Micah Parsons' brother convinced of ex-NFL QB's 'deep hatred' for Dak Prescott
For one reason or another, Dak Prescott has been a polarizing quarterback since taking on the mantle of being the Dallas Cowboys' chief signal caller. Despite finishing second in MVP voting to Lamar Jackson in 2023, it would seem the jury's still out on whether he can lead the Cowboys to the Lombardi Trophy.
That much was evident during a segment on ESPN's Get Up this week when former Detroit Lions QB and current ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky stopped short of naming Prescott in the top 5 NFC QBs list this year. Orlovsky said on the segment:
“You ask me to rank the NFC quarterbacks it’s Matthew Stafford one, I’d probably put Jordan Love at two and Brock Purdy at three. If you flip flop those guys, I’d have no argument. I’d put Kirk Cousins at four, Jared Goff at five."
Orlovsky's take on Dak Prescott certainly raised a few eyebrows among his colleagues on that segment with several of them disagreeing with his assessment. Micah Parsons' brother Terrence Parsons Jr. also joined that chorus after taking notice of a clip of that segment on social media platform X. Parsons Jr. tweeted:
"I'm convinced Dan has a deep hatred for Dak."
Dak Prescott ranked as 16th-best NFL player in 2024
The NFL ranked the Cowboys signal caller at 16 in the list of the top 100 players in 2024. The MVP runner-up was ranked above CJ Stroud, who had a historic rookie year, Brock Purdy and Justin Jefferson, though Jalen Hurts was ranked at #15 this year. Prescott's teammate CeeDee Lamb came in at #13.
That ranking, however, will likely not come in handy in contract negotiations.
At the time of writing, the Cowboys and Prescott appear to have made precious little headway over hammering out a contract extension. The last we heard from Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones was on Tuesday, July 30, when he said the ball is in Dak's court for now.
The pressure is certainly on the Cowboys to figure this out considering the QB market has ballooned this offseason. The title of the highest-paid NFL QB changed hands a couple of times this year after Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence and Jordan Love all signed extensions that bumped their salaries to an average of $55 million a year.
If all goes to plan for Dak Prescott, we may very well see the Cowboys QB become the NFL's first $60 million-a-year man.