The Green Bay Packers are staring down a brutal nine-game losing streak in every contest where All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons hasn’t started and finished. Man, that’s a tough look for a squad that was just starting to get it together.
The Parsons Effect: From Dominant to Disaster
This whole mess really started brewing late in 2024 when the Packers dropped their final three games. They tried to fix it big time, trading for Parsons right before the 2025 season kicked off. And for a minute, it worked! They rolled to a 9-3-1 record with Parsons absolutely tearing it up, racking up 12.5 sacks. But then came Week 15, a 34-26 loss to the Broncos, and the bottom fell out: Parsons tore his ACL and damaged his meniscus in his left knee. What a gut punch, right? After that, they lost their next four games in 2025, including a brutal 31-27 meltdown to the Bears in the postseason. Ouch.
Second Half Collapses Are Crushing This Team
Fast forward to the 2026 season opener, and it was more of the same pain. They got absolutely hammered 39-22 by the Vikings in another meltdown. Seriously, what is going on with this team when Parsons isn’t out there? In those nine games without him, they’ve been outscored by a staggering 152-73 in the second half and overtime. Think about that for a second. They just can’t hold it together! Only once in those nine games did they even outscore an opponent in the fourth quarter, and that was just a desperate rally attempt against the Vikings back in Week 17 of 2024. That’s not a trend, that’s a major problem.
Parsons is currently on reserve/physically unable to perform, and it looks like the Packers are stuck playing at least three more games without him. They’re hoping he can make a comeback in Week 6 against his former team, the Cowboys, but you gotta wonder if it’ll be enough. They desperately need that guy back on the field.
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Originally reported by Pro Football Talk.
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