Blocking future Pro Football Hall of Famer Myles Garrett is no easy task. Rookie left tackle Will Campbell learned that the hard way on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Despite a 32-13 victory for Campbell\u2019s Patriots, Garrett had a career afternoon recording eight pressure, five sacks and a forced fumble. That included five pressures and three sacks \u2014 including one strip sack \u2014 against Campbell in 13 rushes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a really good player,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cHe beat me a few times. It\u2019s just part of the game. He gets paid a lot of money. He got me a couple times. I had to keep coming back and keep fighting. I\u2019m just glad we got the win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garrett became the fourth player in NFL history to lose a game despite recording five or more sacks, also being the first to lose by multiple scores.<\/p>\n
His early pressure helped force New England into three first half field goals, but the tide turned in the second-half as Drake Maye led three touchdown drives in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just had to finish the game,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cLast week, we didn\u2019t come out and finish the game the way we wanted to against Tennessee. That is some of what we talked about during the week is playing 60 minutes of our game. Even when things weren\u2019t going our way in the first half, to come in at halftime, talk about it and just come back out.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefense made a bunch of great plays tonight. They\u2019ve been playing their ass off, making it easy on us, giving us short fields at times. Kudos to them, they\u2019re playing really, really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell pitched a clean performance against Cleveland pass rusher not named Garrett across 20 pass blocking snaps. New England hopes Sunday\u2019s matchup was a learning moment for the 21-year old rookie, who will rarely see a talent like Garrett again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he\u2019s strong,\u201d Garrett said of the Campbell. \u201cYou want to set the tempo and the pace of the game. He was able to be pretty firm in his stance and keep me from knocking him back, and just trying to hit him with different looks, try to keep him off guard. I watched a lot of tape of him versus Will Anderson, and I know he had a difficult time with Will, and I considered that in mind. I had to try to take some things out of his book and, you know, work them into mine to have success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blocking future Pro Football Hall of Famer Myles Garrett is no easy task. Rookie left tackle Will Campbell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[138214,99],"class_list":["post-254619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-england-patriots-first-read","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}