“I’m sorry to tell him he’ll never get it back.”

Dallas Cowboys have healthy competition in their locker room for the 2022 NFL season.

Defensively, Demarcus Lawrence said he wanted to get his Cowboys leader back from midfielder Mika Parsons, saying he “let a rookie show up last year”.

He is no longer a rookie, Parsons offered his rebuttal: Come and get him.

“It makes me want to compete,” Parsons said of Lawrence’s comments, according to Dallas Morning News’s Calvin Watkins. “It’s healthy for the locker room. I want D-Law to strengthen. I want D-Law to be what it is. I won’t take that away from him. But I’m sorry to tell him he’ll never get it back. I want him to get all the pleasure he can get to feed his head so he can be a man with 10 sacks, great. But if 10 is the number, I go for 20. You just have to get out there and we’ll compete. It will just be a quarterback race, like it or not. I am excited.”

Lawrence generated three sacks while playing only seven games in 2021 due to injury. Parsons scored 13 as a rookie who played in several places in the Cowboys. In eight seasons in Dallas, Lawrence has scored more than eight jackets just twice, with a career record of 14.5 in 2017.

As the Cowboys try to repeat themselves as champions in the NFC Eastern Division, two of their best defensive players compete to see who can reach the quarterback first, will only help D Quinn’s D, who seeks to improve the impressive turnaround he saw in 2021