NFL players appear to be competing for the title of "Most Disgusted With Terrelle Pryor." After he sustained harsh personal attacks in November from Janoris Jenkins and others, Pryor found himself Sunday on the receiving end of more verbal abuse by Adam "Pacman" Jones.On the field, Jones and Dre Kirkpatrick frequently matched-up with Pryor, limiting him to three yards receiving. A sharp drop off from Pryor's last game, before last week's bye, when he racked up 131 yards on six receptions with 12 targets against Jenkins's Giants. After the Bengals beat the Browns 23-10 at Paul Brown Stadium, dropping Cleveland's record to 0-13, Jones lit up Pryor like a Christmas tree. A filthy, rotten, icky Christmas tree that smelled really bad:"Garbage," Jones said six times in 20 seconds. Jones also, amusingly, checked a nearby trash can to see if Pryor was inside. "Get him outta there! You see him in there?! Better find someone to play with him." Jones also added that "Pryor suck[ed]."After the Week 12 game, Jenkins calls Pryor a "sh*t eater." Now, to Pacman Jones, Pryor is "garbage" and "suck(s)." What was the deal this time? Jones said that Pryor told Cincy's defensive coordinator Paul Guenther, at some point in history, that the Bengals would cut Jones because he wasn't any good anymore. Pryor was with the Bengals briefly, as a quarterback, during the 2015 offseason. Via ESPN:"He told my coordinator that he's going to cut me after the game," Jones said. "For a guy that's been a slouch around the league at quarterback, played decent this year for his first year at wide receiver. I'm saying all this facade, all the fake hard [stuff] that he plays out on the field. That ain't Terrelle. I checked his background. He's a suburbs kid from Pittsburgh."Terrelle Pryor was right there the whole game," he continued, "right there in the garbage can. Next question."(Aside: "A suburbs kid from Pittsburgh" would make a great T-shirt, whatever it might connote.)Pryor has not responded to Pacman yet, ike he did with kindness to Jenkins. However, he did tweet a banal, "Talk is talk" earlier in the week after Jones called him "just a guy" to the Cincinnati Enquirer.In his public, Pryor has been turning the other cheek acting diplomatically. Is there another side of him that opposing players see that prompts such a vitriolic response from some opponents? There just seems to be some information we're missing on what kind of prerson Terrelle Pryor is. Unless these NFL players just don't like Ohio State guys?
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