Browns DE Myles Garrett chats with the media following a win with playoff implications against the Jaguars at home.
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00:00 What was the lockup agent today?
00:02 I just fought my ass off with Bob Marley.
00:05 How does this one feel to get to 8-5 and to stop that two game win?
00:12 Tough games, find who you are, and come out on the other side of this one.
00:20 It feels real good for all sorts of reasons.
00:22 But the results of this team show week in and week out.
00:27 Toughness, those are the kind of things that are going to carry us very far into the rest of this year and the postseason.
00:35 You guys have injuries going in, you've lost guys during the game.
00:39 You just keep fighting and fighting and fighting.
00:42 What can you say about the grit and the moxie of this football team?
00:47 There's no quarter notes.
00:50 There never will be.
00:52 It's not a single man, it's going to fall to our waiver.
00:58 With any adversity that we face, whether personally or through the team, we're all going in the same direction.
01:05 Keep our eyes toward the prize.
01:08 You guys have won four of the defense today.
01:14 What does that mean to you guys?
01:16 Last week not being able to win four of them.
01:19 Could have been more.
01:22 The officiating was a travesty.
01:25 It was honestly awful.
01:28 The fact that they're letting them get away with hands to the face, holding, off starting.
01:34 I know they called it a couple, but damn, they could have called it all game.
01:38 The one that costs us down the two-yard line.
01:43 Respect to those guys, a hard job.
01:46 We have a hard job as well.
01:48 You can't make it hard by throwing and holding hands to the face.
01:53 I got a lot of respect for those guys.
01:57 We get scrutinized for the plays that we don't make.
02:01 Someone has to hold them accountable for the plays or the calls they don't make.
02:05 They need to be under the same kind of microscope as we are every single play.
02:11 You said you wanted a sloppy, ugly, dirty game.
02:17 Does this qualify as that game?
02:19 No, just all around.
02:22 Like I said, all three phases plus the refs.
02:27 This time we went our way and we're glad to come on the right side of things.
02:33 We want that kind of game.
02:35 We need to uphold the rules for everyone at all times.
02:40 What can you say about Joe Flackner and the performance that he gave today
02:46 and how exciting it must be for you guys as a team to know that you've got a quarterback like that
02:51 that's just going to go out there and do everything out there and deal with you?
02:54 Rafe will look good.
02:56 The man who was on that one play, he's fantastic.
03:01 We can expect that.
03:04 He's going to be perfect.
03:06 He's just picking up things as he goes.
03:09 The man of the shot, he made the plays that he needs to make.
03:13 He picked up those old legs and got them first down.
03:16 The guy is doing it all.
03:21 He's giving it all for this team.
03:23 We're expecting the rest of the guys as well.
03:25 What have you seen from him?
03:27 [indiscernible]
03:34 He's a phenomenal player.
03:35 He's a leader.
03:38 He's come with a child's mindset every single day.
03:42 He comes to work trying to receive and be receptive of all the knowledge that coach has given, we're given.
03:52 He can best be utilized by the team and help maximize his potential.
03:58 He's receptive to all that kind of coaching.
04:02 It means a lot for a guy, especially that young to hear from veterans and use that,
04:09 make them have a big day like he did.
04:11 He was where he needed to be.
04:12 He was flying around.
04:13 He was making plays.
04:15 From perimeter to there in the backfield, looking like he was a receiver.
04:19 I like having people who just love this.
04:27 You love the game.
04:28 You can tell every time he steps on the field, whether it's a Wednesday or a Sunday.
04:32 He just loves the game.
04:33 What can you say about Kevin?
04:35 You've had all these different quarterbacks, a bunch of injuries, offensive lines have been banged up.
04:39 You guys are right in the middle of the AFC wildcard picture, maybe even the division.
04:46 What do you make of how he's been able to keep this together and you guys playing for him this year?
04:54 He's done all right.
04:58 With everything that's changed throughout the year, pieces moving in and out, switched around,
05:06 he's done an amazing job.
05:10 We've answered the call.
05:16 He's put us at a different distance to make up for some of the injuries and different calls and schemes
05:18 that we're trying to adapt to.
05:22 It goes hand in hand with us trying to play off of what we're being put in.
05:28 But he's been putting us in a lot of favorable positions and he's cooking his ass.
05:34 Miles, when Joe got here three weeks ago, did you have your suspicions about what he had left?
05:46 You showed that gray hair, he might too.
05:49 But other than thinking he's Sapansky's lost brother, the guy looks good.
05:56 He came in with a positive attitude and the whole amount of him wanting to listen, learn,
06:03 be around the guys.
06:05 Met him early on in Kevin's office and seemed like a great guy.
06:11 Wanted to get to know him.
06:14 He was just intrigued to be around us as a team.
06:21 At this point as well, he still feels like he's an outside looking in, but he's one of us.
06:28 As long as he gets anywhere he goes, he's one of us.
06:31 You know he's got five kids at the instant, you know, answer two after games.
06:34 Scott, though.
06:37 I mean, can you imagine that?
06:39 I mean, like, do everything that you do and then you have to go home and take care of five kids.
06:43 I mean, one day maybe in my future, who knows?
06:46 But I couldn't imagine coming home from a game like this and being like, oh, well, five pairs of eyes staring at me from the door.
06:55 So, I mean, the man does it all, as you can see.
06:59 The frustration with the officials, is that just today or has that been kind of growing over the course of the year?
07:05 No, that's built up.
07:06 I mean, I don't want to say what Watt said, the officials got something against me, but shoot, we're close enough.
07:17 This hacker jack crap has got to stop.
07:19 You know, this, you know, you know, less dominant.
07:22 As we've seen, we don't let them get away with pretty much anything.
07:26 It's ridiculous.
07:28 You know, you can't just let a guy put his finger in your face mask and push your head up or grab you around the back of your collar or, you know, when he's out of position, so he's going to snatch you from the front.
07:41 All that stuff, you know, we see, but we try to promote, you know, the offense and the game.
07:46 It's got to be called fair both ways.
07:49 I don't care about any of that.
07:51 No offense, defense has to be held to the same standard in more ways than one.
07:58 Why today, why yesterday, do you think is the time to address that?
08:03 Well, you watch the game, you see what was happening over there on the right end, you'd understand.
08:09 If you saw my shoulder looks right now, all red and beat up and looking like I got scratched by a couple of wild feral cats or something, like you'd understand.
08:21 Thank you.