George Pickena and Greg Newsome may have been round one of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns fight card. The follow-up to the card? Joey Porter Jr. against Jerry Jeudy.
After the game, Porter and Jeudy got into it after a scrappy game where Porter tried to be physical with Jeudy. It sounds just like Porter’s father, who got into a pregame brawl with multiple Browns players.
Porter says they will no longer do that, but he thinks he got under Jeudy’s skin.
“He was just trying to talk,” Porter said “I really don’t care about it. He said what he said. I said what I said. If there’s anything else after that, then, shoot, we can see each other. I’m not really trippin’.”
Jeudy had a touchdown, but it came away from Porter. Otherwise, Porter did a great job of shutting Jeudy out for much of the game, and the more time went along, it seems the more frustrated Jeudy became.
“It was cool. There was a lot of back and forth,” Porter said. “I feel like I got under his skin and it was a quiet day for him, in my opinion.”
Jeudy is coming off a massive game where he torched the Denver Broncos for 233 yards. Against the Porter, though, Jeudy had just four receptions for 29 yards. That is a quiet game.
Porter is not surprised by the scuffle since it happens in rivalries like this. With how much back-and-forth talking each side has participated in this week, a little physicality is par for the course with a rivalry.
“I already don’t like those guys and they don’t like us. I’m happy we got the team win. At the end of the day, they lost. We won. I’m happy,” Porter said.
This was not a fist fight like the one his dad got into, but a light scuffle with more words than physicality. Either way, after a tough six-flag game in Cincinnati, Porter bounced back against the Browns.