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Myles Garrett on breaking single season sack record<\/p>\n

Browns DE Myles Garrett talks about breaking the single season sack record and what it means to him.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

Coach Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> return to the NFL playoffs for a second consecutive year.<\/p>\n

The Chargers<\/a> finished the regular season with an 11-6 overall record, losing their last two games.<\/p>\n

The team sat several of its starters, including quarterback Justin Herbert, in the 19-3<\/a> loss to the Denver Broncos<\/a> in Week 18<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Safety Derwin James Jr. and edge rusher Tuli Tuipulotu were also inactive for the game.<\/p>\n

The Broncos<\/a>, who won the AFC West, clinched home-field advantage for the playoffs<\/a> and the top seed with the victory.<\/p>\n

PLAYOFF PICTURE: Wild-card matchups set, Broncos get top seed | LIVE updates<\/a><\/p>\n

Who will the Chargers play in the NFL playoffs?<\/p>\n

The Chargers are seeded seventh in the AFC bracket and will travel to take on the second-seeded New England Patriots<\/a> in the wild-card round on Sunday, Jan. 11.<\/p>\n

The Chargers did not play the Patriots during the regular season.<\/p>\n

How to watch Chargers vs Patriots playoff gameDate: Sunday, Jan. 11Start time: 8 p.m. ETChannel: NBA\/Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myles Garrett on breaking single season sack record Browns DE Myles Garrett talks about breaking the single season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[247,265,240,232,1443,70316,241,231,258,10711,10728,7,5291,1436,1389,20842,469,1435,1012,1070,1066,1159,239,1014,262,2444,2443,677,679,248,267,155,246,88,6,35196,245,264,5426,529,4043,9,266,678,24,528,536,10695,10694,10719],"class_list":["post-655866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-angeles","tag-broncos","tag-california","tag-california-gold-rush","tag-chargers","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-derwin","tag-derwin-james-jr","tag-football","tag-gold","tag-harbaugh","tag-herbert","tag-hub","tag-james","tag-jim","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-jr","tag-justin","tag-justin-herbert","tag-los","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-peacock","tag-point","tag-rush","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-the","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-tuipulotu","tag-tuli","tag-tuli-tuipulotu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}