Dallas Cowboys’ Micah Parsons shares team’s mantra for upset vs. Cincinnati Bengals
The Cowboys held off Cincinnati, 20-17, Rush engineering a game-winning drive in the final minute that kicker Brett Maher’s 50-yard field goal sealed. Six sacks of Joe Burrow drove the performance.
“We just bought into each other and said, ‘F what everybody else thinks, this is about us,’” said linebacker Micah Parsons, who notched two sacks, five quarterback hits and four total tackles. “And I think we came out here and proved that.”
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The Cowboys next play at the Giants, against the Commanders, and at the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams. Beyond the four-game mark for Prescott awaits a Sunday night game in Philadelphia followed by home contests vs. the Lions and Bears.
Surprising offensive contributors and opportunistic defensive linemen give the 1-1 Cowboys more breathing room.
Parsons likened the team’s first 2022 win to a parable he heard in chapel Saturday.
“The chapel man said, ‘You have to go through tests to get to your testimony,’” Parsons said from his postgame locker. “I heard that and was like, ‘Wow, we’re going through all these injuries. Sometimes you’ve got to go through stuff to get where you want to go.’
“We’re still going through the storm but as you go through the storm, there’s going to be light at the end of the tunnel.
“I think that’s where we’re headed.”
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