Micah Parsons isn’t buying the idea that the Chiefs should still have the league shaking.
Kansas City took its first loss of the season on Sunday night, getting flattened 20-3 by the Seahawks in a game that exposed the cracks in a team that opened 5-0. For Parsons, that was enough to change the conversation. The Packers star pass rusher made it clear on The Edge that he didn’t come away impressed by Patrick Mahomes and Co.
“The Chiefs don’t-they don’t scare me. Like, watching that game, I’m not-I was not scared,” Parsons declared on The Edge.
Parsons’ issue is simple: he doesn’t see Kansas City with the kind of vertical weapon that forces defenses to panic. He singled out Xavier Worthy while making that point and argued that speed alone doesn’t make a Tyreek Hill clone.
“They need someone to be able to take the top off… We have to stop this madness. Just cuz you buy Tyreek Hill speed don’t mean you buying Tyreek,” Parsons said of Worthy.
Your speed could be efficient, but people forget Tyreek’s strong. And it’s not even just his speed.
Reek was stopping on the dime.”
He doubled down on that theme by describing the type of receiver he thinks really changes the math for a defense, using Jaxon Smith-Njigba as the example in the discussion.
“(Jaxon Smith-Njigba), what you think? JSN’s probably 4.5, 4.4, high 4.4.”
“I think he’s 4.56,” co-host Quincy Avery said.
“And he plays like he’s 4.3. To me, what really separates receivers is not how fast you can run forward besides the 9 route, the go route.
How many times are you actually just running straight? Your ability to change direction and coming in and out of breaks is gonna dictate how good you are.
That, that’s the separator.”
The whole thing makes for a pretty bold stance from Parsons, who still hasn’t played a game this season while working back from the ACL injury that ended his year last year. And with the Chiefs not on Green Bay’s schedule, the only way this turns into something on the field is if both teams meet in the Super Bowl.
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