Micah Parsons shares powerful message that could take the Packers’ defense out of its comfort zone for good

Edge rusher leads the NFL in pressures per game.

Wendell Ferreira — NFL News Writer
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Sep 28, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; Green Bay Packers defensive end Micah Parsons (1) rushes the line during the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers at AT&T Stadium.
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The Green Bay Packers’ defense had been third in EPA/play and second in success rate over the first three weeks of the regular season. Well, Week 4 was a reality check that life in the NFL isn’t always easy. Nevertheless, after giving up 40 points to the Dallas Cowboys and the bye, the unit has another opportunity to show that the previous game was just an outlier.

For Micah Parsons, though, the answer has to come on the field. And the star edge rusher is ready to have a dominant performance. 

“You should be pissed off. Like, you’re sitting there pissed off because you’re getting 40 points and you’re talking about you can’t give up 20 and how we should lose games. But that’s how you lose games. We should be pissed off,” Parsons said. “We should be ready to come out here and play someday regardless of who’s playing and whoop some butt. We’re really dogs. That’s how I look at it. We really say who we want to be. We should take that last, how we finished last, and we should punish these guys. And we should want to leave a statement. It should be a statement win. It should be a statement on defense. Like, I just think it’s a statement.”

Micah Parsons’ key stats

  • 25 pressures
  • 2.5 sacks
  • 5 stops
  • 93.4 PFF pass rush grade

Consistency is key

Even though the Packers’ defense has shown clear signs of high-end potential, Parsons has the right message for his teammates. To be a truly transformative unit, the defense has to play at a high level week in and week out. And that starts with energy.

“Run into the ball. Like, that’s contagious,” Parsons added. “How we showed them statements those first couple weeks. I told the guys, be phenomenal or be forgotten. No one thinks about good defense. Don’t talk about good defenses. We’ve seen a lot of good defenses 11, 12 weeks of the year, they’re pretty good. But those other weeks, what did they look like? You think about those great defenses, those guys, the Ravens, Denver, Chicago, still get brought up because of what they did consistently for 17 weeks.”

Be phenomenal or be forgotten is a great sentence to motivate the locker room. And after two underwhelming collective games with a loss to the Cleveland Browns and a tie with the Dallas Cowboys, the roster seems ready to show what it’s truly capable of against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.

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