Ja’Marr Chase on Leadership, Adversity & Bengals Underdog Mindset

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00:00I mean, the energy is always there.

00:03I want to say our DBs is our energy of the team.

00:06You know, they always make an energy and be energetic.

00:08But overall, I think it's there, man.

00:11I think it's just the one in the will to fight the whole game.

00:14You know, when we're facing adversity, that's the biggest thing for us.

00:18How good do you guys have in Jake still?

00:23We got confidence in Jake.

00:24Jake's been here before.

00:25We all have been here with him.

00:26We know what it's like.

00:27You know, unfortunately, we're going to do a bump in the road.

00:30You know what I'm saying?

00:31It's going to happen.

00:32But, you know, like I said, it's adversity.

00:33You got to face it.

00:35Move on.

00:37What can you change from a play style standpoint to get the ball out quicker

00:43if that pocket does collapse?

00:47Pretty much more of a quick game.

00:49We didn't really do so much of that last game.

00:52But quick game is the best answer for that.

00:55Get it to outside.

00:57Jamar, you had some comments on social media after there was a lot made of you

01:01and Zach's interaction on the sideline.

01:03Given a few days now to kind of take all that in, was that overblown by a lot of people?

01:09Everything I do is pretty much overblown, I feel like.

01:12You know, but it happens.

01:13You know what I mean?

01:14That's normal, I feel like, for me and Zach.

01:16You know, that's not my first time doing that.

01:19Zach lets me walk up to him and talk to him like he wants me to do that.

01:22Sometimes my emotions, you know, pick up.

01:25And, you know, I might look like I'm yelling, but I'm definitely just talking to him sometimes.

01:29But that's normal.

01:30For you, I mean, I think people see that and they assume most receivers in the NFL are going to say,

01:35give me the ball, I'm frustrated.

01:36Yeah.

01:36You know, what's that conversation like, though?

01:40It's half of that.

01:41At the end of the day, you got to remember, we receivers are, we can't get the ball to ourselves.

01:47You know what I'm saying?

01:47And so that's the hardest part about our job at the end of the day.

01:49So if a receiver wants the ball, then that's good.

01:52If he doesn't want the ball, then that's not so good.

01:55Does he let you vent?

01:57Yeah.

01:58Yeah.

01:58He definitely does.

01:59Yeah.

02:01Is that good to have?

02:02No, it is good to have, especially when you're just going through a tough game like that.

02:05You know, Zach lets me talk to him and listen.

02:08Do you let him vent?

02:10He never vented to me yet.

02:12If he venting, I hope it's good.

02:16Yeah.

02:16Does he ever shoot you and said, not now?

02:18Is he always willing to listen?

02:20He's always willing to listen.

02:21He don't really push me off of nothing like that.

02:23Yeah.

02:25What does your role as a captain look like now?

02:27Is there, do you feel like there's more on you, especially with Joe out, to kind of be more?

02:34Yeah.

02:35Yeah.

02:35I stepped into more of a leader role now that Joe's out.

02:41I feel like I had to.

02:42There's a lot of accountability I got to take going forward for the offense, the receiver

02:53room, just the whole team in general.

02:55You know, those guys look up to me as one of the best in the league from my work ethic

02:59and the way I handle things.

03:00So going forward, I got to be that guy.

03:02Do you talk to him?

03:03Do you expect him to be on the sidelines Sunday?

03:05Joe?

03:06Hell no.

03:07You need to get ready.

03:09Don't come out there.

03:10They don't need to see you.

03:11Probably don't need to see Joe's face.

03:13Just get healthy.

03:13Come back later.

03:15He was around today.

03:16Did you guys have any conversations about just like his rehabbing or anything like that?

03:21No.

03:22I just said it was sub-9 and went to my little cave and hid.

03:25So you don't want to see – you would rather have him not see him Sunday or have him

03:30all working Sunday or we're going to get back?

03:32Yeah.

03:33Yeah.

03:34The more time he's sitting there watching us, the more time he's not working.

03:37Do you think he can help Jake though?

03:39On the field?

03:40No, on the sideline.

03:41I mean, yeah.

03:43Yeah.

03:43That's always a chance Joe can help for sure.

03:46But, I mean, hey, it happens.

03:53Like, it's for Jake to see at the end of the day.

03:57Joe won't always have Jake to be there.

03:59Jake won't always have Joe to be there, vice versa.

04:01So there's adversity.

04:03They got to feel the pressure.

04:04That would make quarterbacks good.

04:05They feel the pressure and they make decisions off of it.

04:08He was always on the sideline when he had the wrist those last seven games.

04:11Did you guys interact at all?

04:13Letting you know what he sees?

04:16Was he helpful?

04:17Honestly, I don't really think we had much to talk about.

04:20I think the most he was saying was to the quarterbacks and just like trying to get plays going.

04:24But he wasn't really talking to the receivers.

04:27Did you do anything different this week?

04:29Did you do anything different this week?

04:31No.

04:35I mean, I don't think I did.

04:36I came every day the same.

04:37Working every day the same.

04:40Do you pay attention to spreads or how much of an underdog you are this week?

04:45You're 10 and a half point of underdogs.

04:48What are you talking about, fancy?

04:49No, just...

04:50I don't even know what you're talking about.

04:51That's how I know it.

04:52I'm that lost.

04:53Nobody is expecting...

04:54My point is nobody is expecting you.

04:56Very few people are expecting you to win the game.

04:59Oh.

05:00Sunday.

05:00And you're big underdogs.

05:02Yeah.

05:02When you're that big of an underdog at home, any different mentality?

05:08No.

05:09I feel like people always made us underdogs.

05:11I feel like it's our job to make sure that we showed them the wrong.

05:14You know what I'm saying?

05:15Everybody's going to have their opinion.

05:16But at the end of the day, we weren't about what's in the locker room and what we can take

05:19care of on the field.

05:19But you said earlier, talking about keeping guys up when things start going bad and during

05:25the game, is that the hard part?

05:27Like during the week, everybody believes in the plan and you guys think you can win and

05:31you're working to get ready.

05:32But then when it starts to slide in a game, do you see people kind of maybe check out a

05:36little?

05:37If I'm being honest, I don't mind when the players get mad.

05:40I don't mind that because that means they care at the end of the day.

05:43You know what I'm saying?

05:43And I want guys to play with passion.

05:46I want them to play with anger.

05:47You know what I'm saying?

05:47Because you never know how guys might respond.

05:49And I told my guys that recently after the game.

05:51I just want them to play with a little more fire and anger underneath.

05:54If the team doesn't play better, do you threaten to take cereal boxes away?

05:57Or how does that work?

06:02I don't really do that.

06:08No.

06:08I mean, I gave a little speech after the game.

06:10Don't want to really say what I said.

06:11But, you know, I spoke up to the guys after the game about how I felt about what's going

06:15on.

06:17What kind of a challenge does Detroit's defense pose?

06:21Say that again?

06:21I'm sorry.

06:22What kind of a challenge does Detroit's defense pose?

06:26Well, they got a lot of guys on IR right now.

06:29So I think they're going to come out and play zone a lot.

06:33They're mostly a man team.

06:35You know, the sky's a couple of zones.

06:37But majority of the time, they're playing man.

06:38But against us, I think they're going to go zone.

06:40Do you prefer zone or man?

06:43Man, of course.

06:44Yeah.

06:44A lot of guys don't play us.

06:46I mean, Denver played us man last year.

06:48This year, they played us man the first quarter and went to zone after the whole game.

06:51So.

07:10Now, let's come to school.

07:14Let's go to school.

07:16Let's go to school.

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