Ja'Marr Chase on Joe Burrow Addressing Bengals After Loss to Titans
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00:01 How would you characterize Joe's demeanor when he
00:04 addressed the team after the loss in Tennessee?
00:08 You could tell he was frustrated for the loss.
00:10 Like I said, he got a lot of passion for the game, and he
00:12 shows it when we lose.
00:13 And as a captain, that's what we need from those guys.
00:16 And to pick the team back up, let them know that we just
00:20 faced adversity.
00:21 We're out back against the wall.
00:22 Now we've got to fight it.
00:22 What was it just the message?
00:24 I know he didn't want to say verbatim, but to summarize,
00:27 what did he want to convey to y'all?
00:29 Really that our back's against the wall, and we've got to
00:31 fight, like I just said.
00:33 That's the biggest thing he said.
00:34 We're in a slump right now, and we've
00:35 got to get out of it.
00:36 Has he ever--
00:37 I mean, is that kind of the way he delivered it, or what he
00:40 said, is there anything similar he's done?
00:42 That's not quote, unquote, word for word what he said, but
00:45 that's what he said.
00:46 But generally, kind of the tone and what he
00:49 wanted to convey.
00:49 Is there a similar time he's done that
00:51 before in the past?
00:53 I don't know.
00:57 I can't even tell you, honestly.
00:58 I don't know.
00:59 Sorry.
01:00 Is that something you personally needed to hear, or
01:03 did you already feel that, the back's against the wall?
01:07 I feel like every game we lose, our back's against the
01:09 wall, you know what I'm saying?
01:10 And we've got to target on our back just because of the
01:14 people we have on this team, the amount of
01:17 chemistry we have.
01:18 And the hard workers we have on this team, too.
01:21 Everybody wants to be good.
01:23 So I mean, we've got to keep fighting.
01:26 Did you feel a different sense of urgency this week after
01:29 that speech?
01:30 He called it a must win yesterday.
01:31 I'm sure you all feel that way as well.
01:33 Is it any different?
01:34 Is it the same?
01:36 I wouldn't know.
01:37 You know what I'm saying?
01:38 We go in every week with saying it's urgency.
01:40 But I mean, you've got to want to practice at the end of the
01:43 day, too.
01:44 It's got to be on you.
01:45 You've got to want to practice.
01:46 You've got to want to go out there and have fun and enjoy
01:48 this.
01:48 You've got to take it all in at one time.
01:50 So--
01:50 Zach talked about getting into rhythm early.
01:53 Especially that first drive, when you all have been in good
01:55 rhythms early in games over the course of your career.
01:57 What does that feel like when you're all on the field?
02:00 It feels good, man.
02:00 When you're winning, that's when it's the
02:02 most fun is for you.
02:02 So--
02:03 When you get a sense of what--
02:05 what does it feel like when you're between snaps, when you
02:07 feel like, OK, this feels like a good rhythm?
02:10 What's a sense of it?
02:13 I honestly can't tell you.
02:14 It's just like you're just going in the moment.
02:16 It's like--
02:18 almost like an instinct, basically.
02:20 It's just constantly moving.
02:22 Did you feel that way against the Rams when
02:25 you had the big game?
02:27 Yeah.
02:27 I mean, it was just--
02:29 I knew I was in a groove when I tried to hurdle somebody.
02:31 That's when I knew I was in a groove.
02:32 So I tried to take over my takeover mode, and didn't do
02:36 it well.
02:37 Did anybody tell you not to do that?
02:39 Stan, honestly.
02:39 I actually heard Stan yelling, don't jump.
02:42 So it was pretty funny hearing that.
02:44 You could hear before you took off?
02:45 I heard him, yeah.
02:46 I heard him say it before I took off, yeah.
02:48 Had you already made up your mind?
02:49 Yeah.
02:50 Yeah.
02:51 Yeah, he was going low the whole game, so I already knew.
02:54 Have you ever hurdled anybody?
