If Myles Garrett wants to break the NFL’s single-season sack record on Sunday, he will have to bring down Joe Burrow at least once. Burrow, it seems, will not be using any special tactics to try and prevent him from getting it.
Burrow was asked about Garrett’s pursuit of the sack record on Wednesday, and the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback made it clear that it will not play into his thinking about how he approaches the game. In fact, he even said if he has to take a sack for the good of the team, he will do it.
“I’m not going to overcompensate either way,” Burrow said. “I’m not going to go out of my way to not let him get the record and I’m not going to go out of my way to let him get the record, either. I’m going to go and play football. There’s going to be situations where a sack is the best of the bad outcomes of that play and maybe I take one.”
Joe Burrow on Myles Garrett’s quest for the single-season sack record.
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Burrow’s comments may bring back memories of Brett Favre famously going down to give Strahan the record, which some people still think was a gift from Favre. It certainly does not sound like he has any plans to do that, but he is not going to do something stupid just to prevent Garrett from getting the record, either.
Garrett has 22 sacks on the season. A half a sack would tie the single-season record, while a full sack would give him sole possession of it.
For his part, Garrett thinks some of his opponents are more worried about keeping him from getting sacks then they are about winning the game. Burrow does not sound like he will be one of them.
