Ja'Marr Chase on Bengals' Win Over Ravens, Joe Burrow Return and so much more

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00:00Overall, I feel like we could have capitalized on a lot more.

00:03I'm pretty sure he could say the same.

00:07But I still think he did a good job of just keeping the momentum going

00:10when he had the opportunities to keep it going

00:12and capitalizing on those situations for the offense.

00:18You ended up with 110.

00:20The number was we went over 100 against them,

00:23and you seemed to continue to do that every time you were playing.

00:26What, you know, what's the reason for today?

00:30It looked like you left your one-on-one a couple times.

00:33It was pretty much man the whole game, if I'm being honest.

00:36It was just man-man combo.

00:39Safety was just cheating over pretty much the whole time.

00:41But today was just about making the contested catches, really what it was about.

00:45I got to do better on those other two that I had opportunities on,

00:49and that's the only way that I could get big plays and down the field.

00:54What's mentality like on third down for you?

00:56You know Joe's your quarterback.

00:58How does that make a change the way you know you finish routes

01:00or extend routes knowing that Joe's back there?

01:04It's a little different than Flacco because when Joe's there,

01:08I know where the ball is going.

01:08When Flacco is there, I don't, for real.

01:10So it's like when Flacco's back there, I got to win every route.

01:13You know what I'm saying?

01:14When Burroughs is back there, I know where the ball is going off the coverage

01:17with Burroughs in there.

01:19Is that something where you just got so many years in the bank

01:21that you know it because you've done it for so many years?

01:24I could say, yeah, repetition helped.

01:28Tomorrow, all season, you guys have talked about complementary football

01:31and the need, the offense and the defense.

01:33Well, in the first half, the defense, I think it's safe to say,

01:36kind of carried you at once.

01:37Of course, turnovers.

01:38In the second half, you get those two touchdowns.

01:41Yeah.

01:41How good was it to see you guys play complementary football?

01:45First off, I think our defense has been doing good the past two, three weeks.

01:49Just giving us opportunities after opportunities to make a play for each drive

01:53and just put a point on the board.

01:55They've been doing a good job.

01:56But as far as today, though, we've got to capitalize more off those turnovers.

02:00They've given us the ball multiple times.

02:02We've got to capitalize over those.

02:04What do you think the feeling is like in general with the team with Burrow's out there?

02:09Is there just a different feeling for the guys as a team that you could sense tonight

02:14just because he was the quarterback again?

02:20Yeah.

02:21I would say yeah just because everybody loves Burrow.

02:24You know what I'm saying?

02:24So it's a little more urgency when he's there.

02:28You know?

02:28I want to say urgency.

02:30Urgency is more up when he's there.

02:31Is that just by far how intense he is?

02:34What you feel like he's like intense?

02:36I would say so, yeah.

02:37We know how he is, so we know what he likes and how he likes it.

02:41So, you know what I'm saying?

02:41It's pretty much we know.

02:42Is it a little bittersweet having this kind of win,

02:45knowing the opportunities you all have, you know, having to come back

02:48and prove it in a better position?

02:49Is it a little tough kind of knowing how some of those games took by,

02:52knowing how long you all went tonight?

02:55Yeah, I mean, we know those games that, you know,

03:01we didn't finish off strong on.

03:03We know we were supposed to have those, but we can't worry about it.

03:05We just got to finish what's in front of us right now

03:07to put ourselves in the best position for the future.

03:09Was there any throw you thought come going?

03:11You know, you said you had knocked the rust off.

03:14I'm not even sure.

03:15I'm not even sure.

03:16I can't even tell you off the top of my head.

03:17But, yeah, I know first straight out the gate we was just trying to get him

03:21doing movements, getting him movements

03:25and just getting, like, easy catches going for him.

03:28What about training camp?

03:29You know what you're doing?

03:31I love Cheeto, man.

03:32I love Cheeto.

03:33But me and Cheeto go way back.

03:34He's been working with me since my rookie year.

03:36So there's always nothing but love and competitiveness

03:40when I'm going against Cheeto, yeah.

03:42Where are you guys going at it?

03:43We weren't going at it.

03:45He just held me on one of the plays.

03:46I didn't get the flag.

03:48And I'm like, Cheeto, you know you held me.

03:49But he's like, how, how?

03:50So, you know, that's my guy, though.

03:53It's pretty cool to see you come back.

03:54He's had a lot of injuries.

03:55You know, the last couple of years, he's been playing really well

03:57before the ACL.

03:58Who was it seeing him kind of come back and being in that spot for him?

04:00It's good just seeing anybody go through adversity from injury, man,

04:03because as an athlete, it's not easy going through injuries

04:07and coming off it and feeling a difference

04:09and your mental is all over the place.

04:11So I salute to him and everybody else.

04:12I just came back from injury.

04:13That being said, it seems like Joe was probably more reflective.

04:17Say it again?

04:17Joe was probably a little more reflective about tonight

04:20and him coming back from this injury than he has been in previous ones.

04:23Does that seem fair to say to you?

04:27I don't know.

04:27You think he's emotional?

04:29Potentially.

04:30It seemed like he was thinking a little bit more.

04:32He was hiding it from me then because I didn't see that.

04:34Yeah.

04:35I didn't see that.

04:36You said he didn't want to eat any turkey.

04:38He didn't trust it.

04:38Did you eat any?

04:39It was not that bad.

04:42It was not that bad.

04:43All of my life, watching the game on Thanksgiving,

04:47I would see players make the crazy face after they bite it

04:49because it was not good.

04:51But it wasn't that bad.

04:53Maybe I'm hungry, so who knows?

04:55Is that a bucket list moment for you?

04:57You ate turkey after a win on Thanksgiving?

04:58It was a bucket list, yes.

04:59Yes.

05:00What did they say?

05:00See si now.

05:01Oh, I mean, ever.

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