{"id":39397,"date":"2025-12-29T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39397"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:38:09","slug":"myles-garrett-steelers-more-worried-about-him-sacking-aaron-rodgers-than-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39397","title":{"rendered":"Myles Garrett: Steelers &#8216;more worried&#8217; about him sacking Aaron Rodgers than outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"MediaShortcode-credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers weren&#8217;t on the wrong end of a record-setting Myles Garrett sack. They were, however, on the wrong end of the scoreboard, and Garrett believes there was a strong correlation between the two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To an extent, I feel like they were more worried about keeping me away from Aaron [Rodgers] than, you know, getting the win, and I think that&#8217;s what came back to bite them,&#8221; Garrett said after the Browns&#8217; 13-6 upset win in Cleveland. &#8220;They&#8217;ll have to fight it out with Baltimore next week, but I&#8217;m just proud of the guys for fighting and getting this win. That&#8217;s the main thing, and I&#8217;m always gonna keep it that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garrett, who was often chipped by a running back or tight end or outright double-teamed, managed just two pressures on 43 pass rush snaps, a 4.7% rate. That was his second-lowest of the season; he had just a 4.2% pressure rate in the Week 6 game against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett remains at 22 sacks on the season, one behind breaking the record of 22.5 shared by Michael Strahan (2001) and T.J. Watt (2021). Sunday represented Garrett&#8217;s first game without at least a half-sack since that aforementioned Week 6 game against Pittsburgh. The Cleveland defense still dominated, though: Alex Wright and Grant Delpit both sacked Rodgers, who had a season-low 4.3 yards per attempt. As a result, the Steelers will host the Baltimore Ravens for the <span class=\"link\">AFC North title in Week 18<\/span>; Pittsburgh could have clinched the division with a win in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett, meanwhile, will have one more shot at the record when the Browns visit the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 18. Garrett had two sacks in the Week 1 matchup between the two teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images The Pittsburgh Steelers weren&#8217;t on the wrong end of a record-setting Myles Garrett sack. They were, however, on the wrong end of the scoreboard, and Garrett believes there was a strong correlation between the two. &#8220;To an extent, I feel like they were more worried about keeping me away from Aaron [Rodgers] than,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[5377,17223,18447,21372,10600,12704,6752,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-39397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-garrett","10":"tag-myles","11":"tag-outcome","12":"tag-rodgers","13":"tag-sacking","14":"tag-steelers","15":"tag-worried"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}