Acme Packing Company
On Monday, Acme Packing Company will begin our countdown of the Top Plays of the Green Bay Packers’ 2025 season. The list will officially start with play #10 as voted on by our contributors, but before we get to the top ten, it’s time to look at a few plays that just barely missed the cut.
Three of these four plays come from games that will show up again in the Top 10 at some point, which may explain why these didn’t quite make the cut for our countdown.
Rest assured that more from this game will be coming, but this was one of the bigger plays in this ridiculous Sunday Night Football game. After an absurd back-and-forth game in regulation, the Packers went on defense first in overtime against the Dallas Cowboys, who had traded Micah Parsons to Green Bay a little more than a month earlier. Dak Prescott drove Dallas down the field with two big pass plays, setting up a goal-to-go situation.
Green Bay got a stop against the run on first down, setting up second-and-goal from the 4. Prescott dropped back to pass but scrambled to the left and took off, with a potential opportunity to get into the end zone and put the Cowboys in command of the result. However, Parsons used his absurd athletic ability and motor to loop around from the right side of the offensive line and track down the quarterback for a sack, forcing a third down. The Packers forced an incomplete pass, leading to a Cowboys field goal and an eventual 40-40 tie. However, if not for Parsons’ effort, that might have been a Dallas touchdown that could have cost the Packers a half-game in the standings — a half-game that ended up being critically important to making the playoffs at the end of the season.
Parsons’ clutch performances continued just three weeks later. After trailing the shorthanded Cardinals for much of the game, the Packers took the lead late in the fourth quarter as Matt LaFleur kept his offense on the field to convert a fourth down rather than take a tying field goal. They went up 27-23 with just under two minutes left, leaving Arizona needing a touchdown.
But after advancing into Packers territory thanks to a couple of chunk plays, the Cardinals ran into a motivated Parsons, who had taken a snap or two off just before returning to the field before the next play. He delivered a sack that all but locked up the win, dipping neatly under right tackle Jonah Williams to sack quarterback Jacoby Brissett for a 9-yard loss. That play forced the Cardinals to take one of their final two timeouts with fewer than 30 seconds left, and the Packers held on after a couple of incomplete heaves towards the end zone.
For Parsons, it was his third sack of Brissett in...
