Chase Claypool calls the Browns “classless”

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 14, 2021, 3:25 PM EST
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Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool says the Browns were “super classless” during Super Wild Card Weekend.

Extending a war of words that started when Claypool predicted the Browns will lose to the Chiefs and continued with Browns linebacker Sione Takitaki calling Claypool “salty about losing,” Claypool weighed in about the Browns again today.

“If the Browns had won with more class, then I wouldn’t have been so salty about it, but them mocking JuJu [Smith-Schuster] during the game and after the game just didn’t sit right with me,” Claypool said on DAZN, via cleveland.com. “They were just super classless, you know against JuJu, towards JuJu what they were saying on the field towards the end of the game, so I’m not going to have respect for a team that doesn’t have respect for us.’’

Claypool added, “They can enjoy the win and another week of football but they’ll be on the couch right next to me, so it’s all good.”

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62 responses to “Chase Claypool calls the Browns “classless””

  1. Claypool, zip your lips and enjoy the offseason. Go spend some of your money on a beach somewhere and put your phone away. Nobody wants to read about your sour grapes anyway.

  4. The guy celebrating a late TD against a 6th string CB when his team is basically done is calling other teams classless.

    Makes sense.

  5. When had JuJu shown any class? To have to give respect to earn it. The Steelers have been classless all year with JuJu. You have to be able to handle what you dish out.

  6. Steelers threw respect out the window with juju antics on logos and running at the mouth only to be unable to back up their words.

  8. Speaking of class…maybe Claypool should return to Notre Dame and actually attend a class. He sounds dumber each time he opens his mouth.

  13. Looks like the Steelers have gotten themselves another Antonio Brown. Great talent, dumb as a rock.

  15. I’m sorry, but if you remove the names associated with the rhetoric coming out of JuJu’s and Claypool’s mouths…you’d swear that this repeated droning-on on is a sign of “organizational dysfunction”…

    …looks like Tomlin’s lost control of the locker room.

  16. Maybe JuJu shouldn’t have been so classless before games all year and teams wouldn’t have to be classless back at the Steelers. Clay should also get used to watching playoffs on the couch. This is just the first of many years to come, given their broken down QB and decrepit O-line.

  18. Now more than ever, I think it’s really important to encourage anyone and everyone, including professional athletes, to seek therapy when having a hard time coping with life and reality.
    Get well soon, Chase. We’re all pulling for ya.

  19. THIS is the stuff that makes the Steelers-Browns rivalry the best in all of football.

  20. juju puts himself out there. dont like getting trash talked, dont dance on logos. the steelers are soft now

  21. Claypool, time to go back to Canada offseason & enjoy some of that snow & brew. Less the better, you are digging a deeper hole everytime you speak. Learn from Mayfield’s journey last few seasons.

  22. Sounds like he should have just won the game and he wouldn’t really have to worry about being a childish loser.

  24. You could hear on one play what they were saying and I will not repeat but that’s part of it especially with JuJu calling the Browns the same old Browns. Get over it.

  25. Claypool,keep in mind that this JuJu goofball started all this and the Browns finished it. Didn’t your coach tell your team to keep their mouths shut to avoid bulletin board material? If you need someone to blame, blame JuJu.

  29. No self awareness whatsoever. I’m embarrassed for Claypool and I’m not even a Steelers fan. Sheesh.

  30. If they make it past KC this weekend, I hope they go all the way purely out of spite.

  32. So will Tomlin be held accountable for a good portion of this fiasco. Or will we blame everyone else?

  33. “If the Browns had won with more class, then I wouldn’t have been so salty about it,”
    ____________

    Dude, they’re busy getting ready for another playoff game. They don’t care if you’re salty because they’re not thinking about you AT ALL. And bring it up to them next season and they’ll just tell you “scoreboard.” Maybe don’t fall behind by 5 TDs next time.

  36. It’s funny cause I seem to remember Claypool acting like a little child, jumping up and down taunting a player who had just dropped a sure catch near the Steelers sideline a few weeks back. The camera caught him very clearly acting “super classless”. This guy has no business talking to anyone about being classy.

  38. Bruh, trim those eyebrows before anyone can take you seriously. Repeating juju statement of Browns is the Browns is classless?

  39. I mean Juju kind of asked for the disrespect and Claypool sounds like a whiny toddler wanting candy. Wow these clowns are making Antonio Brown look sane.

  40. At this point, they’re just saying things hoping the Browns will pay more attention to them than their game on Sunday and hoping they lose because of it. Hopefully, the Browns are blocking out that noise. This has surpassed bulletin board material now. This is just a distraction.

  42. That whole division is classless. Except for maybe Cincinnati we will have to see how they act if and when they start winning.

  43. dude, your teammate was taunting other teams and filming it and broadcasting it on the internet. that’s the very definition of classless. cant believe the team and coaches allowed him to do that. was pretty sweet to see juju get smacked down a few weeks ago. still it doesn’t seem to have shut him up yet. and who in their right mind would ever name their kid juju anyways? I’m sure he got beat upon the playground regularly with a ridiculous name like that….

  46. ninersapologist says:
    January 14, 2021 at 3:59 pm

    It’s funny cause I seem to remember Claypool acting like a little child, jumping up and down taunting a player who had just dropped a sure catch near the Steelers sideline a few weeks back. The camera caught him very clearly acting “super classless”. This guy has no business talking to anyone about being classy.

    He wasn’t acting!

  48. As much as this is fun and all, if reporters stop asking they will just go away. I mean the Steelers were classless before the game, nobody cares what they have to say about the Browns any more.

  53. Why the Juju hate? He took the L and havent seen him running his mouth – Claypool on the other hand needs some personal development Lol

  54. Here’s an idea Chase. How bout you and your buddy JuJu keep your mouths shut. Then you won’t have to worry about other teams clowning you. At this point, everyone on the Browns has accomplished more than either of you have. They won a playoff game. Against you. You’re the only ones exhibiting a lack of class.

  55. Claypool added, “They can enjoy the win and another week of football but they’ll be on the couch right next to me, so it’s all good.”

    He better hope they’re not “on the couch right next to” him, no Refs around to keep them from committing “personal fouls”.

  56. Every since they let the whole team celebrate in front of the camera for anything the nfl has gone down hill. Now some players thinking they have the right to pick coaches and gm’s or they want a trade and announcers taking away from the game with constant yacking and acting like nobody watching ever watched a game before. It’s listen to me don’t watch the game and refs making game changing calls to win their bets they put down before the game and of course florio thinking he’s some kind of gm or talent scout with his stir it up opinions… what’s next. Nfl not as fun to watch as it was back when players played for their team and not their brand….

  57. Please stop listening to JuJu about building your brand. Make winning be your brand. You can talk when you win. This crying BS has to go. JuJu can’t get off of this team fast enough.

  58. As a fan of a team that admittedly likes to stir the pot in the Saints, when you lose you need to be prepared to have some of it shoved back in your face. Thats life. You just cant go around talking trash when you win and whining about it when you lose. I don’t mind the dishing it out, but you gotta be able to take it. You can be a sore winner and you can be sore loser, but you cant be both.

  59. Just because you’re in a much higher class than the Steelers doesn’t make you “classless.” It just makes you better.

  61. Couldn’t agree more with The Blitz – all of this celebrating something that is basically your job is annoying, you know every first down the arm comes out – a first down, really? Every interception or fumble recovery, half the team runs down to the end zone to ham it up for the cameras, and forget about the touchdowns.

    I am a Steelers’ fan and cannot believe the change in Smith-Shuster’s attitude. He went from the boy riding his bike around town to AB.2. I wish they would all just play the game and shut up.

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