Myles Garrett Finds Himself In Tanzania
The Lead
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🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After the notorious "helmet hit" against Myles Rudolph last November and an ESPN interview gone awry a few months later, Myles Garrett took off for a while. Specifically, he went to Tanzania to spend time with a water charity that he has worked with for quite some time. The Athletic's Tom Reed went to the East African nation and joins us to talk about his conversation with the Cleveland Browns star, what he's been up to in the aftermath of the incident, and how the trip impacted Garrett.
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| 0:00.0 | Last fall, as every football fan will remember, Brown's defensive end, Miles Garrett, was involved |
| 0:11.6 | in a shocking moment of on-field violence. |
| 0:22.6 | After getting tangled up with Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph, Garrett hit Rudolph in the |
| 0:26.5 | head with his own helmet and was suspended for the remainder of the season. |
| 0:30.6 | Then, after an interview with ESPN led to further criticism, Garrett disappeared for a while. |
| 0:36.5 | Two Tanzania. Today, we're joined by the athletics Tom Reed, who traveled with Garrett to the |
| 0:43.4 | East African nation to discuss how the young Brown's player has tried to heal and find perspective |
| 0:49.5 | in the aftermath of the incident. It was that just kind of that release moment, like, oh my gosh, |
| 0:55.1 | this is so much fun. It's like, these kids don't know anything about football. I don't know |
| 0:59.8 | anything about these kids, but kids are the same anywhere you go. They just love to play. |
| 1:06.6 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson, and I'm Anders Kultow. It's Wednesday, |
| 1:11.4 | May 6th, and this is The Lead. It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:18.8 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you know the verse from the verse. |
| 1:24.2 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:27.0 | You can't play. |
| 1:28.1 | I never see anything like that. |
| 1:29.3 | That's not good news. |
| 1:30.2 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in your home. |
| 1:34.3 | It stays with you. |
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| 2:16.7 | Mary, not long before sports shut down, you traveled with Miles Garrett to Tanzania. |
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