CLEVELAND, Ohio (92.3 The Fan) – The buzz over Myles Garrett’s ‘Monstar’ afternoon against the Bears remains in the air a day later.
Garret set a Browns franchise record with 4.5 sacks of Bears rookie quarterback Justin Fields in a dominating 26-6 victory.
“Pay that man again,” Browns cornerback Troy Hill said Monday during a Zoom call. “That’s the only thing I kept thinking, pay that man again. Go get him some more money at that point. That’s dominance at its finest. He’s making our job easier back there. You gotta love when pass rushers get after it like that.”
When Garrett signed his five-year, $125 million extension in July 2020, it was set to make him the highest paid defender in the league. That has since been surpassed by Joey Bosa and Aaron Donald’s $135 million deals and Khalil Mack’s $141 million contract.
Following the game quarterback Baker Mayfield, who completed 19 of 31 passes for 246 yards and a touchdown, called Garrett a “Monstar” a reference to the intimidating cartoon villains in the 1996 movie ‘Space Jam’ starring Michael Jordan.
Monday afternoon, right guard Wyatt Teller echoed Mayfield when talking about the Browns defensive line, which he goes up against daily in practice.
“Not making excuses, but it would really suck to be your first starting game against those two guys [Garrett and Jadeveon Clowney] right there with the speed that our defense can bring,” Teller said. “Everything is a little quicker when you’re going against our defense. In practice they get us right and another group of Monstars is our defensive line, so we have to go against them every day but it’s awesome.”
In addition to the 4.5 sacks, Garrett racked up eight QB pressures, a sixth QB hit and two hurries according to Pro Football Focus, who gave him a 90.0 defensive grade.
Monday afternoon, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski once again referred to Garrett as “our best player.”
In the victory the Browns defense allowed just 47 net yards of offense and 1 net yard passing – both team records set ironically on the day they wore throwback jerseys from 1946, the year the franchise was founded.
“When you look up and see 1-yard passing, I’m like, I ain’t ever been a part of that in my whole life,” Hill said. “That’s just the dominance that we were having out there.”