Former Dallas Cowboys veteran DeMarcus Lawrence has found postseason success with his new team - just as he expected.
Remember when DeMarcus Lawrence was a beloved veteran on the defensive line of the Dallas Cowboys for over a decade?
Then remember his messy breakup with the team this past offseason? Where he and former teammate, now also-ex-Cowboy, Micah Parsons tussled on social media about the latter's internet presence bringing distractions into the locker room?
Yeah, us too.
Then, Lawrence infamously departed the Cowboys with a farewell message that half of Cowboys Nation reluctantly agreed with while the other half thought was an unnecessary jab.
"A change in scenery is always good, but Dallas is my home. I made my home there, my family lives there, I'm forever going to be there," Lawrence said during the offseason.
"But I know for sure I'm not going to win a Super Bowl there, so yeah. We here."
And by here, he means the Pacific Northwest, where he signed a $32.5 million contract with the Seattle Seahawks and anchors a top defense that just beat down the San Francisco 49ers 41-6 to advance to the NFC Championship...
Which means in Lawrence's one season with a new team, he's reached more conference titles games than his entire 11-year career in Dallas ... and more than the Cowboys' last 30 years overall.
Parsons' trade to the Green Bay Packers weeks after his feud with Lawrence would ultimately doom the Cowboys of ever fielding a competent defense for now-fired coordinator Matt Eberflus. Dallas ended 7-9-1 and out of playoff contention as the pass rush was nonexistent without Parsons or Lawrence.
Micah then unfortunately tore his ACL, resulting in his Packers tumbling to the end of the season on a losing streak, barely making the playoffs but getting bounced in a comeback effort by their hated rivals from Chicago.
Some Cowboys fans might still be rooting on Lawrence in Seattle. He is now teammates with DFW-bred wideout Jaxon Smith-Njigba and comeback story Sam Darnold.
But others will read his final goodbye letter to "America's Team" as cleanup for what his honest thoughts revealed prior.
"I always knew there was more left in me," Lawrence added back in March. "Just thinking and wanting a Super Bowl, it doesn't all come together if all the pieces ain't there. For me to have another opportunity to go and chase my dream to win a Super Bowl with a good team and the pieces are in place, I had to take my opportunity."
Can you blame him?
In the end, he's enjoying the last laugh that he figured he'd get all along.
