{"id":347803,"date":"2025-09-07T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347803\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:00:11","slug":"packers-micah-parsons-disses-lions-i-never-liked-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347803\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers’ Micah Parsons disses Lions: ‘I never liked Detroit’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Detroit Lions: Dave Birkett, Rainer Sabin preview the 2025 NFL season<\/p>\n

Free Press Detroit Lions beat writers Dave Birkett and Rainer Sabin preview the 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n

Micah Parsons<\/a> was only traded to Green Bay Packers<\/a> 10 days ahead of their first game of the 2025 NFL season, but he already feels like he’s a part of the team’s longstanding rivalry with the Detroit Lions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The star pass rusher was asked Thursday about potentially making his Packers debut in a rivalry game against the Lions<\/a>. His response?<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to play them,” Parsons said of the Lions, as told to reporters on Thursday. “I never liked Detroit. I never liked them, even when I was in Dallas.”<\/p>\n

Parsons went on to explain he felt as though the Dallas Cowboys had developed a rivalry with the Lions after playing against them each of the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

“It was just always a heavyweight fight every time they came in,” Parsons said of the Dan Campbell-coached squad. “They kinda got our guys when I was injured last year \u2013 the whole team was injured.”<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Lions thrashed the Cowboys, 47-9, in Week 6 last season. Detroit outgained Dallas 492-251 and saw Jared Goff<\/a> post a 153.8 passer rating after completing 18 of 25 passes for 315 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n

But Dallas won each of the previous two matchups. That included a 20-19 Cowboys win packed with controversy<\/a> in Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season, which ultimately helped Dallas beat Detroit in the race for the NFC’s No. 2 seed.<\/p>\n

Still, Parsons is “excited” to get a chance to exact revenge for last year’s shellacking in his first game with the Packers. The 26-year-old also knows Detroit will be amped up to beat Green Bay as the Lions look to bounce back from a disappointing divisional-round playoff exit at the hands of the Washington Commanders last season.<\/p>\n

“I know they’re excited,” Parsons said. “It’s gonna go all 12-15 rounds.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions: Dave Birkett, Rainer Sabin preview the 2025 NFL season Free Press Detroit Lions beat writers Dave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[247,265,210,146,113,2506,7,27,345,20842,147,5264,6011,491,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,428,6012,530,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-347803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-lions","13":"tag-detroitlions","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-green-bay-packers","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-lions","19":"tag-mi","20":"tag-micah","21":"tag-micah-parsons","22":"tag-national","23":"tag-national-sports","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-hub","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-positive","29":"tag-packers","30":"tag-parsons","31":"tag-positive","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115160550960348882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}