Ja’Marr Chase on His Suspension for Spitting on Jalen Ramsey, Joe Burrow’s Return and more

Ja’Marr Chase on His Suspension for Spitting on Jalen Ramsey, Joe Burrow’s Return and more

Tomorrow, you issued the statement yesterday on Instagram the apology. Would you like to expand upon or explain it uh why you felt the need to issue the apology? Um just getting it out, just giving a moment to apologize to everybody. I just letting myself get out of control, out of character. Um basically messing over my name, organization, NFL, and everybody else associated with me. That’s pretty much it, though. Did you know in the moment that that it happened? Like what kind of did you did you kind of some what kind of happened in the course of that play to that led to you maybe going over the line you thought? I ain’t going to get all into detail all that but but I know of course I mean one question that people did have is that you didn’t mention Ramsay specifically by name in the apology. Was there any reason for that? Have you reached out to him kind of has there been any um you know conversations with Jaylen about what happened? Uh no we don’t have no conversations or nothing like that. I ain’t got no way to get in contact with him. So, what are these what are these what have you thought about being away from the facility over these last seven days and kind of processing everything that’s happened this season you’ve had up to this point? What have you thought about in the time away that you had? I had so much time. I was bored. I mean, I wouldn’t I didn’t know to think about everything at that time. You know what I’m saying? So, but it wasn’t really one thing I’m thinking about. I’m just trying to watch the game. Just worry about my you know what’s I can’t control at the end of the day. That’s what I’m worried about for real. How hard was Sunday having to watch? Um, it wasn’t hard watching the game at the end of the day. It was just I guess I can finally say I know how Cincinnati fans feel watching the game. It was a little nerve-wracking for me. Usually when I’m in the game, it’s not nerve-wracking, but watching it, it was for me. Yeah. Do you worry this is something that might follow you for a long time? What might the suspension? What led to it? No, I could care less for real. Is there something you want to prove this week or is it going to take longer to prove that that’s not you? That I mean, do you go out there with a different I mean, at the end of the day, I don’t really have nothing to prove who I am. I mean, either you like me or you don’t. I could care less. I’m still going to go for it. At the end of the day, I got kids. I got people to take care of. So, I could really care less. So, I’m going out there, be the same player I am. You know what I’m saying? And play football. As end of the day, ain’t nobody going to stop me from who I am. How do you how do you kind of is there a certain part of you that maybe recalibrates how to tow that line? I mean, you’ve been really passionate. You’ve got in it with guys before. Uh never really cross it the way you did on Sunday. Have you kind of thought about the way to how to maybe tow that line the way you want to best? How has that kind of been? Uh all I can say is there limits when stuff happens. You know what I’m saying? It’s limits and it’s a mountain of limits people can control and they going to allow. So that’s all I can say about that. How important were the was the support of not only Zack but everybody in the locker room to you and getting through what has obviously been a pretty tumultuous diffult week. Um you know I really didn’t have no conversation with nobody cuz I couldn’t. But um when I got back everybody was you know pretty much you know cheering me on just glad I’m back and let’s get back to work you know. So it was a lot of positivity going around. So, um, the only person that really had a chance to just text me was like T, you know what I’m saying? Checking up on me. Jamar, you and Joe are having different comebacks of sorts on Thursday night. How excited are you to play with him on Thursday? Um, it’s good to have him back. You know what I’m saying? I’m happy I got my friend back back out there. Glad he back. I know he’s excited for it. Um, what not a better game for him to come back and show what he can do. Did you think he was going to play last week? Like from afar when you’re watching, were you like, man, he’s going to come back and I’m not going to be there? No. Nah, you didn’t buy it. No, I didn’t. I ain’t going to lie. I I don’t I don’t think he I know he wanted to play, but I don’t I don’t think it was time, though. But it’s still okay, though. You know what I’m saying? I think there’s health over wealth. Is it time now? I hope it’s time. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? It’s been a minute. They gave him another week to relax and get his stuff back under him. So, his leg should be feeling good. Feet should be feeling good, and he should be ready. If we had asked you last Thursday if Joe should have played Sunday, what would you have said? Uh, I could say, “Can he play?” Yes. Would he play? I don’t know. So, I mean, you’ve been pretty vocal in the past with the cap. You’re like, “Listen, he needs to I’d like him to take some time. Maybe he’s still 100%. He still played anyways.” How do you feel like he’s grown in that regard in terms of maybe knowing when to push, when not to push, and listening to when other people say, “Hey, you know, it might be best to take some extra time.” Um, at the end of the day, it don’t really matter what everybody else had to say about what his situation is because it’s a him thing that feels everything that’s going on within his body. So, whatever the doctors tell him his amount of weeks that’s going on and if he could play after those weeks up, at the end of the day, it’s still up to him on if his his body feels good enough to be in a physical game like that, you know. How important how important is it to have the reps with him, you know, in the last few days and and that that has to feel good to you overall? Um, not really that many reps that I like that I had with him. I think last week was when he had a little bit of tart, like a lot more of practicing, you know what I’m saying? So, I wasn’t there for none of it. And, um, probably today will be the first time, you know, we really get an opportunity to really connect on some stuff with him and all, you know? So, um, we’ll just see how it goes. I mean, shouldn’t it shouldn’t go nowhere. When you look back at kind of everything that happened in that Steelers game, what’s probably now you got a lot of time to think about. What’s the thing you probably regret the most after with how everything went from before, beginning, after? Um, messing over my name. Like I said, how tough was that to