Inside the Micah Parsons-Myles Garrett mutual admiration society: How Packers, Browns stars respect, challenge each other

GREEN BAY — The correspondence between Micah Parsons and Myles Garrett this week was minimal.

“He texted me and said, ‘Can you get two tickets for my family?’” Garrett, the Cleveland Browns’ star pass rusher, said Friday. “I said, ‘I got you.’”

Their conversations were deeper and more frequent during the summer, when Parsons, then with the Dallas Cowboys, was trying to negotiate a long-term contract extension that would surpass the four-year, $160 million deal ($123.5 million guaranteed) Garrett got from the Browns after playing hardball and demanding a trade.

“[He was] just offering moral support,” Parsons, the Green Bay Packers new star pass rusher, said Friday. “Just being a big brother, a good friend throughout this situation.”

Although Parsons followed that playbook with the Cowbo