Myles Garrett Turns Heads With Raw Admission After Career Game
Cleveland Browns superstar pass rusher Myles Garrett had the best game of his career against the New England Patriots on Sunday, but it mattered little as his team lost by 19 points on the road and fell to 2-6 on the year in the process.
A frustrated Garrett spoke with reporters following the game and turned a few heads with his comments given that he tallied five sacks and five tackles for loss against the Patriots.
Myles Garrett on his Browns-record 5 sacks: “I would throw that whole performance away for a win.”
“I would throw that whole performance away for a win,” Garret said, per Ben Volin of the Boston Globe
Garrett passed Reggie White for the most career sacks before turning 30 years old, hitting 112.5 sacks for his career. He also doubled his sack total for the year after registering five sacks through the first seven outings of the season.
With his performance on Sunday, Garrett produced just the 20th game in NFL history in which a player recorded five or more sacks, per Scott Hanson of NFL RedZone.
Myles Garrett Chose to Stay With Browns on Huge Contract Rather Than Continue Pushing for Trade
GettyDefensive end Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns.
Garrett’s emotions are understandable, as the Browns defense has been a strong unit again this season, while its offense continues to struggle mightily.
That said, Garrett bears responsibility for some of his own misery. He publicly requested a trade from the franchise during the offseason, saying he wanted to go somewhere that he could compete for a Super Bowl.
But Garrett later chose to sign on the dotted line when Cleveland came to him with a four-year extension worth $160 million total, which keeps him under contract through his age-35 season in 2030.
Browns Offense Continues to Struggle Under Leadership of Rookie QB Dillon Gabriel
GettyCleveland Browns quarterback Dillon Gabriel.
Garrett also said during the offseason that he wasn’t interested in being a part of another rebuild, though that’s exactly what is happening in Cleveland in 2025.
To the Browns’ credit, the team appears to have done reasonably well with regards to its rookie draft class. Five of the seven players the franchise selected back in April have earned regular starting roles, including linebacker
Unfortunately most rookie QBs struggle early on, which has been the case for Gabriel. The offense is averaging just 17.5 points per game during his four starts.
Next year’s class of signal-callers is both better at the top and deeper than was the group of quarterbacks that came out in 2025, but the notion of moving on to yet another rookie at the game’s most important position next year doesn’t bode particularly well for Cleveland’s immediate prospects.
And the defense got bad news on Sunday where its rookie resurgence is concerned, as Schwesinger left the contest with an ankle injury that could ultimately land him on the injured reserve list (IR).
“Browns LB Carson Schwesinger, one of the best rookies in a stellar class, is believed to have suffered a high-ankle sprain, source said,” Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported. “He’ll have an MRI, but those are typically 4-6 week injuries. He left the locker room in a boot.”
Ben Johnson Calls Out Bears Player Leaders After Loss to Ravens
Following another penalty-filled game for the Chicago Bears, head coach Ben Johnson is putting the onus on the player leadership to resolve the problem.
The Bears were penalized 11 times for 79 yards in Sunday’s 30-16 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, committing double-digit penalties for a second straight game and the third time this season as their four-game winning streak came to a self-inflicted end.
Afterward, Johnson harped on the penalties as a key reason behind their ugly loss.
“The penalties, to me, are what stand out, first and foremost,” Johnson said in Sunday’s postgame. “We still have some of the pre-snap issues. There’s occasional not getting lined up quite right. There’s occasional not getting the motion quite right. That stuff adds up, and it hurts us. We get away with it occasionally, but it’s just not the way you win in this league.”
Johnson also called out the “leaders” in the Bears locker room, challenging them to take it upon themselves to emphasize the issue with penalties and stop letting it hurt them.
“I really put it on the leaders there in that locker room to get this ship going the right direction in that regard,” Johnson continued. “Us coaches, we’ve been pounding that drum now for a while, and we haven’t gotten the results we wanted, so it’s on the leaders here on this team to get us right.”
Bears Have 5th-Most Penalties Called Against Them
A high volume of penalties has been a key issue for the Bears in the first half of 2025.
The Bears have committed at least eight penalties in six of their first seven games and have yet to finish a game with fewer than six. Following Week 8’s loss, they sit tied with the New York Giants for the fifth-most penalties called against them (64) and have the fourth-most pre-snap penalties (26), which has severely hindered the offense.
Other penalties have also impeded the Bears’ progress on offense, such as quarterback Caleb Williams‘ two intentional grounding calls that went against him in Sunday’s loss. It amounts to a sloppy football team, one that will find it increasingly more difficult to compete in the NFC North if it is unable to sort out its frequent run-ins with penalties.
“I think we’ve just got to emphasize it more,” Williams said about fixing the penalties after Sunday’s game. “I think being able to emphasize it more, talk about it more, figure it out, is where we’re at. Just find a solution on why and find a solution to stop it, because it’s hurting us as an offense and hurting us as a team.”
Can Bears Rally if They Correct Issues With Penalties?
The penalties are killing the Bears. It is why Sunday’s loss to the Ravens felt like a kick in the teeth, because their self-inflicted errors were the difference between 4-3 and 5-2.
If the Bears can figure out those issues — and that’s a big if — there is still time for them to turn their 2025 season into something more than just a small step forward.
The Bears are third in the NFC North behind the Green Bay Packers (5-1-1) and Detroit Lions (5-2), but they will have opportunities to catch up to them in the next few weeks against two opponents — the Cincinnati Bengals (3-5) and the Giants (2-5) — who have done more losing than winning in the first half of the regular season.
Additionally, the Bears still have four division games left on the schedule, including both of their matchups with the Packers. They are 0-2 in that department after back-to-back losses to the Minnesota Vikings (Week 1) and Lions (Week 2) to start the season, but a more disciplined team could exact revenge and make the playoff race interesting.
The Bears will face the Bengals at 1 p.m. ET next Sunday, November 2.
