GREEN BAY, Wis. — For a guy who wasn't even sure which end of the field to warm up on and didn't know the defense's signature pregame handshake, Micah Parsons sure looked like he knew what he was doing when it came to the football part of his debut with the Green Bay Packers.
Less than two weeks after the Dallas Cowboys traded their star pass rusher to Green Bay, Parsons got his first sack and was second on the team with three pressures in Sunday's season-opening 27-13 win over the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field.
He did it in just 29 of the Packers' 65 defensive snaps, which was actually more than coach Matt LaFleur had anticipated Parsons would play.
«I just feel like his presence out there was different,» Packers quarterback Jordan Love said. «The energy he brought to the crowd when they announced his name and then to able to get that sack was big time.»
To Parsons, however, it felt more like a relief than anything else after the tumultuous offseason he went through in Dallas as it pertained to stalled contract talks and a waiting game to see where he would play this season.
«I'm telling you, these last six months were super draining, super toxic for everyone,» Parsons said. «It's something that I don't think no player should have to go through. I think players' fates should be decided earlier. I think the fact that I was traded a week before the season was really outrageous and rough.
»It's something where I could've been with these guys getting better and better, and we could've had probably an even more dominant start if that was the decision we were going to make."
They also might have had time to tell Parsons about the pregame routine. When he came out for pregame warmups, Parsons went to the wrong end of the
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