For the first time since making his the “Browns is the Browns” comment leading up to the Pittsburgh/Cleveland first-round Wild Card game, receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster has admitted he was indeed talking trash.
Shortly after the comments were made, Smith-Schuster and some of his teammates said the media was just trying to cause a controversy when none was there.
Speaking to Fox Sports’ Doug Gottlieb during Super Bowl week, Smith-Schuster admitted he was upset that some Browns players mimicked his “Corvette” TikTok dance after beating the Steelers the last game of the regular season by two points.
“I mean they got a billboard now in Cleveland just because of me, I should’ve trademarked the thing, could’ve got some money off of .it,” Smith-Schuster said.
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The PM Team discussed JuJu’s comments and said they don’t really care about the free agent admitting he was trash talking, it’s not being humbled that bothers them.
“Even with Gottlieb pressing him, I should’ve trademarked it, they had a billboard, they paid attention to me, look at me, look at me,” said Chris Mueller.
“I just need somewhere in there for him, to look at this whole thing as a lesson and I don’t think he’s going to do that because he knows he’s pretty much done here anyways,” said Andrew Fillipponi.
Poni adds that it’s just further proof to him that it’s time for the Steelers and Smith-Schuster to go their separate ways.
That isn’t to take away anything from his performance on the field. He’s a good player but as guest host Arthur Moats points out, “This has continued to dominate the headlines around JuJu and less about his play, at least with AB it was always play, play, play dominant and then when that thing finally shifted he obviously left from here, but with JuJu these past two years, we’ve started to talk way more about the off field stuff . . . everything outside of football instead of him being a productive and highly talented player and to me when it gets to that point I’m with you guys that’s when you start at looking at different directions.”
“There’s going to be an organization out there that will love that type of mentality but in Pittsburgh it’s just not the fit right now,” added Moats.
