The Packers lost to the Eagles on Monday Night Football this week, 10-7, in what was quite an ugly nationally-televised affair. It was a bad enough loss that Tuesday has brought about plenty of doubts regarding Green Bay’s position as a contender in the NFC and even questions about coach Matt LaFleur’s job status. It’s also led to plenty of sports TV segments examining the flaws of the Packers, and Colin Cowherd did so by taking aim at Micah Parsons.
On Tuesday’s episode of his show, The Herd, Cowherd discussed Parsons failing to record a sack or QB hit in each of the last two games. He presented this as proof that all the hype surrounding Parsons was overdone and the All-Pro pass-rusher is simply a “splash” player who isn’t as good as his reputation suggests. Cowherd also repeated a common criticism of Parsons’s game—that he struggles to defend the run to a degree that it offsets his effectiveness as a sack artist.
