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Cowboys, Packers play to tie in OT thriller (1:31)The Cowboys and Packers combine for 80 points in a wild game that ends in a tie. (1:31)
ARLINGTON, Texas — Micah Parsons got one thing he wanted in his return to AT&T Stadium: He sacked his former quarterback, Dak Prescott. The rest of it, however, left him unfulfilled after his current team, the Green Bay Packers, played his former team, the Dallas Cowboys, to a 40-40 tie on Sunday night.
“I’m not even going to lie, I’m pissed off,” Parsons said. “I’m very disappointed, just overall how we performed.”
“I even told Jordan to the side, you know, ‘Thank you for having our back today,'” Parsons said. “You know, that’s why it’s so pivotal to, you know you play complementary football. Because today, Jordan played like the player he was, and we let him down. We didn’t live up to the level of expectation on defense.”
“You know, honestly, I think all in all, the emotions for me being in Dallas went away the moment they traded me,” Parsons said.
Parsons never mentioned Jones by name, but as he has said on numerous occasions since the trade, he has not talked to Jones in months.
Before the game, Parsons and Jones did not interact. Parsons did not walk onto the field until pregame warmups.
“It’s just not appropriate,” Jones said. “What are we supposed to do when we’re getting ready to play each other, all that’s at stake for him and all that’s at stake for our team, the Cowboys? That’s not appropriate to be visiting as you are getting ready to play.”
“Zero,” Prescott said. “Not at all. Not at all. Until afterwards and it was great, good talks afterwards, staying healthy, great job, it was fun competing against you. But no talks happened at all during the game.”
“It goes back to the plan,” Prescott said. “That it’ll be all hands on deck, whether it be the tight ends, whether it be the running backs. Honestly, there were one-on-ones, and those tackles did their job. Stepped up and did what they needed to do, kept him off, and kept him away from me.”
Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer did not reveal the plan, although tight end Jake Ferguson chipped Parsons multiple times before going out on a route, and the team used max protections to shore up the front at times.
“What a great player, man,” Schottenheimer said. “We’ve got other Micahs [as the year goes on], and I hope to see Micah again. I hope we see him down the line here again in January.”
“I knew that he is the great player that he is. And I like the way that we got ready to play him, played him and we ran at him, but we knew he was there,” Jones said. “He made a difference. But that’s the way it goes. Whether we like it or not, I’ll take my side of it and Green Bay can have their side of it.”
Cowboys, Packers play to tie in OT thriller (1:31)The Cowboys and Packers combine for 80 points in a wild game that ends in a tie. (1:31)
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Facing his former team almost exactly a month after he was traded to the Packers following an offseason contract dispute with Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, Parsons finished with four pressures — two of which came in overtime, when he sacked Prescott on second-and-goal at the Packers’ 4-yard line. The sack might have saved a touchdown because after Prescott threw incomplete on third down, the Cowboys kicked a 22-yard field goal to strike first in overtime.
And during the game, Parsons did not talk trash, either.
Not even after Parsons sacked Prescott in overtime.
“I didn’t know that was Micah quite on my back,” Prescott said.
The Cowboys and Packers combine for 80 points in a wild game that ends in a tie. (1:31)