The Micah Parsons-Dallas Cowboys divorce seems to be only be getting more bitter as time goes by.
While anticipation over the two sides meeting again on the field at AT&T Stadium reached fever pitch leading up their Week 4 primetime showdown, the game itself didn’t see the four-time Pro Bowler having a huge impact on the outcome.
And although Parsons enjoyed brief interactions with a few of his former teammates immediately following the 40-40 tie, he took time during his postgame press conference to take extra shots at Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for the way his Aug. 28 trade went down.
“All in all, the emotions for me being in Dallas went away the moment they traded me,” Parsons told reporters after his first return to the building as a visiting opponent.
That’s a very different tune than the one Parsons was singing one month ago, following the blockbuster deal that sent him to Green Bay in exchange for defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round draft picks.
“I never wanted this chapter to end,” Parsons wrote in a social media post to fans in the wake of the trade, “but not everything was in my control. My heart has always been here, and it still is.”
The Cowboys owner had been similarly heartfelt, calling Parsons one of the players he had enjoyed dealing with most.
Things were noticeably frosty, though, once reporters caught up to Jones in the stadium tunnel after Sunday night’s thriller. Asked about choosing to give Prescott a record-breaking contract last year but not doing the same for Parsons this summer, the billionaire was blunt.
“It’s very simple,” Jones said. “Dak was indispensable, in my mind. And Micah wasn’t.”
And by the time Parsons hit the podium, it was difficult to even remember a time when Parsons ever expressed his undying love for the organization and his allegiance to the man who runs it.
“When [Packers GM Brian Gutekunst] told me he was trading for me, he said, ‘Let me call Kenny before it breaks,'” Parsons relayed. “I didn’t even get to talk to my owner, the person that drafted me. I found out through my agent. … The same way he called me in his office as a man, he couldn’t tell me as a man. So to me, that emotion side was gone; it was more about a respect factor.”
Parsons finished Sunday night’s contest with one solo tackle, two assists, one sack, and three QB hits. The only time he truly got to Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was in the overtime period, chasing down Prescott from behind at the Packers’ four-yard-line. NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth theorized that it was a touchdown-saving tackle, but it’s difficult to know for sure; one and possibly two other Packers defenders might have had a play on him, too.
After the game, Prescott was surprised that his former teammate had been credited with a sack on the scramble.
“No way,” he said to Melissa Stark before blowing the moment off. “That’s all right. He can have it.”
With the Week 4 reunion now in the rearview, Parsons and the Cowboys can perhaps finally go their separate ways for the remainder of the 2025 season. And based on some of the comments following Sunday’s head-to-head, maybe that’s for the best.
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This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: ‘He couldn’t tell me as a man’: Micah Parsons rips Cowboys’ Jerry Jones for trade handling
Reporting by Todd Brock, Cowboys Wire / Cowboys Wire
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