There was something different about the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

Jordan Love carried an MVP air and the new-look defense was dynamite with Micah Parsons pulling down Jared Goff for a sack in his first game in green and gold, a cameo that had the Lambeau Field crowd ablaze from his first snap.

This wasn't the same team that lost to the Lions in a 34-31 heartbreaker last season. It wasn't the crew that came up short at Philadelphia in the postseason.

The difference, in short, was Parsons.

"I just feel like his presence out there was different," Love said. "The energy he brought to the crowd when they announced his name and then to be able to get that sack was big-time."

Parsons brought consistent pressure and was around Goff regularly despite limited time for football conditioning w

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