There’s an un-highlight reel that flashes through Justin Houston’s brain whenever he thinks about the NFL sack record – and how he came up a half-sack shy of tying it, and one full quarterback takedown short of breaking it, last season.
There’s the way Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill slipped through his grasp last September. Or how he and Kansas City Chiefs teammate Tamba Hali collided just before Houston could get a hand on Oakland quarterback Derek Carr in November. And when he sacked Russell Wilson and forced a fumble in a game against the Seattle Seahawks, only to have it wiped away because of a defensive penalty away from the play.