1-on-1: Pewaukee's TJ Watt says he's ready to face the Packers

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (CBS 58) -- CBS 58 is in Pittsburgh and Sports Director Lance Allan caught up with the pride of Pewaukee, going one-on-one exclusively with TJ Watt, who grew up a Packers fan but now is behind the steel curtain.

"What is this week like for you?" Allan asked.

"It's another week to get better, honestly," TJ Watt says. "I mean, early in my career I would definitely star this game and make it bigger than it possibly is. We have so much football ahead of us left in this journey. We have so much football that needs to be corrected from the last couple of weeks, especially from the defensive side, that I'm just excited to get back on the football field and correct what we've done wrong the last couple weeks."

"Are your parents coming out? Anybody else coming out?"

"Oh yeah, my parents will come out," Watt says. "My wife's parents will come out. I think her brothers and stuff. Obviously, my buddies will be watching this game. Everybody that will be in my house will be wearing Steelers gear. That's for sure."

"What teams did you follow? Was it kind of a little bit of Packers stuff and now obviously you have a job to do?" 

"My grandpa was a huge Packer fan," Watt says. "On my dad's side. And we grew up watching Brett Favre, Ahman Green. I give Aaron crap all the time, watched him growing up and then obviously when JJ went to Houston it kind of shifted to Houston, but Bubba Franks. All those guys. You know, I grew up watching them. And I just always remember my grandpa yelling at the TV when it was like third downs and they were running the ball."

TJ Watt is the second fastest to record 100 sacks in his career. The fastest? A Packers Hall of Famer, the late great Reggie White.