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Packers' Micah Parsons not upset Cowboys won't recognize his return
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Packers’ Micah Parsons not upset Cowboys won’t recognize his return

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  • Rob DemovskySep 24, 2025, 05:52 PM ET

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      Rob Demovsky is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2013. Demovsky is a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the NSSA.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — No tribute, no problem.

That’s how Micah Parsons said he feels about his former team not doing anything to recognize his return to Dallas as a member of the Green Bay Packers to play his old team, the Cowboys, on Sunday night.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said this week that the team has no plans to honor Parsons, who played four seasons for the Cowboys before he was traded to the Packers shortly before the season following a contract dispute.

“No, there’s a lot of things I can consider disrespectful throughout this process, but I wouldn’t say the tribute is one of them,” Parsons said Wednesday. “I would say, I just think there’s hard feelings maybe there for them. But for me, I’m happy where I’m at and we got a really good football team, so I guess I can [receive] my tribute in a win, I hope.”

Sunday will be the first time Micah Parsons plays at AT&T Stadium without the Cowboys star on his uniform. John Fisher/Getty Images

Parsons also said he’s not concerned about how he will be received by Cowboys fans on Sunday.

“You know, I think Dallas loves me,” Parsons said. “I think they’re going to give me a good round of applause. There’s no hard feelings there, at least from me, and I think it’s going to be, like I said, it’s going to be a great atmosphere.”

While Parsons still has plenty of friends and family in the Dallas area, he did not have any trouble getting tickets because he still has his suite at AT&T Stadium. He had already booked it for the 2025 season long before he ever thought he would be playing elsewhere.

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“No refunds,” said Parsons, who said he tried to get Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark, who went to Dallas in the trade, to rent the suite from him.

“The suite’s going to be packed out for sure,” Parsons said. “Trust me, I’ve got a big suite.”

Since his arrival, Parsons is tied for first in the NFL with 14 quarterback pressures, according to ESPN Research, and 1.5 sacks through three games. The Packers rank third in total defense.

The Packers (2-1) are coming off a loss to the Cleveland Browns in a game that they led by 10 points in the fourth quarter. That has helped the Packers stay focused on bouncing back rather than on Parsons’ return to Dallas.

“I don’t know what that feeling is like — going back to obviously the organization you played for, the team that drafted you — but I’m sure it’s probably a weird feeling for him,” Packers quarterback Jordan Love said. “But for the rest of us, just focus on another week for going 1-0.”



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Packers' Matt LaFleur wasn't happy with undefeated talk from team
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Packers’ Matt LaFleur wasn’t happy with undefeated talk from team

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  • Rob DemovskySep 22, 2025, 06:07 PM ET

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      Rob Demovsky is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2013. Demovsky is a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the NSSA.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur didn’t like what he saw on the field Sunday in his team’s 13-10 upset loss at the Cleveland Browns, and he didn’t like what he heard from his locker room last week.

That’s when Rasheed Walker used the “U” word after the Packers started 2-0 with convincing wins over a pair of NFC playoff teams from last season: the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders. The Packers left tackle suggested, “I think we can go undefeated, honestly.”

Considering one of LaFleur’s favorite phrases is to go 1-0 each week, it wasn’t a surprise to hear his response Monday.

“I’ve said it a million times to you guys — I don’t think I’ve obviously said it enough to our team — the goal is to go 1-0 every week,” LaFleur said Monday. “And it pisses me off when we start talking about things outside of the next game. Things that are way down the road. Like, focus on, keep the focus on the present, on the now, and worry about getting better each and every day.”

LaFleur did not mention Walker specifically, and Walker declined to comment after Sunday’s loss.

Matt LaFleur said Sunday’s loss was a good reminder to his Packers players to “pump the brakes on everything. We’re just trying to win one game at a time.” AP Photo/David Richard

“I think it’s always a good reminder, like, ‘Hey guys, pump the brakes on everything. We’re just trying to win one game at a time,'” LaFleur said. “And if you’re thinking [beyond that] or have your sights set on anything outside of that, I think you’re focused on the wrong things. Like, we’ve got to be focused on trying to get better. Obviously today, the focus is on first of all being honest about the tape and what the tape says, and then learning from that, and then it’s moving on.”

Perhaps the biggest thing that jumped out on tape was what happened on the 43-yard potential go-ahead field goal that the Browns blocked in the final minute. Several Browns players got significant push on the left side of the protection unit.

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“It comes down to just being disciplined and trusting your technique and what you’re coached to do on a daily basis,” LaFleur said. “Unfortunately, we got lifted, and we played with poor pad level, we didn’t take the correct steps and just didn’t perform the right technique. So if you don’t do that against a really good team that’s going to rush hard, you’re susceptible to having a catastrophic event occur.”

On the injury front, LaFleur said safety Javon Bullard is in the concussion protocol after leaving the game late in the fourth quarter.

Right tackle Zach Tom, who left after one play because of the oblique injury that kept him out the previous week, did not injure himself any worse.

“I would chalk it up to it’s hard to simulate what these guys are going to go against in the game,” LaFleur said of Tom, who was limited in practice last week. “We did our best in terms of trying to put them through enough and certainly had them going in practice, but still the game’s a different speed.”



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