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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/TormundIceBreaker on 2025-08-29 13:22:27+00:00.
Over the past four years, the Cowboys were the league’s best defense with Parsons on the field by EPA per play. Across 1,039 snaps, those same Cowboys immediately became the league’s worst defense by the same metric when Parsons was on the sidelines or inactive. Acknowledging that every team is going to get worse when its best player isn’t playing, I’m not sure anything I can tell you is going to be more instructive than those figures. The best defense in the league with Micah Parsons … and the worst defense in the league without him.