Out of Miller's shadow, Barrett aims to follow his footsteps

[ASFN Admin]

With some fresh but familiar advice from his mentor, Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett aims to wreck Patrick Mahomes’ prospects for another Super Bowl parade the same way Von Miller destroyed Cam Newton’s party plans five years ago. Barrett recalls Miller gathering his fellow Denver Broncos pass rushers at the team hotel on the eve of Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California, and telling them the championship was theirs for the taking if they could just get to the Carolina quarterback. Miller knocked both the football and the Lombardi Trophy from Newton’s grasp with a pair of strip-sacks in the Broncos’ 24-10 victory the next night.

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