{"id":72729,"date":"2025-12-29T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:28:07","slug":"steelers-more-worried-about-me-breaking-sack-record-than-winning-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72729\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers more worried about me breaking sack record than winning the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They kind of fell under the same line of thinking that the Packers did,&#8221; said Garrett, who sits with 22 sacks. &#8220;We&#8217;ll just throw everything at him. &#8230; That&#8217;s their M.O. But, of course, they&#8217;re gonna throw even quicker when I&#8217;m lined up. On that side, they had a chipper there, sometimes two chippers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting it out quick, sometimes they were rolling away. They were doing a little bit of everything. I&#8217;ve come to expect that. I know they didn&#8217;t want me to be the one to break it against them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin insisted the game plan had nothing to do with avoiding Garrett securing the sack record, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/steelers-t-j-watt-hall-of-famer-michael-strahan-sack-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">co-held<\/a> by <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/t-j-watt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. Watt<\/a> and Michael Strahan at 22.5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t do anything against Myles that we don&#8217;t normally do against Myles. The sack record is irrelevant,&#8221; Tomlin said. &#8220;We gotta minimize him if we want to injure their victory. We did the same thing last time we played &#8217;em. Don&#8217;t think he had any sacks in that game, either. So we didn&#8217;t take a different approach because of the gravity of the record; it&#8217;s just standard business when you&#8217;re playing these guys and him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers&#8217; loss sets up <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/nfl.com\/games\/ravens-at-steelers-2025-reg-18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a winner-take-all AFC North battle<\/a> with the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday Night Football in Week 18. Meanwhile, Garrett now heads into a season-finale bout <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/nfl.com\/games\/browns-at-bengals-2025-reg-18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against<\/a> the Cincinnati Bengals with a chance to make history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;They kind of fell under the same line of thinking that the Packers did,&#8221; said Garrett, who sits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3265,4914,16704,139,3266,73,75,74,1833,3267],"class_list":{"0":"post-72729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-cleveland-browns","10":"tag-myles-garrett","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-no-minute","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-regular-season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}