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If anyone has the elixir to counter the flourishing connection between Cleveland teammates Jameis Winston and Jerry Jeudy, it should be Sean Payton, whose Denver Broncos host the Browns on Monday Night Football.
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“I’ve coached both of them,” said Payton, who spent three years with Winston in New Orleans and a year with Jeudy in Denver before granting his trade request last March.
“Jameis’s personality is infectious,” Payton said. “He’ll tell somebody, ‘Hey, go get open, and I’m going to find you.’ So that’s what a receiver wants. Those guys have had a good connection. You see it just in the limited games that Jameis has played.”
As for Jeudy, “from a talent standpoint, he has great hips, great transition, and he has great football IQ.”
Winston and Jeudy have connected two dozen times for 379 yards and a touchdown over the past four weeks, which included wins over playoff contenders Baltimore and Pittsburgh, giving the Browns (3-8) a glimmer of hope they can salvage their season.
To do that, they’d almost certainly have to get a win in Denver, which has its own blossoming duo in rookie quarterback Bo Nix and veteran wide receiver Courtland Sutton, who has 36 catches for 467 yards and three touchdowns over the past five weeks.
Winston took over when QB Deshaun Watson sustained a season-ending torn Achilles tendon in mid-October and in his first start in two years threw for 334 yards and three touchdowns in a win over the Ravens.
That performance had fans wondering why the team stuck with Watson for so long, but it sure didn’t raise Payton’s eyebrows.
Winston started the 2021 season for the…
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