{"id":343832,"date":"2025-09-05T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/343832\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:14:10","slug":"jerry-jones-responds-to-whether-cowboys-missed-micah-parsons-in-loss-to-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/343832\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones responds to whether Cowboys missed Micah Parsons in loss to Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cowboys had their first taste of life without Micah Parsons<\/a> on Thursday against the Philadelphia Eagles. Dallas\u2019 team owner Jerry Jones was encouraged by what he saw.<\/p>\n

While there were some hiccups, Jones believes the Cowboys can handle the storm and the difficulties of not having their star player on the team any longer. While he relented in saying that his talent is missed, he gave some love to Parsons\u2019 replacements, and the Dallas defense as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime you have a great player, (you miss) when you don\u2019t have him on the field. I was watching a lot of the guys that were picking up the slack. Might\u2019ve been No. 54 (Sam Williams<\/a>). No. 54 had a really significant impact on their offense. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll in all, this group adjusted. Made the adjustments. We stepped up in the second half on defense. Didn\u2019t quite get it done in the first half. But that type of performance was encouraging. I\u2019m sorry though that we lost the game. \u2026 I\u2019m pretty proud of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were certain plays where Parsons would\u2019ve come in handy, especially in the first half, but the Cowboys defense showed some promise throughout the game. Perhaps they\u2019ll be able to compete without Parsons after all.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re 0-1 at the moment, with the New York Giants coming to town in Week 2. Jones will be hoping the added time off helps Dallas get their first win of the season, and avoid two division losses to start the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

More on Micah Parsons, new home in Green Bay<\/p>\n

In an alternative universe, Parsons could\u2019ve actually been a Philadelphia Eagle.\u00a0ESPN\u2018s\u00a0Adam Schefter\u00a0said on Get Up\u00a0that the Cowboys\u2019 rival was aggressive in their pursuit of Parsons. However, Dallas didn\u2019t want to make a trade with a rival it sees twice per season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s certainly interesting because when the Dallas Cowboys were looking to trade Micah Parsons,\u201d Schefter said. \u201cOne of the teams that showed the most interest in trading for Micah Parsons was the Philadelphia Eagles. They were fairly aggressive in trying to trade for Parsons, but the Dallas Cowboys, obviously, were not interested in trading Micah Parsons back to Pennsylvania, back in the division. They wanted him out of the division.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Parsons is a Packer. The NFL world awaits to see if he will make his debut this Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Parsons, who has been dealing with a back injury, was listed as a limited participant on Thursday\u2019s\u00a0injury report<\/a>. His status for Sunday is still up in the air: \u201cIt\u2019s completely up to the coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parsons added, \u201cI\u2019m still ramping up. It\u2019s a process of getting ready for football being out for six months. Obviously going through the tightness, the soreness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 On3\u2019s Nick Geddes contributed to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys had their first taste of life without Micah Parsons on Thursday against the Philadelphia Eagles. Dallas\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,15747,6,62123],"class_list":{"0":"post-343832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-micah-parsons-18-harrisburg","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sam-williams-19-robert-e-lee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115152110606049269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}