Parsons on sacking Dak: 'It's going to be painful'

Sacking Dak Prescott would beryllium bittersweet for Micah Parsons.

The two-time All-Pro walk rusher downplayed his upcoming instrumentality to Dallas and expressed his feelings astir perchance taking down his person and erstwhile teammate successful a speech with The Associated Press connected Tuesday.

Parsons and the Green Bay Packers (2-1) look disconnected against Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys (1-2) successful beforehand of a nationalist tv assemblage connected Sunday night.

"It's going to beryllium painful," Parsons told the AP astir getting a accidental to sack Prescott. "That's my guy. He was ever similar a bully mentor for me. But you cognize however it is. He ever told maine if I ever faced him that it'll beryllium a large matchup, truthful I'm excited to spot what Sunday brings itself."

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Parsons plans to dainty it similar an mean game, though it'll beryllium his archetypal clip wrong AT&T Stadium arsenic a visitor.

"I accepted my destiny weeks agone erstwhile the commercialized happened," Parsons said. "So, for me, it's conscionable each astir playing different crippled and conscionable doing what I bash best, and that's conscionable beryllium a disruptive shot player. I deliberation the media and the fans are trying to stroke it up to beryllium specified a large thing. But I conscionable look astatine it arsenic conscionable different crippled astatine AT&T."

Just a crippled that was circled connected everyone's calendar aft Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones traded Parsons to the Packers 1 week earlier the NFL's play opener, ending a lengthy declaration dispute.

The Packers accrued their Super Bowl hopes with Parsons and made the 26-year-old the highest-paid non-quarterback successful NFL past by signing him to a four-year, $188 cardinal declaration that includes $136 cardinal guaranteed.

The Cowboys (1-2) person struggled without Parsons, particularly connected defense. They've allowed the third-most yards (397.7 per game), astir passing yards (288) and sixth-highest points (30.7).

Despite missing each of grooming campy and arriving successful Green Bay a week earlier the archetypal game, Parsons made an contiguous interaction connected defence successful a 27-13 triumph implicit the two-time defending NFC North champion Detroit Lions successful Week 1. The Packers defeated the Washington Commanders soundly 27-18 4 days later. But the discourtesy couldn't get connected way successful a 13-10 nonaccomplishment astatine the Cleveland Browns successful Week 3.

"Besides the fans, conscionable the teammates, the enactment staff, I mean they made this modulation truthful large and I'm conscionable highly honored and blessed to beryllium with specified a large radical of guys that privation to triumph and that conscionable privation to play shot and I deliberation we've been playing truly bully shot truthful far, truthful that helps and I conscionable anticipation we proceed that," Parsons said.