Myles Garrett showed his real character with just a few words after the Browns’ frustrating loss to the Patriots
Cleveland’s star defender is frustrated and just wants to win.
The Cleveland Browns were routed 32-13 by the New England Patriots in a game that got out of hand in the second half. Cleveland trailed just 9-7 at halftime, but New England scored 21 points unanswered in the third quarter to take firm control of the game.
Coming away from the loss, the most frustrating thing had to be the defensive performance that the Browns flat-out wasted by Myles Garrett. Garrett had a whopping five sacks of Patriots QB Drake Maye on Sunday and it just didn’t matter. Cleveland had just 213 total yards of offense against New England, with a large chunk of that coming on their opening drive, where they went 70 yards for a touchdown.
Myles Garrett just wants to win with the Browns
“I would throw the whole performance away for a win,” Garrett said after the game.
Losing when you put forward that kind of effort has to be tough to accept. Last offseason, Garrett requested a trade from the Browns because he wanted to be somewhere with a better vision to be a winning football team. Cleveland never acknowledged that trade request and put a patch on things with a new contract for Garrett that pays him $40 million a season. Cleveland still had two years of control under Garrett and two additional years they could have tagged him — they were never letting their cornerstone player go and that’s a fact. The notion that Garrett should deal with whatever the Browns put in front of him because he signed the contract is silly. Again, Cleveland was never moving him. Why not take more money if you have to stay? Garrett was pulled late in the game against the Patriots when the game was out of hand and slammed his helmet on the sideline out of frustration.
“I’m frustrated,” Garrett said after the loss. “I want to win. I don’t care how much time is on the clock. They got their starters in. There’s a chance we can win. I want to be a part of that. I don’t care how dire the situation looks. I want to try to make something happen. So I hate coming out of those situations. I hate, you know, that kind of inevitability and not being able to do anything about it. I want to win, and I’ll do anything.”
That is just a competition talking and that’s what you want from everyone on the team, especially your star. Garrett is up to 10 sacks on the season through eight games after the monster performance that was really one for the ages on Sunday. The thing to realize is that the Browns offense is so bad to the point where these kinds of performances don’t matter for the defense. There has to be some sort of complementary football and there’s just not. As a result, the defense is out there way more than they should be, and giving up more yardage as a result.
Cleveland has a bad offensive line, hardly any reliable pass catchers, and bad quarterback play. The scheme isn’t working and players are publicly frustrated. The Browns now head into a bye week where they’re going to have to look hard at making some kind of change on offense to spark things. Cleveland is what they are through weeks, a bad football team with the best defender in football.
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