NFL Week 1 -- Browns, Jags among Sunday's best trolls - ESPN

Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season provided some quality entertainment in the sport's return.

Carolina Panthers rookie Bryce Young threw his first touchdown against the Atlanta Falcons — which was then tossed into the stands by Hayden Hurst. Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield made their debuts for new teams, while the Sam Howell era began for the Washington Commanders.

Despite the first day of NFL football being full of on-field storylines, sometimes the battle was taken off of the gridiron and onto social media — as was the case on Sunday afternoon.

Here are the best executed virtual barbs from the season opener.

Divisional games usually have a heightened sense of hostility to them, but Bengals wideout Ja'Marr Chase entered Sunday's game feeling quite the opposite.

«It feels like a regular game to me,» Chase said ahead of playing AFC North rival Browns, per cleveland.com. «It don't feel no different. It's just the hooping and hollering about the Cleveland Browns. I was about to call them the elves, but yeah.»

«If you ask me, I don't really pay attention to it because Cleveland is Cleveland. I look forward to the matchups that we have when we're facing them, but other than that, I don't really be caring,» he added

Cleveland responded by thumping Cincinnati in its first season opening win by 20 points since 1989 and trolling its in-state rival.

don't mess with the elf pic.twitter.com/V8LOAEZBdB

safe travels, <a href=«https://twitter.com/Bengals?ref_src=» https:>@Bengals

pic.twitter.com/XoekzTYQMU

Anthony Richardson's NFL debut marked the eighth consecutive season opener for the Colts with a different starting quarterback, but the result was painstakingly familiar: a loss. They're now 0-9-1 in their last 10 season openers.

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