Prescott: Week 4 about Packers-Cowboys, not 'Dak vs. Micah' - ESPN

FRISCO, Texas — Earlier this week, Green Bay Packers pass rusher Micah Parsons said it would be painful to sack Dak Prescott, his good friend and mentor when they were Dallas Cowboys teammates, when they meet Sunday.

«I hope it's not [painful] for me,» Prescott said Thursday. «And I hope he doesn't get to me, for one.»

Parsons' return to face the Cowboys, the team that drafted him in the first round in 2021 then traded him to Green Bay on Aug. 28 after the sides couldn't agree to a long-term extension, has been the story of the week. So much so that Prescott's family has talked about it, too.

«It'll definitely be fun,» Prescott said. «Yeah, it's one me and my fiancée were just talking about the other day and just all the reps of practice, going against Micah in times when he couldn't hit me whether him getting back there, just the trash talk back and forth, me telling him he wouldn't tackle me anyways, he still can't bring me down. You got to get to that point.

»Just getting to go out there and compete with a guy that's a good friend, that I've competed with in numbers of ways throughout this building, outside of this building. Yeah, just excited to go and have that matchup. But he's got five guys up front, plus tight ends and running backs that he's got to get through. Then we'll worry about if he can get to me."

Prescott has been sacked just five times in three games, but he will be without two starting offensive linemen in right guard Tyler Booker (ankle) and center Cooper Beebe (foot) on Sunday. He also won't have his top playmaker, CeeDee Lamb, who is expected to miss three to four weeks with a high ankle sprain.

«It takes all of us to protect, myself included,» Prescott said. «We all know that. Nothing changes this