see that kind of being everywhere the way that you were talked about, discussed in that way? Was that was that maybe the toughest part about it? It’s social media. Everybody got their opinion. Everybody going to say something, but it is what it is at the end of the day. You know what I’m saying? I keep my pointers on it. I watch it. I see who say stuff and it is what it is. So, I don’t really care. That’s something to keep in the back of your mind moving forward. No, not at all. No. You think opponents are going to try to bait you into more of that moving forward? They could. They already do it. They’ve been doing it. Ain’t nothing new at the end of the day. I mean, like I said, it’s a lot. It’s stuff that you going to allow and stuff that you’re not going to allow. It’s a limit to everything. Looking at Baltimore, it’s been a little bit of a odd year for them defensively. you know, they were struggling earlier in the year, starting to kind of find their footing again on the defensive side. What have you seen from them? And how exciting is it for, you know, you to get back in a big division Thanksgiving game like this? Yeah. Um, it’s not too not too It’s really not that much I know about Baltimore right now, just just overall looking at them. Um, I got to get back and watch them a little bit more cuz um I haven’t watched them on any games yet on TV or nothing like that. Um, but you know, overall they always have a great defense, great up front. um putting pressure, making it hard for the receivers. So, we got to do a good job of just creating separation, getting opportunities. You said there’s stuff you allow, stuff you won’t say again. You said there’s stuff you’ll allow, stuff you won’t allow. I assume Jaylen did something that you won’t allow. Um I’m sure it’s probably something like that. Care to disclose what he did? Of course not. Is it verbal or present? Safe to say having the back of your teammates is pretty high on your priority list as a captain. You say having my teammates’s back? As as a captain. Yeah. This team having their back is pretty for sure everybody know I’ll be the first one to do something for them. So is is there is there a way that being a captain now maybe changes your lens on how these things go? Um you know kind of how your team might need you in a different way than maybe it previously did it when you weren’t captain. Is that a is that something that you calculate at all? Does that matter at all? What’s that? What’s that like kind of putting that into that? I think me getting the captain role is making me a better person than who I am. That’s what comes with it. Just because the guys picked me that it makes me grow, too. Um, and they helping me grow. So, that’s what comes with the captain. Joe talked about he liked playing on Thanksgiving. Did you ever grow up on Thanksgiving? Um, yeah. Yeah, that was always a cool thing, you know, growing up that in Christmas. So, something pretty cool. Did you have any big memories of watching games growing up as a kid? Guys you liked any any anything y’all did? No, not really. No, not no great memories like that now. Joe’s back. You’re back after a one game absence. Do you feel like over the final six weeks you guys can go on a run here? Um, this was just the best opportunity to do it. You know what I’m saying? Um, missed out on a couple games early in this season, but we got to take take advantage of what’s in front of us and and execute as best as we can. I’m sorry. I’ve seen you talk a couple of times Chase Brown and guys obviously have come really close. What have you appreciated about the way he’s grown? Uh maybe I don’t know some leadership qualities as well, but what have you appreciated about the way he’s attacked the the game? Um overall Jake just been good to lean on for the game. Um asking questions, um coverages when I come to the sideline. Just overall any tips and details I could get from Jake, he does really good at of of helping and um you know I I I really do appreciate him for for stuff like that. I’m sorry, Chase Brown. Okay, Chase Brown. Um honestly, man, Chase has been playing incredible this year. Um overall, I mean, when I got back to the locker room, I told him how good he played last game. So, um, I just want to make sure I’m positive to him. Keep it going. Keep that keep that momentum he has. Keep building off it and, you know, make the offense better. What’s the biggest thing this team wants to accomplish given where yall in the record? How many games are left? What do y’all want to go out and do most over these next six weeks? Uh, the biggest thing is just pushing for the AFC championship. That’s the biggest thing. Trying to trying to win a division um as best as we can. We know we um played one team already, so you know, we got to get after it. You know what I’m saying? At the end of the day, um it’s not that many other games we have that that’s in the way for the for the division. So, the ones that we do have, we got to capitalize on it. Zach already said yesterday you guys won’t have T Thursday night. How much the first time he’s missed games. How much harder is it for you when he’s not off? Um a lot more zone. I would say it’s a lot more zones. Um, and really just six six strong when T was in a lot. You know what I’m saying? And play quarters and a lot of two. But um, now it might be like maybe some man with double if T’s not out there. You know, it probably play man with everybody else and just double me, you know. Who knows though? So, we got winners. It’s really rare that you you see star receivers get to stay together, have the relationship together, especially given how that position can go sometimes. Why do you and T get along so well, uh, when that’s not always the case around the league? Uh, I think it’s just because we both not selfish at the end of the day. You know what I’m saying? We both know what it takes to to be a receiver. We know how hard it is being receiver. Um, we don’t fight over the ball, nothing like that. um even when there’s plays that we might mess up on and we know that that person’s getting the ball, we might ended up switching it on accident and you know, so uh it’s never a moment where we both fighting for the ball. You referenced your teammates in your statement. Um did you let that stand or did you get up in front of the team and say anything? No, I didn’t get in front of the team, nothing like that. Yes. No.

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase is ready to catch passes from Joe Burrow again as the team prepares for the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving. Chase shares his thoughts on Burrow’s return, addresses his public apology for spitting on Steelers’ Jalen Ramsey, gives his view of Cincinnati’s postseason outlook, and more!

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