Garrett breaks single-season sack record, sets new goal
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CINCINNATI — The night before Myles Garrett got his 23rd sack to break the NFL single-season record, he had a nightmare that he fell short of the mark. Garrett instead made his sweetest dreams come true. The All-Pro Cleveland Browns pass rusher took down Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow with 5:09 remaining in the fourth quarter on Sunday to finish his extraordinary season with 23 sacks. “Despair. I was scared as hell,” Garrett said of the nightmare. “We got to deny fate, whatever it is, we got to make it happen. And I just went into it and still had the utmost confidence in myself and my preparation and in my guys.” The record came in a victory that concluded an otherwise difficult season for...