Micah Parsons offers blunt reaction after Packers loss to Browns: 'It's hard as hell to win football games'

What Micah Parsons said following his first loss in a Green Bay uniform

For Micah Parsons and the Green Bay Packers, Sunday's 13-10 loss to the previously winless Cleveland Browns was not all that surprising, even after squandering a 10-point lead in the last four minutes of the game. The Packers' dreadful final moments included a blocked field goal prior to Andrew Szmyt's 55-yard walk off kick from the Browns.

"Sometimes, just like today, you s*** the bed," Parsons said. "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've they've played and games they should've won. It's just part of the [NFL]. It's just that competitive. It's that hard to win. It's hard as hell to win football games. So, when you win football games, it's a celebration. But when you lose, it sucks."

What came easy for the Packers' offense the first two games of the season was anything but on the road against Cleveland after the Browns sacked quarterback Jordan Love five times and pressured him on numerous other occasions.

"It's 18 [weeks]," Parsons said. "We lost a rough one, one that you could have said we should have won. You just grow off it. This is the character-building."

Parsons committed a pair of "unacceptable" penalties on the Browns' game-winning possession.

"When you have 14 penalties in a game, that's going to be tough to overcome that," Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. "We have to do a much better job coaching the fundamentals, the details, and we have to lock in at a high level in regards to the controllable penalties."

Parsons, Jerry Jones reunion upcoming

Up next for the Packers is a Sunday night date with the Dallas Cowboys. Jones' new-look defense without Parsons largely struggled after getting torched in their Week 3 loss to Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears.

Jones opted to trade Parsons before the season rather than agree to a new contract. The Cowboys' owner said Sunday there's no hostility between the pair despite the abrupt ending.

"I have all the respect in the world for him, and we know him well," Jones said. "So you can bet that we'll be preparing for what he brings to the table. We'll be trying to come up with some antidotes for it, too."

Over three games with Green Bay, Parsons has 1.5 sacks and 15 quarterback pressures. The four-time Pro Bowler is tied for sixth in the NFL in the pressure category.

"Well, I like Miach. I enjoy his family," Jones said. "Like I said, I've sat at ball games with them apart from the Cowboys," Jones said. "As a matter of fact, I watched the whole first half of our last preseason game with his mom. We sat there, watched the whole first half up in the suite together and talked contract."