Browns’ Myles Garrett reveals to Jimmy Fallon why he wasn’t worried about the clock ticking down on his NFL sack record
CLEVELAND, Ohio — On the eve of Myles Garrett likely winning his second NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award tonight, he gave Jimmy Fallon a sack tutorial on The Tonight Show, and revealed why he wasn’t worried about the clock ticking down on his NFL sack record in the season finale against the Bengals.
“If you don’t get a sack, you don’t break the record,” Fallon observed during their interview on the show Wednesday night.
“I don’t break it this year,” Garrett said to a chorus of cheers from the audience. “We were going to break it regardless.”
Fallon countered that Garrett was being too positive.
“I’m more of a realist,” Fallon said. “C’mon. Wait, so if you don’t do it, you’re in second. You’re on the list. but first is Michael Strahan …
“And T.J. Watt,” Garrett chimed in.
Finally, with 5:04 left in the game, Garrett used his elite get-off to chop and dip his way around Bengals tackle Orlando Brown and bring Joe Burrow down for his NFL record 23rd sack of the season.
“But there was never a thought that I wasn’t going to get it,” Garrett said. “There was never a ‘couldn’t.’”
Fallon couldn’t fathom the ice in Garrett’s veins as the clock ticked dangerously down in the fourth quarter.
“Didn’t you get nervous?” he said. “I would be crying. I’d be like, ‘C’mon dudes, let me get one sack. What’s going on here?’”
Doubled-teamed with linemen and chipped all year with tight ends and backs, Garrett noted that “they haven’t been letting me get any all year. So I had to go and take it.”
He reiterated to Fallon that after he took Burrow down, he said, “Good to see you, Joe.”
“You didn’t say, ‘Good to see you, Joe,” an incredulous Fallon responded.
“We talk all the time after a sack,” Garrett said.
“What does that feel like?” Fallon asked.
“There’s no better feeling in the world,” Garrett said. “Other than this. This has been great.”
Fallon then produced a photo of Garrett’s dad, Lawrence, sitting in the stands of that game with a camera lens the size of his head.
“Your dad brought a pretty big camera to the game,” Fallon said.
“It might have been my lens,” said Garrett, an amateur photographer.
“Does he work for Sports Illustrated or something?” Fallon asked.
“He was trying out,” Garrett said.
Unfortunately, he bombed the tryout, as Garrett revealed.
“I don’t really look for him during the game, but I did see the photo after the game and I’m like ‘There’s no way he brought that big 600 MM lens — and didn’t get the shot,’” Garrett said.
“He didn’t get the shot?” Fallon said.
“He didn’t get the shot,” Garrett confirmed.
“This is hilarious,” Fallon said.
Garrett also demonstrated during the segment how to the sack the quarterback, making a move past Fallon and slamming the dummy into a mat. Garrett then schooled Fallon on how to do it, and he also took the unsuspecting dummy to the mat.
During Thursday night’s NFL Honors Show in San Francisco, Garrett will likely have a second NFL Defensive Player of the Year award to go with the NFL sack record, with the first coming in 2023.
Garrett likely never sweated out either.
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