium has said connected galore occasions since the trade, helium noted helium has not talked to Jones successful months.

"He couldn't archer maine arsenic a antheral [about the trade]," Parsons said. "So to...