FIRST TAKE | He chose right civilization – Stephen A: Packers are absolutely taking NFC with Parsons

FIRST TAKE | He chose right civilization – Stephen A: Packers are absolutely taking NFC with Parsons

against a mighty special team. And we have been talking about this man all morning long. George Pickkins has been everything that Jerry and the Cowboys had hoped for when they traded for him six months ago. He ranked second in the NFL in receiving yards, third in the NFL in touchdown receptions, enduring Dallas’s three-game win streak. Pickkins has hauled in 24 catches for 378 yards and two touchdowns. All right. Meanwhile, Micah Parsons obviously acquired by the Packers in that trade with from Dallas earlier in the offseason. He had two and a half sacks last night as we said. Two of those came crunch time in the fourth quarter to keep the Lions at bay here, keep them out of the end zone. With all of that in mind, when we weigh these two things, has the offseason acquisition of Pickkins been enough to mask the loss of Micah Parsons RC or how do you see this? Um, are we asking what’s the better acquisition or are we asking George Pickkins? Oh, let me show you how I’m standing then. Y’all know who do this after he get after he get one of his 12 and a half sacks on the season. Y’all see how Michael Parsons be standing over there after he get to Jared Golf? All the times he got to Jared Golf starting on the first week when he tracked him down like a freaking lion chasing a gazelle. It is Michael Parsons. And it’s not even a question. I get it. What George Pickkins is now doing for Dak Prescott is beautiful. You know, if CD Lamb is doubled up, the safety is leaning towards CD Lamb, George Pickkins can make plays. But guess what? George Pickkins is only in Dallas for a good time. Michael Parsons is in Green Bay for a long time. You’re going to build a tradition of winning around Michael Parsons. You’re going to continue to draft that defense and that offense and those special teams based on the fact that you know you have a historical player 12 plus sacks in the first five years of his career making history and becoming someone who’s going to have a jersey in Canton to state that that’s who Michael Parsons is. Michael Parsons has changed the entire face of this defense. This defense is now something that they can’t be and weren’t without him. Has Dak has uh Dak Prescott and George Piggin combination elevated Dallas? Yes, but not in the way I feel Micah Parsons has in Green Bay. Stephen, boy, you lying. Oh my god. Which one? Which one? Go ahead, Cam. Go ahead, Cam. Go ahead, Cam. Oh, y’all mad. Be mad. They just don’t have the room where they’re at in their remote studios to be able to stand up and do all the things. They can’t stand up like me. Exactly. Exactly. Well, unfor well, fortunately for this particular celebration, I don’t have to uh stand up because we’ve been seeing this all year. And it’s one of those things. It’s one of those things that when you say Ryan Clark, he’s here for a long time, not a short time. You don’t know that, so you can’t say that. What George Pickings, Mr. Crash, as I call him, has shown this year, he’s exceeded expectations. And you want to know who’s turning the clock and saying like, “Yo, that’s somebody that got away.” Well, ask the Pittsburgh Steelers. Your Pittsburgh Steelers, Ryan Clark. You’re Steelers, Stephen Anthony. If they if they would want uh George Pickis back, George Pickis has literally said, “Hey, hold on, CD Lamb. Hey, you straight, bro. Respectfully. Now, if you don’t dog on pick up your level of play, we have another person that’s going to force you to make sure that you pick up your level of play. Now, the thing that you start to think about and you start to say, like I said earlier, we’re not used to the Dallas Cowboys playing this way. We’re used to the Dallas Cowboys leaning on a a strong offensive line. We’re used to the Dallas Cowboys leaning on a run game. Well, this week or or this year, they’ve reverse engineered that. Instead of having a run game that opens up the pass game, we’re going to have a pass game that opens up the run game. So now when we do, if we do go to the playoffs in the Dallas Cowboys, we have something that we’ve never been able to attack teams with. Why? In the last 20 years, I look at is Terry Glenn and Terrell Owens an option? No, that’s not it. Is Miles Austin and Dez Bryan in Austin? No, that’s not it. Well, is Dez Bryan and Terence Williams an option? Absolutely. What about CD Lamb and Brandon Cooks? No, what George Pickkins and CD Lamb offers and gives the Dallas Cowboys is something that the Dallas Cowboys has never had in their whole overall existence. And that’s what makes this team completely different than any other team we’ve ever seen in Dallas. I get what you’re saying, but actually both of y’all are wrong. I think I think the answer to this question is determined by what’s gonna happen come playoff time. That’s what I believe. I think that both of them Let me explain. Let me explain. Allow me to explain. Both of them are so exceptional right now. Who what’s going to make us determine this? Think about this for a second. You want to go long term. We ain’t going long term. We in the here and now. Let’s live in the moment. I’m sure y’all can appreciate that. Okay. Let’s live in the moment. All right, let’s go with Michael Parson’s first, right? 12 and a half sacks. First player in NFL history to have at least 12 sacks his first his first five years in the NFL. First player in NFL history, not Reggie White, not Lawrence Taylor, nobody like that. Not Not Bruce Smith, not anybody. I mean, this brother right here. Okay, that’s number one. Number 35 pressures tied for first in the National Football League. Okay, quarterback hits tied for third. 12 tackles for a loss tied for fifth right now. last game 38 and a half% of his pass rushes on Thursday. Highest in the game since his rookie year. This is what the brother is doing. We’re talking about Micah Parsons. But let’s get to George Pickicket here. 1142 yards already. Eight touchdowns already. Second in receiving yards in the league behind in Jigba. 18 20 plus yard receptions. Tied for, you know, second behind in Jigba. Okay. 60 catches for first downs. Leads the National Football League. Careerhigh eight touchdown passes. third with 15.6 yards per reception, fifth in terms of his 68% success rate. Look at what the hell this man is doing. And look at what he did when CD Lamb was out. And look at what he did last week when CD Lamb struggled. What I’m saying to you is this. What he is supposed what a receiver can do in terms of maximizing his potential. This brother is doing that to the point where we got to look at the Steelers and say, “All right, management. The hell you let him go for?” Because you didn’t have a quarterback. Had you had a quarterback, he probably wouldn’t have wanted to leave. So you got to take that into consideration, right? But here we are in Dallas and we see what he’s doing and if Dallas makes a run and they get to the playoffs, oh my lord, particularly with that offense, we got to look the hell out. You on Green Bay, you Michael Paw says, “Yeah, your defense is looking all right. It looking is looking pretty spectacular actually. But Jordan Love stepping up or not, how much is it going to be contingent on that? We gonna find out. In the end, we got to look at Michael Parsons and George Pickkins. We know both are big time. We know both we know both has transformed the their respective you know offense defense etc. But the playoffs are going to tell us what time it is if both of them are there. Yep. Steve don’t show up. You know who really won in this? David Mulligetta. Because you remember what Jerry said.

FIRST TAKE | He chose right civilization – Stephen A: Packers are absolutely taking NFC with Parsons