“We’ve been good in the area of turnover ratio,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “I mean, minus-10 makes me sick. It actually does. That’s not what I believe in. I think my track record speaks to that. All I know how to do is keep working.”

It was Parsons’ words, not his play, that stole the spotlight. Parsons was asked after the game about the job status of head coach Mike McCarthy, which is understandably a topic of interest as the Cowboys fell to 3-6 in McCarthy’s final year of his contract.