Micah Parsons’ new career chapter with the Green Bay Packers hit its first stutter on Sunday after the team dropped a 13-10 road contest to the Cleveland Browns. It was Parsons’ first defeat since his blockbuster trade from the Dallas Cowboys, and it highlighted both the challenges he faces in Green Bay and the noise surrounding his high-profile move.
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Coming into the matchup with a 2-0 record, the Packers were expected to have it easy against a Browns team led by 40-year-old Joe Flacco. Instead, Green Bay’s offense sputtered, wasting a defensive effort that kept them within striking distance all afternoon.
Parsons posted two tackles and two quarterback hits, but that wasn’t enough to swing the game in the Packers’ favor. The defeat triggered the usual critical barrage. But along with that, a strange rumor about Parsons started doing the rounds as well.
Claim: Soon after the game, a video started doing the rounds online peddling a rumor that Parsons already wants to exit Green Bay.
In the clip, where Parsons is supposedly giving a post-game interview, he declares, “I’m requesting to be traded back to the Cowboys because this Packers team is absolute a**… I honestly think Dak Prescott is better than Jordan Love.”
The video also mocked Green Bay’s offensive struggles, calling Love “Jordan Hate” and suggesting Parsons had “no reason” to stay with the Packers.
Source: Dangerous AI, a YouTube channel, posted this one-minute clip claiming Parsons blasted his new team in a postgame press conference.
Verdict: The claims made in the video about Parsons wanting to leave the Green Bay Packers and that he criticized his team are false.
No credible reports indicate Parsons has requested a trade, and the quotes attributed to him have been debunked as fake. This isn’t the first time AI deepfakes have targeted NFL stars. Earlier this year, a fake clip circulated of Jalen Hurts supposedly criticizing his own teammates.
For now, the only words that matter are the ones Parsons actually spoke in Cleveland: A candid acknowledgment that the Packers must get better. The defense is doing its part, but the offense’s inconsistency could derail early-season momentum.
“Sometimes, just like today, you s*** the bed,” Parsons admitted to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky after the loss. “That’s just the reality of it. It happens to the best teams. Even the best Super Bowl champs make mistakes, and they pay for it early. You go back to the history of the champions and who they’ve played and games they should’ve won. It’s just that competitive.”
Parsons’ next test is not just another game. It is a reunion. The Packers travel to Dallas in Week 4, where Parsons will face his old team, the Cowboys, under the bright lights of AT&T Stadium.
If the Packers, who are 2-1 after Week 3, want to prove their winning start to the season wasn’t a mirage, then Dallas is the place to do that. It will also provide Parsons with an opportunity to silence the noise about its future.
