Myles Garrett is already thinking past the game and straight into the trash talk.
The Rams pass rusher said he knows exactly what he wants to tell Micah Parsons after Los Angeles meets Green Bay on Nov. 25, and it sounds like he expects the box score to back him up. Garrett’s version of the postgame exchange starts politely enough.
“I'll shake his hand," Garrett said, "and laugh and joke with him.”
From there, Garrett figures Parsons will needle him about his light dimming. His answer, he said, will be to point at the scoreboard and the numbers and make the case that he had the better night, while Parsons only had a good one. In Garrett’s words, there are “still levels to this.”
The setup for that conversation is a standalone holiday game with a national spotlight. The Thanksgiving Eve matchup at SoFi Stadium kicks off at 8 p.m.
Eastern on Netflix, and it will be only the second Wednesday game in Packers history. The first came against the Chicago Cardinals in Buffalo on Sept.
28, 1938.
Garrett’s comments came during Thursday’s appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, where Eisen also revisited the podcast debate the two had over who the better player is. Garrett said he did call Parsons “delusional” in that exchange. Their next meeting will come with plenty of attention attached.
On the field, Garrett has already shown what he can do after returning from knee surgery. In the Rams’ 20-13 win over Washington on Nov. 8, he posted three sacks, three tackles for loss, three quarterback hits and a forced fumble in his first game back.
He was on the field for 35 of 58 defensive snaps and made his presence felt early. His first sack came on a strip of Jayden Daniels that helped set up a field goal before halftime. He added two more sacks in the fourth quarter, including a 12-yard loss that forced a punt while Los Angeles was protecting a seven-point lead.
Garrett finished with six pressures on 27 pass-rushing snaps, a 22.2 percent pressure rate. His strip-sack also made him the first Rams player with at least three sacks and a forced fumble in a game since Donald against Washington in October 2020.
It was the first three-sack game by a Rams player since Donald did it against Arizona in December 2021. Garrett and Donald are now teammates, and the Rams moved to 5-4 with their third straight victory.
For now, though, the bigger issue is whether Garrett can make it through the week. He missed Friday’s practice and is questionable for Sunday’s game at Arizona with a knee injury.
Green Bay, meanwhile, enters Week 10 at 6-3 and still has Minnesota ahead before its bye and the trip to Los Angeles.
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