Ravens' Jadeveon Clowney keeps it real on his Browns departure
There was quite a bit of controversy during the last days of Jadeveon Clowney’s run with the Cleveland Browns. Clowney was sent home from the Browns’ final practice session before their regular season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2022 campaign and was also placed on the inactive list for the game. This all […]
There was quite a bit of controversy during the last days of Jadeveon Clowney’s run with the Cleveland Browns.
Clowney was sent home from the Browns’ final practice session before their regular season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2022 campaign and was also placed on the inactive list for the game. This all came after he made some notable comments about the Browns organization in an interview with Cleveland.com. For one, he claimed that the Browns did not put him in the best position to get the most out of his talent on the field.
"I just feel like I need to be around somebody that believes in me and my ability," Clowney said. "(It can’t) just be me believing in myself. I believe in myself more than anybody.”
Clowney, who signed a one-year deal with the Baltimore Ravens in August, is set to square off with the Browns on Sunday. Cleveland will host Baltimore in Week 4.
Following Baltimore’s practice session on Wednesday, Clowney was asked about his departure from Cleveland, and he noted that at the end of the day, he left the team on a "high."
"I don’t think I made [anything] clear," Clowney said. "I didn’t talk to anybody. Somebody made it clear for themself to sum up the way they felt. I never talked to anybody.
"I left [Cleveland on a] high; I played well my last game. I talked to the media that day and said I was talking about the game I played against the Washington [Commanders] — that was the last team I played — and that’s all I was thinking about. I didn’t talk to [anyone or] sum up anything that happened there [with my] teammates or coaching staff — nothing. It was locker room talk that got out, obviously."
In the big picture, Clowney has no bad blood with the Browns.
“Not from me, I don’t think so," Clowney said. “Like I said, I've got a lot of respect for them. If I had any bad blood, I don’t think I would have signed to go back there for two years in a row. For everybody that thinks there was some bad blood, I would never sign and go back. … There were a lot of fingers pointed that year, and I ended up on the wrong side of the fence, I guess.”
Clowney recorded 23 quarterback hits and 11.0 sacks during his two-season run with Cleveland.