‘I’m Finished Now’: NFL Analyst Goes On Heated Rant About Participant Who Is ‘Mentally Unable To Deal with … Criticism’

Former star huge receiver and present NFL Community analyst Steve Smith torched Broncos huge receiver Jerry Jeudy for being unable to deal with criticism. 

Jeudy took exception to Smith calling him a “JAG,” or “simply one other man,” as Smith defined through the pregame broadcast. 

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“I referred to as out to him as a result of on my podcast “Minimize To It,” Smith advised his broadcaster throughout NFL Community’s pregame broadcast Thursday. “I simply talked about guys that perhaps haven’t confirmed up in a means or in a fashion… and so the phrase that I’ve used to explain him previously was a JAG, only a man.”

In response to Smith, Jeudy was perturbed by the label and wouldn’t settle for Smith’s apology.

“Once I noticed him, he’s taking part in nicely, I wished to say to him head to head like ‘Hey, I do know I stated some issues previously I most likely shouldn’t have, and I’m sorry.’ That’s what I wished to say to him,” Smith defined.

“His response, Mike Rob and Bucky,” he advised his broadcast companions. “was ‘Ninja’ – I’m simply utilizing the phrase ninja – ‘I don’t mess with you’ and it was a curse phrase.’” (RELATED: Why Is Deshaun Watson Nonetheless Questionable?)

It was at this level Smith went completely scorched earth.

“I’ll say it once more, I’m sorry that I stated you had been a JAG, only a man, who’s a median huge receiver they used a first-round choose on, that isn’t doing something. I hope in the present day that you just really present up in a means that you just haven’t proven up within the final couple of years since they drafted you, Smith stated, railing in opposition to the previous Alabama receiver. “So if you happen to ever obtained an issue with Agent 89, I’m sorry… for saying that you just’re a median huge receiver that they’ll ultimately transfer on [from] and when groups name me and ask me ought to they commerce for you, I’ll say ‘No. don’t commerce for Jerry Jeudy. As a result of he’s mentally unable to deal with constructive criticism from individuals who watch particularly, can he be a large receiver. He generally is a huge receiver, he’s a tier three.’ Return into the studios I’m executed now,” Smith concluded.  

Jeudy, taken tenth general by the Broncos in 2020, has had a disappointing begin to his profession, hauling in solely 9 touchdowns in his first 36 video games, in response to Professional Soccer Focus. Whereas that’s not fairly abysmal manufacturing from a large out, the Broncos want to see extra from their first-round choose. 

By comparability, Smith, who the Carolina Panthers drafted within the third spherical of the 2001 draft, made the NFL Professional Bowl his rookie yr as a return man and ended his profession with a prolific 81 touchdowns and 14,731 profession receiving yards, good for eighth most all time, per Professional Soccer Focus.