Tom McCarthy got to call Myles Garrett's record-breaking sack

Tom McCarthy might have made his most notable call — at least as far as a national audience is concerned — since Roy Halladay's 2010 perfect game.

McCarthy — the TV voice for the Phillies — was on the call for CBS Sunday as Cleveland Browns' edge rusher Myles Garrett broke the single-season sack record by taking down Cincinnati Bengals' quarterback Joe Burrow in the fourth quarter: 

Tom McCarthy is forever part of NFL history, as he calls Myles Garrett’s record-breaking sack!

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— OnPattison (@OnPattison) January 4, 2026

Garrett finished the 2025 season with 23 sacks, a mark that if he played for a competent franchise would probably have put him in the NFL MVP race. It is true that there are more games now, but this is the fifth season of the 17-game slate, and one of the two people with the old record of 22 1/2 sacks was T.J. Watt, who did it in 2021 (although he only played in 15 games). The other was Michael Strahan, who did record 22 1/2 sacks during a 16-game season in 2001, though Brett Favre infamously rolled over to give him that record: 

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