What Micah Parsons’ ACL Injury Means for Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl Hopes | The Rich Eisen Show

The Green Bay Packers, as we know, come out with the loss, and they lost more than just the game. They lost Micah Parsons for the rest of the season. We, you know, the old dreaded non-cont injuries when your knee buckles in a certain way that looks unsightly usually leaves you with a sense that it’s a significant injury. And Ian Rapaort, we put his tweet up here, my colleague from the NFL media group, confirming that it’s an torn ACL, says it’s a 9-month recovery at least. which potentially puts him in line or return for next season, but it’ll be one of those where we’ll see and he’s got to work his way in. But that’s next season. This season, October, you know, you’re you’re removing for this Green Bay Packers 2025 team, you’re removing, according to nextgen stats, as you know, and I’m an old gen stat guy, like wins, losses, touchdowns, RBI’s, things we can count. Uh, Michael Parsons leads the NFL with 83 quarterback pressures. So, you’re removing the guy who gets quarterbacks to say OS the most. Remember that? Oh, yeah. Remember Gino Smith Aaron Donald coming in? You heard the mic from his center pickup. OS. Poor guy. And listen, the the Packers without Micah Parsons now you’re basically back to last year’s defense. Is that fair to say you didn’t have them now? You had them for this much and clearly you’re going to have to make up for that. Good luck. Clearly, right? But here’s the way through. Again, I always try to leave people with a here’s the way through. Um the way through is don’t turn it over. Duh. But the Packers have had three games this year, including this Sunday, in which they’ve had multiple giveaways. You want to guess what the record is in those three games? 0 and three. Thank you. Simple spinning curve in the zone there. Big Poppy. Bam. And with one or fewer giveaways this year, they’re 91 and one. With no giveaways, they haven’t lost seven and0. So that’s it. Hold on to it. Hold on to it because you’ve got even with Micah gone a defense that can generate I would I would think pass rush. Now you don’t have Kenny Clark and him obviously. So it’s going to have to be up to a guy that’s a few weeks away from getting some serious heat on him. the defensive coordinator of the Packers, Jeff Hafley, as you know, is I think you look at all the coordinators in the NFL right now and say that guy’s going to have a job next year. I think he’s in the top three of that list. He’s getting lots of interviews for sure. So, it’s going to be up to him and this will be another way for him to show off his acumen is to is to keep this thing moving. Let’s keep Josh Jacobs healthy cuz when he he’s he’s unbelievable. Although it was his fir, you believe it or not, his first career game where he ran one in and caught one and the one he caught for a touchdown was he was high point. Yeah. It was sick. Yeah. And Love had a season where two interceptions, but you know, one of them I can’t blame him for. That Pat Sertan pick of the one he targeted Christian Watson might be the interception of the year. Defensive. It’s the interception of the year of somebody who’s used both hands to catch a football. Right. Right. Um I’ll never forget and this just there’s not an excuse making for for Jordan Love here when we were interviewing the Broncos prior to Broncos Jets. Uh a game that I I I think caused me to lose a few more follicles calling that game. um that Pat Certan showed up on the Zoom and basically said he lamented the lack of action he sees. He feels like some of the games because they don’t target him. They don’t throw at him purposefully. He feels like he said he’s running track instead of playing football. Just running. Just running. Just running. And hey Pat, you keep picking balls off like that, you’re going to be running a lot more track action. Well, I mean, what’ you throw at him? God, what a pick that was. Never. He takes his side of the field, right, and he puts it on lock like he’s part of the jail, you know? It’s just like Oh, yeah. Come on. Oh, yeah. I got to watch this pick again, dude. Watch it on repeat. So, and and Denver’s not an easy place to win. Yada yada yada. and the Packers could be six days away from showing up on Delto’s Fox and sweeping the Bears. Now, their problem is that infernal tie against Dallas because of that tie. The tie break they would have by sweeping the Bears is null and void essentially because if they beat the Bears, they would just be a half game in front of them. and Green Bay after visiting Soldier Field where man are the Bears game fans going to be in full froth for that one. They they Green Bay ends up, as you could see, hosting Baltimore and then they visit Minnesota, which if nine shows up, may not be the type of game that we thought it would be a few weeks ago. So, good news for them is I think the Bears have a tougher stretch after playing the Packers this week. the Bears have to go visit San Francisco on a Monday night. That I’ll be honest with you. Could be. I I don’t know what that’s going to look like when they visit San Francisco on that Monday night. San Francisco could have a shot at the one seat, pardon me, on a Sunday night. They’re going to have a shot at the one seed on that Sunday night. That’s no joke, by the way. They could. And the Bears could have a shot at the one seed on that Sunday night or a shot at maybe clinching the division or needing it to stay out of a wildcard spot with the Lions coming into their house to potentially sweep them. And they would have potentially the same record as the Bears and they could eliminate the Bears from playoff contention if the Packers keep winning. And the Niners beat the Bears. I mean, this thing could go any which way but loose. Do you like that one? Hey. Yeah, good movie. 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Rich Eisen weighs in on how Micah Parsons’ season-ending knee injury in the Packers’ Week 15 loss to the Denver Broncos impacts Green Bay’s Super Bowl aspirations.

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  2. Evan Williams, Zach Tom, Micah Parsons, Christian Watson, Jayden Reed and Quay Walker all left the game in the second half craziest two qtrs of injuries to starters you'll see in a game.

  11. I honestly felt worse after the third quarter yesterday than I did when Rodgers broke his collarbone.

    On offense, we could afford to lose Kraft or Watson, not both. The offense is night and day without them. Also, the offensive line depth is not deep enough to afford losing Tom. That's what led to the major offensive inconsistency earlier this season, and it immediately returned yesterday as soon as he left.

    And then Micah…. the entire defensive gameplan was let Micah pressure the QB to make up for the lack of superstar talent anywhere else on defense. Without Wyatt or Micah, the pass rush plummets down to one of the worst in the league, and the secondary, especially the CBs, will be cooked even worse than they already have been.

    The team has enough talent to squeak out wins against most teams, but all of these massive injuries will realistically be far too much to overcome for back-to-back-to-back victories in the playoffs. That's why this one stings so much– the talent is absolutely there for a Super Bowl contender, but injuries completely derailed a realistic shot before the end of the regular season

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