re: Myles Garrett pleads with Cowboys to trade up and save him from the Browns

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Wait. Was he halfway joking when saying this? If not, yikes.

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He was. It was apparently filmed during some ESPN thing.

Sadly an ESPN link

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Garrett spoke with ESPN's Sam Khan Jr. In the interview, Garrett confirmed that the video taken by an ESPN social media producer in early December and posted Friday was purely in fun.

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Question: Explain how the video came about:

Garrett: "I had been interviewing with a young woman that was there at the red carpet [for the college football awards show]. She sat down and she was like 'OK, I have an idea for one more thing.' I was like 'All right.' She said 'It's 100 percent fun and say whatever you want to say, have a message toward any coach or any owner who you'd like to speak to for your favorite team. Just say whatever you want and have fun. It doesn't have to be serious, just play around with it.' I was like 'All right.' So I said what has been going around [from Friday's release of the video] and it was supposed to be pretty much a joke and not taken too seriously. It kind of got blown up."

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Absolutely surprising that a sports network would release this "controversial" video at a dead time in the year. I never would have thought that ESPN would stoop so low.