For the second straight week, Browns defensive end Myles Garrett recorded a strip-sack to help set up a Cleveland win. According to Garrett, it’s something he deliberately aims to accomplish with every sack.
Last week’s poke out of Joe Burrow’s hand near the Bengals’ goal line was recovered by fellow DE Joe Jackson and quickly cashed in for a touchdown. This week, Garrett did it all himself. He discussed how he set up Football Team left tackle Geron Christian for the huge sack on Dwayne Haskins.
“I had been trying to set (Christian) up with speed to power and some jam moves early on to get his hands and get him to open up a little bit sooner,” Garrett said in his postgame Zoom with reporters. “That last one, they did not have any help for him so I knew I was going to take it all the way up the field and try to get to it the best that I could. He could anticipate me either jabbing or going inside because that is where I was beating him. I was able to get on the backside of the strip.”
Garrett continued,
“I saw that he had not thrown it yet, and no sack is complete without getting the ball.”
The ball bounced off the turf, kicked up off Haskins’ foot and right into Garrett’s hands for the recovery. It was Garrett’s second sack of the afternoon and his 17th sack in his last 16 games.
