After a controversial end to their Week 17 game last season, the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys didn’t really need any more drama to make their 2024 rematch a must-see showdown. But Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown added fuel to the fire anyway.
Appearing on “The Pivot Podcast,” St. Brown said Cowboys veteran Jourdan Lewis was his “least favorite” defensive back in the NFL because of the amount of trash talking Lewis did in last year’s matchup, which the Cowboys won 20-19 after a failed 2-point conversion attempt with 23 seconds left in the game.
“He was talking crazy. Like some [expletive] that I’ve never heard before,” said St. Brown on the July 9 podcast episode.
“He was talking crazy out of pocket. Even [Lions receiver Jameson Williams] heard it too,” St. Brown said. “Once he starts talking like that it’s, like, all right, if I do get a chance to kill him, I’ma kill him.”
St. Brown may get that chance when the Lions visit the Cowboys on October 13.
Lions’ Amon-Ra St. Brown Blasts Cowboys CB Jourdan Lewis
Lewis didn’t have a particularly good season for Dallas in 2023. But he had a reason to be trash talking the Lions in Week 17, according to the Pro Football Focus player grades.
Against the Lions, Lewis was graded an 87.4 by Pro Football Focus, his best mark in any individual game last season.
Of course, St. Brown wasn’t bad either. He had 6 receptions for 90 yards and a touchdown along with an 11-yard run.
Lewis defended a pass while in coverage against St. Brown during the Lions’ 2-minute drill at the end of the fourth quarter. But St. Brown caught an 11-yard touchdown to pull Detroit within 1 point with 23 seconds remaining.
Detroit converted a 2-point attempt, but it didn’t count because of an illegal formation penalty.
Cowboys’ Jourdan Lewis Claps Back to St. Brown
Lewis responded to St. Brown’s comments about him only hours after the podcast episode appeared on YouTube.
“It’s only for ya’ll fr.,” Lewis posted on his Instagram Stories, adding a smiling emoji.
Lewis added another response in a second post on his Instagram Stories.
“I am passionate about my craft and I don’t want to be friends with everyone, especially a Detroit Lion not from Detroit.”
Apparently, Lewis takes exception to Lions players not from Detroit. But by that logic, players would only be allowed to play for their hometown teams.
Interestingly, Lewis is from Detroit. He attended Cass Tech in Detroit for high school and played college football at Michigan. The Cowboys, though, drafted Lewis in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft.
St. Brown is from Anaheim Hills, California, attending high school at Mater Dei in nearby Santa Ana.
Too bad he didn’t grow up in Beverly Hills. If he had, maybe Lewis would look at St. Brown more favorably due to the Axel Foley connection.
Regardless of the reason, there seems to be a growing beef between St. Brown and Lewis. They will share the same field again during Week 6 on October 13.
