Micah Parsons didn’t need long to zero in on the Commanders’ late-game mistake in their 27-27 tie with the Giants. And he wasn’t soft about it.
On Monday’s episode of his “The Edge” podcast on Bleacher Report, the Packers edge rusher unloaded on Jayden Daniels after Washington failed to get the ball snapped in time for a game-winning field goal try at the end of Sunday’s game. Parsons, who was traded from the Cowboys to Green Bay ahead of the 2025 season, said the error could have major consequences for both Daniels and the franchise.
"Jayden Daniels probably cost my man Dan Quinn his job, to be honest with you," Parsons said. "To be honest with you.
And, like, I'm a big Jayden Daniels fan. But the reality is, he probably cost a lot of people their jobs this past weekend."
Parsons made clear he believes Washington let a chance slip away against the first-place Giants, and he tied that missed opportunity directly to Quinn’s future with a team that is now 1-3-1 in 2026. The Commanders went 5-12 in 2025 after Daniels missed 10 games with an injury, one year after a 12-5 season and an NFC championship game trip.
There’s also personal history behind Parsons’ view. Quinn coached Parsons in Dallas from 2021 through 2023, when the Cowboys won 12 games in each of those three seasons. Parsons called Quinn his "OG" and said they had the kind of relationship where conversations could be “father to son or player to coach.”
When his cohost asked whether the blame should also land on Washington’s coaching staff, Parsons kept coming back to Daniels.
"All respectfully, we get coached so much on these situations that, like, I'm a defensive player, and this shit's programmed to me," Parsons said. "I even know what to do in those situations.
There's no way I'm taking a sack with 14 seconds left and no timeouts... And, mind you, it'd be different if Jayden Daniels was a rookie.
This is your third year. This is your third year.
You've been to the NFC Championship game. You've been in big moments before.
And to me, like even after a sack, you're casually getting up. ... He's not even urgently getting up. ...
That is disgusting, bro."
Parsons also pointed to the bigger business picture. Daniels is heading toward the third-year mark that makes a player extension-eligible, and Parsons noted that Sunday’s sequence won’t help when Washington eventually talks numbers. Daniels can sign a new second NFL contract in the 2027 offseason if the Commanders choose to offer one.
"If people want to say QBs win or lose games, and as you can see, they won or lost the game [tied] on a QB's hands, this is your job, bro," Parsons said. "This is your job to be prepared to understand the game and understand situations.
That's in your job profile. And you're telling me, 'Oh, we're gonna want to pay this guy eventually $60 million?'
This cannot happen. Jayden Daniels is in a contract year.
That's not what I want to put on tape."
Daniels took responsibility after the game, saying, "We gotta relay that as an offense, it starts from everybody, top down [the coaching staff]. Ultimately, it's on me." But Parsons said that answer didn’t go far enough for him.
"I'm a player, and you know I'm a big JD5 fan, but that's inexcusable, bro," Parsons said. "The lack of urgency, that's something, if I was on [his] defense, I would have had to say something in the locker room. I would've had to come talk to him like 'yo, that's not OK.'"
Parsons added that situational football is something the Packers work on "every day," and said that approach is standard around the league. For him, the issue was simple: Daniels needed to handle the moment better, and the Commanders paid for it with a result Parsons called inexcusable.
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