Landry calls Peters a 'coward' for apparent spitting on MNF

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry was disgusted after a video showed Marcus Peters of the Baltimore Ravens appearing to spit at him while his back was turned on Monday Night Football.

"He's a coward," Landry said Thursday. "I think he knew that maybe behind my back he'd do things like that, but to my face, he wouldn't. I take it for what it's worth. Now I know. Everybody knows the type of player he is, the type of person he is."

Peters hurled the supposed ball of saliva at the end of the first quarter. Landry found out about the incident after the game when he watched the replay.

Landry said he and Peters didn't have a hostile history entering the game and indicated their trash talk that night was nothing out of the ordinary. The NFL has thus far declined to comment on the matter, according to Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal.

"Wait until I turn around and do something like that," Landry said rhetorically. "It's like, do it to my face. Be a man about it if you're going to do something like that."

The Ravens cornerback responded to Landry later Thursday, denying the spitting was a calculated act.

"I didn't spit at Jarvis," said Peters in a statement. "Where I come from, when you have an issue with someone, you deal with it face-to-face, man-to-man. Anyone who believes that I intentionally spit at him does not know me - plain and simple."

Peters has a reputation for being temperamental dating back to his college days at Washington.

Landry finished Monday Night Football with six catches for 52 yards, but the Browns fell 47-42 to Peters and the Ravens.