Cowboys: Micah Parsons pushing coaching staff for more
Dallas Cowboys should learn something about Micah Parsons if they haven't by now. When he's on the field, there's no such thing as a routine play. Let me illustrate this with an example. Up by two possessions in the third quarter against the Chicago Bears, Justin Fields faced third down and seventeen 17 to go. […]
Dallas Cowboys should learn something about Micah Parsons if they haven't by now. When he's on the field, there's no such thing as a routine play. Let me illustrate this with an example.
Up by two possessions in the third quarter against the Chicago Bears, Justin Fields faced third down and seventeen 17 to go. Considering the Cowboys have the best pass rush in the league, it felt like a routine play that would result in a stop.
But Parsons isn't a guy to slow down when he's "out" of a play, which resulted in way more that a "stop." It resulted in a defensive touchdown for Dallas.
After Fields completed the pass over the middle to running back David Montgomery and linebacker Leighton Vander Esch forced the fumble, Parsons came out of nowhere to recover it.
Keep in mind, he recovered it at the Bears' 36-yard line. Moments before, when Fields stepped up to make the pass, Parsons had two blockers on him near the 10-yard line.
Yet he made it all the way to the loose ball before going on to score a defensive touchdown. Of course, during his return, he juked at least one Bears defender.
The whole thing was so wild that Parsons actually ran a distance of 92 yards during the entirety of the play, per Next Gen Stats via ESPN's Ed Werder.
If you think everyone on the Cowboys was happy about what went down, think again. Dak Prescott likes to think ahead and he knows exactly what it will mean for practice.
"Honestly, I'm like 'jeez', I'm going to hear this for a while about how he needs to run the ball and be on offense," said the Cowboys' quarterback about the play. He preceded it with a playful sigh of exasperation.
Parsons was naturally excited about his touchdown but he wants more opportunities to touch the football.
"(Ezekiel Elliott) said I looked just like him," the Cowboys' pass rusher said.
"I think I definitely deserve a rep now. They can’t say that they haven’t seen it in a game. Hopefully, I get thrown into a goal-line package or red-zone package. Hey, who knows?"
Hey, I'll tell you what.
We all witnessed a Texas-based defensive player catch a touchdown pass when J.J. Watt was inserted into Houston's offense so I'm definitely not dismissing the possibility.
In fact, I kind of need to see it now.
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