Green Bay Packers star Micah Parsons didn't hold back about head coach Matt LaFleur.
Many Green Bay Packers fans want head coach Matt LaFleur fired after what happened against the Chicago Bears.
However, superstar Micah Parsons wants LaFleur back next season.
"I reached out to him when I started seeing this, and I said, 'Man, when I agreed to come here, you were part of the reason why I came here, I want you a part of this and I love you and I think you're a great coach,'" Parsons said on Monday. "And he appreciated those words, and we had a brief conversation, but Matt, I think he's a great guy and I just think he cares so much, like he cares so much about the players."
The Packers lost to the Bears in the Wild Card Round of the 2026 NFL playoffs. They blew a 21-3 lead in Chicago.
LaFleur has one year remaining on his current contract. Sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday that the Packers are expected to try to work out a deal in the coming days to keep the 46-year-old around.
Parsons, who was at the Packers-Bears game in Chicago, said players are responsible for the loss.
"You can get spoiled with a good coach and good people, and you don't realize until they're gone and I don't want to be at that point where we realize like, 'Damn, we let such a great coach go,'" Parsons said. "Because at one point the players -- you talk about do your job, right? You talk about coach, I mean this team put up what, how many points do they score? Twenty-seven? Twenty-seven points in a playoff game. I always told you, if my team puts up 21 points, we should win that game.
"We put up 27 points and we miss six, seven on special teams, that's 34 points and you're talking about, you want to get rid of a coach. At one point players have to have accountability and that's something that I'm challenging us as players that we need to take, we need to have accountability. How do we let that game go?"
With a 76-40-1 record in seven seasons, LaFleur likely would be a strong candidate for other openings if he and the Packers decided to part ways this offseason.
The Packers didn't win a game after Parsons tore his ACL. The Pro Bowler believes he can be back on the field within the first month of next season.
In his first season with Green Bay, Parsons finished with 12.5 sacks.