Green Bay Packers' star pass-rusher Micah Parsons is going to be extra motivated against Joe Flacco and the Cincinnati Bengals

Joe Flacco may have a hard time sleeping ahead of the Green Bay Packers' matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Flacco was recently traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Bengals to provide Cincy a chance with Joe Burrow sidelined with a turf toe injury that was so bad that it required surgery.

The Packers' defense knows Flacco well, because they just prepared to face him in Week 3, which was a disappointing 13-10 loss in Cleveland. It was Green Bay's first and only loss of the season.

There was, of course, the 40-40 tie in Week 4 to the Dallas Cowboys that felt like a loss. The Packers are still stinging from that one, because much like the Week 3 loss against the Browns, it was a game that they could have won had they not shot themselves in the foot.

The Packers have the talent on both offense and defense to win a Super Bowl, but do they have the mindset to do it? A lot of that will be determined by how the Packers bounce back against the Bengals in a game that they should easily win, but we know that one player, at least, is locked in heading into this one.

Star pass-rusher Micah Parsons had a ton on the line against Dallas. He did make a game-saving tackle that counted as a sack, but overall, he relayed earlier this week that he was disappointed in the Packers' defensive output overall against Dallas.

To him, coming off a tie followed by a bye week, this game against Flacco and the Bengals must be a statement game for the Packers, and he's right.

"You should be pissed off. Like, you're sitting down pissed off," Parsons said, according to James Rapien of OnSI. "We just gave up 40 points and we're talking about we can't give up 20 and how we shouldn't lose games. Well, that's how you lose games. So we should be pissed off. We should be ready to come out here, play Sunday regardless of who's playing and whoop some butt if you're really dogs. That's how I come, that's how I look at it. Like, we really say who we want to be. We should take that last, how we finished last, and we should punish these guys and we should want to leave a statement. Like, it should be a statement win, should be a statement on defense. I just think it's a statement. These guys should be pissed off because I was pissed off."

If you're Flacco and you hear this quote, you have to be a little bit concerned, right?

Parsons hasn't had stellar numbers as he's acclimated to being part of Jeff Hafley's defense (though the advanced numbers are electric), but he's motivated to come out and make a statement against Cincinnati.

He has the talent to have a two-or-three sack game against any offensive line in this league, and that's the type of standard he's now holding himself and this defense to.

Throw in the fact that Flacco will have had less than a week to acclimate himself to Cincinnati's offense scheme, and he's already a statue in the pocket as a 40-year-old quarterback, and there's reason to believe that Cincinnati's new quarterback could be heading into a bad time in Week 6 against Parsons and the Pack.