Cleveland Browns vs. Bengals: 3 Bold predictions for Week 16
By Randy Gurzi
2. Jabrill Peppers hands Hue the ball
The best part of the last game between these two teams came when free safety Damarious Randall intercepted an Andy Dalton pass and headed straight to Hue Jackson on the sideline. He handed Jackson the ball, which fired up his entire team.
While many players came out and said they liked the move, fellow safety Jabrill Peppers seemed most impressed. He saw Randall had blockers but thought him sacrificing yards — and maybe points — to insult Hue was the move they needed.
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"“He had a pick-six. He had blockers. He had the sideline. He saw Hue. He gave him the ball,” Peppers said of Randall’s play according to Marla Ridenour of the Beacon Journal. “So swaggy. The way he did it was just so swaggy, man. You need that. You need that out of your free safety, man, to get the guys picked up. We knew how big this game was and we wanted to come out on top.”"
Nothing flies in the face of the ‘players loved Jackson’ argument more than Peppers saying they needed to make Jackson look bad more than points. Here they will do the same and Peppers has already discussed his desire to again beat Jackson and the Bengals.
With that being said, look for Peppers to find a way to get his hands on the ball and in a tribute to his defensive backfield partner hand it right back to the man who held the whole team back for two and a half years.