Time heals all wounds is certainly a cliche, but it also appears to be the case regarding Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl edge rusher Micah Parsons and his willingness to talk about his team’s 48-32 NFC Super Wild Card Weekend home loss against the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers .
Dallas got demolished, trailing 27-0 at one point before scoring on the final play of the first half. Seventeen days after the playoff defeat, Parsons broke his silence on his “The Edge with Micah Parsons” podcast, calling the defeat “completely embarrassing and unacceptable.” He explained the reason it took him that long to talk about was because he felt embarrassed to show his face in public.
At Super Bowl LVIII’s radio row in Las Vegas, not only was Parsons open to speaking about that game, but he also felt comfortable enough to talk about with one of the Packers players most responsible for ending the Cowboys’ 2023 season: Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love . Love cooked Parsons and the Cowboys defense all game, throwing for 272 passing yards and three touchdowns on 16 for 21 passing, which earned him a 157.2 passer rating, 1.1 points away from a perfect 158.3 rating in the Packers’ victory. That 157.2 passer rating now ranks as the single-game Green Bay postseason record. His 13 yards per pass attempt are also the most by a Packers quarterback ever in a playoff game.