Browns WR Jerry Jeudy Breaks Silence on QB Situation Ahead of 49ers Game
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Cleveland Browns receiver Jerry Jeudy is having a rough year.
Cleveland Browns receiver Jerry Jeudy addressed the team’s revolving door at quarterback and his rough season while speaking to reporters ahead of a Week 13 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers.
Jeudy is coming off a rough performance against the Las Vegas Raiders. He had just one catch on three targets for 39 yards. That lone catch came with a costly mistake. Surrounded by defenders, Jeudy appeared to high-step before being caught from behind and fumbling. It was an embarrassing miscue that coach Kevin Stefanski addressed.
“He will be better. That’s really a play that we expect him to make. That’s a huge play for our football team,” Stefanski said. “We were about to get seven points, if not three on that drive and that’s a big play for us. Jerry knows this. And, you know, we remind him and remind our players. It’s always the guy that you can’t see that they’re coming. So, I don’t think it was a loaf. It was a lack of ball security technique.”
Jeudy gave his side of the story on the turnover.
“I was trying to make a play and I was wide open,” Jeudy said. “I saw three defenders around me and I was trying to cook across the field. I didn’t feel them behind me. As simple as that.”
Jerry Jeudy on Browns’ QB Situation: I Can’t Control It
Jeudy has already caught passes from three quarterbacks this season. And the results haven’t been there for Jeudy, who was a Pro Bowler a year ago. He has just 32 catches for 395 yards and one touchdown through 11 games. Amid the instability at quarterback, Jeudy is just focusing on his game.
“I just keep being me — I can’t control nothing but myself. I just keep running routes and getting open,” Jeudy said. “That’s all I can do. I can’t control anything else.”
Shedeur Sanders will draw his second start on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. Jeudy said the rookie has handled himself well so far and is looking to improve their chemistry.
“We’ve got to keep doing what we’ve been doing in practice. Get consistent reps and be on the same page,” Jeudy said. “Just keep working on that chemistry and building. Speaking on what I see and what he sees out there. Just doing what the coaches ask.”
Browns WR Jerry Jeudy Addresses His Short-Answer Press Conference
Jeudy gave a puzzling press conference ahead of last week’s game. He answered each question with just four or five words, clearly not in the mood to talk. Jeudy took some heat for his actions, which came shortly after Sanders was named the starter. But he hinted that his frustration during that moment did not have to do with football.
“I mean, I do play football but I have stuff outside of that,” Jeudy said. “Football is not the only thing I do.”
The Browns moved to 3-8 with their most recent win. Cleveland is a significant long shot to make the postseason. But they can keep their slim hopes alive with a win against the 49ers this week.
Spencer Carbery on whether any younger NHL player compares to Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky
Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals have had plenty to celebrate over the last calendar year. Ovechkin, now 40, scored his 895th career goal to pass Wayne Gretzky for the all-time NHL record on April 6, reaching a milestone that once seemed untouchable. Almost exactly six months later, Ovechkin became the first player in the league’s history to reach the 900-goal mark, and he played his 1,500th game in October.
Ahead of Wednesday’s pregame ceremony celebrating Ovechkin’s milestones this season, Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery was asked whether any of the sport’s younger players had a comparable mindset to players like Ovechkin and Gretzky. Carbery pointed to the rarity of both of Ovechkin’s recent achievements — highlighting his goalscoring talent as well as his ability to resist aging as vital factors for any player looking to catch up.
“There’s so many great players in the league right now. I’d be hard pressed, though, that company that you’re talking about, the Ovis and Waynes — I mean, you look at Connor (McDavid) and — but I mean, they are in rare, rare company, of what they’ve been able to do for as long (as they have),” Carbery said. “That’s the key, right? Is the consistency and to be able to do it for 17, 18, 19 years.
“There’s some phenomenal players in the league that you look at right now. If they continue to do that for another 10 years — but that’s hard. That’s half the battle, is the attrition of being able to play at such a high level: score, and produce, and be productive, and still be a difference maker on a winning hockey team. And to be able to do that for 20 years, those two guys are one of a kind.”
McDavid has a ways to go to match Ovechkin’s early-career scoring. He’s earned 371 goals in 737 games, compared to Ovechkin’s 459 goals in that span. Auston Matthews, who Carbery coached in Toronto, has a better chance: he’s scored 410 goals in 646 career games, compared to Ovechkin’s 405.
Neither player, however, has matched Ovechkin’s resilience. McDavid has missed 71 career games in 10 seasons, while Matthews has missed 76 over nine seasons. Ovechkin, meanwhile, has missed just 76 total games over his 21-season NHL career. If either player wanted a chance of topping Ovechkin’s record, they’d need to stay healthy — and productive — for at least another decade.
Carbery is no stranger to seeing Ovechkin make history by this point, and he admitted that it’s easy to forget just how impressive his career has been. But even if it doesn’t fully sink in now, Carbery knows he’ll be grateful for these moments long after his coaching career is done.
“I feel like I’ve had a front row seat the last two and a half years of getting to witness greatness firsthand,” Carbery said. “I think I’ll appreciate it so much more looking back and just going like, ‘I was there for that, that, that, that,’ all these different moments of being able to have a front row seat and be along for the ride. Because it is, I’ve said this a bunch through the chase and through the last two years, you almost take it a little bit for granted, that it’s just like, ‘Oh, it’s Alex. Of course, he’s the greatest goal scorer in the history of the game. Of course, he’s going to play 1500 games.’
“To be scoring the way he has at the point in his career and throughout his career is just hard to wrap your head around. I think the appreciation I have and will have — I was actually thinking about this, I ran into him yesterday on the off day at the rink — of just (that) I’ve been able to get to coach the greatest goal scorer in the history of the game for the last two and a half years, and I’m going to be able to look back on that and go, ‘Wow.’ (I’m) very, very fortunate.”
