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How Broncos Fans F-Bombed Jerry Jeudy After Win Over Browns

The receiver had a better game against the Broncos than he ever had for them. Always a supportive bunch, Denver fans shared their excitement for him after the game.
December 3, 2024
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Cleveland Brown Jerry Jeudy didn't skimp on trash-talking before losing to his former team, the Denver Broncos, on December 2. Cleveland Browns via YouTube
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When former Denver Bronco Jerry Jeudy walked off Empower Field at Mile High on the losing end of a 41-32 score at the hands of his old crew last night, December 2, Broncos fans treated him like a villain in Gladiator II — and those at home reacted just as lustily. Indeed, the F-bombs on social media flew at Jeudy, now a Cleveland Brown, in such volume that he should be removing profanities from his ass for the rest of his life.

The obscenity blitzkrieg has an easy explanation: A high first-round draft choice of the Broncos in 2020, Jeudy had some good games in Denver, but more average or subpar ones thanks in large part to a cosmos-sized ego and a notably smaller work ethic that always seemed to be headed in the opposite direction. Hence his trade to the Browns this past March for two decidedly lower selections — a move that was essentially an admission that head coach Sean Payton no longer felt like paying for the mistake of a previous administration.

Rather than hide his anger at this insult to his talent, Jeudy let his hate toward the Broncos flow, particularly in the days preceding his return to Colorado. Days before kickoff, he was quoted as saying, "My feelings? I just want to go back up there and whip their ass. ... You know, you always wanna beat the opposing team that you used to play for. That's just the competitive nature of us athletes. ... I ain't circle [this game], but I definitely seen it was on the schedule. Was very excited about it. And now it's here. It's time to perform."

No doubt he did so, notching nine receptions for 235 yards and a touchdown — the sort of stats capable of causing fantasy football owners to spontaneously orgasm. And he was assisted mightily by Payton and defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, whose game plan against him couldn't have been more laughable if it had been concocted in a leaking nitrous oxide factory. The pair had the option of directing Patrick Surtain II, the Broncos' star cornerback and best player, to shadow Jeudy throughout the contest. This plan made sense, particularly given an injury to Riley Moss, the second-best corner on the squad. Instead, Payton and Joseph assigned backups such as Levi Wallace and Kris Abrams-Draine, neither of them exactly on a Hall of Fame trajectory, to do much of the guarding even after it was clear that the Browns were doing everything they could to further Jeudy's quest for retribution.

The collective foreheads of Broncos loyalists who spent over three hours smacking them will eventually stop stinging, but it'll take a while.

In the end, the Denver defense — the strength of the franchise this season despite all the hype heaped upon first-year quarterback Bo Nix in recent weeks — came to the rescue, albeit barely. The unit's pass rush was way less consistent than usual, allowing Cleveland signal caller Jameis Winston, who's on his own kind of redemption tour, to go wild; he generated a staggering 497 yards in passing all by his lonesome.

But the D also took advantage of Winston's career-long propensity for turning the ball over by way of two pick-sixes — one courtesy of Nik Bonitto in the first half, the other via Ja'Quan McMillian that gave Denver a two-score advantage with less than two minutes left. Then, after Winston had brought his team within a few yards of Denver's goal line one last time, Cody Barton snatched another of his heaves in the end zone and raced toward pay dirt again before getting tackled halfway downfield.

Among the contributors to the tackle of Barton on the Cleveland 47-yard line: Jerry Jeudy.

As for Nix, he didn't officially remove himself from Rookie of the Year consideration, but neither did he notably enhance his candidacy. His completion percentage barely cleared 50 percent (he went 18 of 35 for 294 yards) in part because Payton kept calling on him to launch the pigskin as high and far as he could — not exactly his strength. Still, the one time the strategy worked, via a 93-yard touchdown to Marvin Mims Jr., it was undeniably a thing of beauty.

The win improved the Broncos' record to 8-5 and makes playoffs speculation, something that once seemed like an opium-fueled hallucination, feel eminently reasonable. With the team on a bye next week, citizens of Broncos Country have fourteen days to enjoy the scenario — and to bask in Jeudy's failure to exact the sort of revenge he desperately desired.

What word did many X users employ when encapsulating their emotions? Pat, they'll take an F.

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