It’s been a tough season for Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys. Over the past five games, Dallas has dropped each contest and lost quarterback Dak Prescott for the season in the process.
In his first two games, when he took over the starting position, Cooper Rush lost by a combined score of 68-16 at home against the Philadelphia Eagles and Houston Texans.
But Week 12 was different, as the Cowboys finally pulled off a win for the first time since traveling to Pittsburgh on Oct. 6, defeating the Washington Commanders 34-26.
Parsons, after missing four games with an ankle injury, returned in the midst of the Dallas five-game losing streak. Even without Prescott, the former Penn State Nittany Lions star never lost hope in his team and confirmed that even further with a warning to the rest of the league following the win over their NFC East rival.
“Like I said we ain’t done,” Parsons wrote on X with three shushing emojis.
Parsons, the three-time All-Pro pass rusher, helped guide Dallas to its fourth win of the season with one of his better statistical outputs of the year. The star finished with a season-high eight tackles, two sacks and two stuffs.
The Cowboys vs. Commanders was definitely one of the more chaotic games of 2024. Both teams combined for 38 points in the final 5:16 of action, including a 99-yard kick return touchdown by Dallas receiver KaVontae Turpin and an 86-yard catch and run by Washington star Terry McLaurin, which was proceeded by a missed game-tying extra point with 21 seconds left.
Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons
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The Cowboys have now jumped to 4-7 on the year and have one of the easier stretches of their schedule on the horizon. Over their next four games, they will get the New York Giants, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, all of which hold a record of below .500.
If Dallas can string together a few more wins, it will be right back in the thick of the playoff race.