02:55 I'm sure you've tried.
02:56 In my-- like in score, or just like a regular?
02:59 Oh, you did in the cheats in '21.
03:01 As a rookie, or last year?
03:02 Last year, I believe.
03:04 Yeah, last year.
03:04 Last year on the bench route.
03:06 So this is kind of a random question.
03:08 This will be the first time you all have been back since the
03:10 '18 Fiesta Bowl at that field.
03:12 Arizona, right?
03:13 Correct.
03:13 I'm excited as hell to play on that field.
03:15 Why is that?
03:16 It feels good, man.
03:17 Just overall, just going first off, it's grass.
03:21 Second, it feels fast.
03:22 Like, you feel like it's fast.
03:24 And third, I feel like it's a spring under there for me.
03:28 I feel like I can jump and run fast when I'm in there.
03:31 So I like that grass.
03:32 Do you remember when Carl got hit on that 6-6?
03:37 That was that game, huh?
03:38 Damn.
03:40 That was a change of his life, everyone said.
03:42 You feel like that was true?
03:43 Because everyone said that was--
03:44 Honestly, when I was younger, I was believing it.
03:46 Not going to lie.
03:47 I was in the believe of that.
03:49 But I didn't know him that much before that.
03:52 And I was a freshman.
03:53 He was a what?
03:55 Sophomore?
03:56 Or was he a junior?
03:58 Yeah.
03:59 I'll be forgetting I only did two years of college.
04:02 Damn.
04:03 But you feel like that after that, that
04:04 was kind of the origin moment for him?
04:06 He just kind of turned?
04:07 No.
04:08 I mean, I can see after I scored the end there, that game,
04:12 I felt the chemistry with me and him after that.
04:16 That's when we started to finally click in
04:18 and started throwing the ball, just like throwing me the ball
04:20 more and just expecting me to be open, as I should say.
04:23 So him getting nailed on the pick six wasn't the origin?
04:27 Nah.
04:29 Nah.
04:29 But it was that game you guys felt like you had a rhythm?
04:33 That's when I felt the rhythm click for us two.
04:36 For me and him in college, yeah.
04:37 Now, I'm sorry.
04:38 I got in late.
04:39 You see the Fiesta Bowl.
04:40 Oh, the Fiesta Bowl.
04:41 OK.
04:42 So this is the second time you've played?
04:44 Yes.
04:45 How do you like the field?
04:48 Quick on grass.
04:49 I feel like that that's usually the opposite.
04:51 Usually, players feel faster on turf.
04:55 Or is that not true?
04:57 I don't know.
04:58 That's a good question, man.
05:00 We don't play on a lot of grass, I feel like, besides Cleveland,
05:04 Steelers, maybe Baltimore.
05:07 Baltimore got grass, right?
05:08 So y'all were the only A-14--
05:10 With turf, right.
05:11 I mean, so it's like--
05:13 Yeah, it used to be, but I don't feel that.
05:16 I can't really tell the difference.
05:18 But I just know AZ, I felt like that in AZ.
05:21 I heard some people say Tennessee turf was like that.
05:26 And they felt they was feeling fast,
05:27 but I didn't really feel it.
05:30 Do you think it's just going to take one big play
05:32 to get you guys rolling?
05:34 One big play.
05:35 Yeah, man.
05:36 I feel like we--
05:37 just one big play, you know what I'm saying?
05:40 I felt like we did that at the beginning of the Tennessee game.
05:42 That we had that first momentum going at first drive,
05:45 and we got all the way up the field.
05:47 We didn't score right there.
05:49 That was the momentum we needed.
05:52 How do you keep that, and how do you get it into the end zone
05:55 there, the first half?
05:57 I guess a big talking point outside of here, too.
06:01 Guys got to be down to detail right there, even myself.
06:05 I messed up one of those plays.
06:08 I think you got to execute.
06:10 I think that's the biggest thing, being on the same page.
06:11 Communication, executing.
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