Ravens linebacker Justin Houston, and his son, not ready to stop at 100 sacks: ‘He’s going to work the crap out of me’

Justin Houston had made nary concealed of his zeal for reaching 100 vocation sacks, a milestone the Ravens linebacker achieved successful the team’s nonaccomplishment to the Miami Dolphins.

He collected the jersey of the backmost helium dropped, Jacoby Brissett, and made plans to framework it. But his son, Junior, allowed him small clip to bask successful the achievement.

“He had been connected my caput astir getting to the 100-sack club,” Houston said. “He was happy. But I’ve inactive got much enactment to do, truthful he’s not excessively happy. He’s going to enactment the crap retired of me. We’ve inactive got much goals to reach.”

How galore sacks, exactly, is this grade-school taskmaster expecting from his 32-year-old father?

“One 100 and thirty,” Houston said, laughing. “He said you can’t discontinue until you get to 130. So I’m praying that somehow, God volition marque that happen.”

For a moment, Houston’s sack seemed to instrumentality connected a darker code arsenic Brissett, his erstwhile teammate with the Indianapolis Colts, writhed connected the field, clutching his knee. But Brissett walked off, and helium and Houston connected, arsenic friends, aft the game.

“He knew I wasn’t the feline that deed his knee,” Houston said. “I really tried to crook him distant from it.”