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Ja'Marr Chase on Bengals' Loss to Browns, 2025 Season Disappointment and More
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00:00Tamar, what is the key to make sure that next year you guys can finish games?
00:05That's what Zach was talking about.
00:08I think the biggest opportunity is just putting ourselves in position during the beginning of the game.
00:15Starting off fast.
00:16Obviously, we've been preaching on that for the longest, but I want to say that's the biggest thing.
00:21We've got to be disciplined on the penalties like we have today.
00:25You know, just execute.
00:26That's the biggest thing.
00:26Execute when we have the opportunities and our defense has got to make plays.
00:29How disappointed are you with this season?
00:32It's disappointing the way how I go.
00:33Hell yeah, of course, yeah.
00:35It's disappointing the way how I went, but everything happens for a reason at the end of the day.
00:43You've got to sit here and just think about the season, how I went, and just see what went wrong.
00:48Jamal, Zach was asked about his message to the team in the locker room, and he said that this loss, it was fitting for you guys this year.
00:55What are your thoughts on that?
00:56You said it was fitting?
00:57Yeah.
00:57What does that mean?
00:59If that's what we had Zach in, like what Zach said, that it was fitting, like the way you guys lost the game.
01:03I don't even know what that mean, if I'm being honest.
01:05Being appropriate, he thought that this was an appropriate way for the season to end, given how.
01:11Like what, a loss?
01:12Yeah, that you lost in games.
01:14Y'all got to keep that question with him.
01:16That's not something for me.
01:17You don't sound like you're happy with that.
01:19I don't like losing.
01:20I don't know how this works.
01:23You know what I'm saying?
01:23Maybe that's probably say that for a draft pick or something, but I don't know how that works, so I'm going to stay in my lane.
01:28How happy are you that this season has finally come to an end?
01:31It's been a tumultuous, brutal season.
01:33It's been a rollercoaster.
01:36I think I'm just the most happy about just getting through the season and not being injured.
01:42I think that's the biggest thing for me.
01:45When you reflect on this season, Jamar, what will you take from it personally?
01:49I don't know.
01:55I didn't really take nothing personally from it.
01:56You know what I'm saying?
01:57This year, I didn't put myself first.
02:00Trying to be a team leader and just be a captain and stuff like that, so I didn't put myself first at all.
02:05For you, Jamar, what's the process look like over the next few weeks, month or so, now that the season is over?
02:12I'm going to go to Cancun like everybody tell me to do.
02:14And I'm going to enjoy myself because I don't have nothing else to do, so I'm going to take myself there.
02:21Does Zach and his coaching staff still have your utmost confidence?
02:27I am very confident in myself.
02:30I'm confident in the places they call for me to get open.
02:34Are you a guy who watches the playoffs and Super Bowl, or do you just have to totally get out of football at this point?
02:40I watch it a little bit.
02:42I get mad watching it, but I still watch it a little bit.
02:45You've known now for a few weeks that you guys aren't going to the playoffs.
02:49When it sits like it has for a few weeks, is it going to motivate, drive the team so that you don't have this again next year?
02:58I mean, everybody should be motivated who's been on the team the past three years.
03:03They know how it's been.
03:04They know what it is.
03:06At the end of the day, I'm going to say this.
03:08If you're going into the offseason and you're not motivated from what happened this past season, you shouldn't be on the team.
03:13You shouldn't play football, period.
03:14So that's my saying about that.
03:16Do you think that's the same can be said to the front office and ownership, that they have to be motivated, they have to be willing to do things to change as well?
03:25Oh, yeah.
03:25100%.
03:26How many catches did I have today?
03:41Eight.
03:42Oh, I was two off.
03:43Two off.
03:44Motherf***er.
03:45Ain't that some s***.
03:46Um, yeah, I mean, I guess I'm satisfied.
03:50I was really wanting to score my last game, so I mean, I'm fine.
03:54I'm cool.
03:55It's a good note to end the season on, what you thought was a game-winning touchdown catch.
03:59Um, yeah.
04:02But I wasn't even too happy after.
04:03Like, I was, there was a lot going on on my part, but, you know, as long as I was still there for the team and had my energy up, then I'm fine.
04:10Can you share what was going on?
04:13I was a little angry.
04:14I was pissed.
04:15Why?
04:15Okay, I'm not saying why, but I was pissed, though, for sure.
04:18I was pissed, for sure.
04:19There were some people who were upset.
04:21You seemed to be one pointing down the field when the Browns were celebrating the sack.
04:26Yeah, I don't think they can do that.
04:27I never knew you could let the whole team get on your field.
04:30That's like me catching my tenth pass and the whole team running on the field.
04:34We're going to get flagged.
04:35You can't do that.
04:36You know what I'm saying?
04:37But congrats to him and everything, but, you know, they got to call a flag on that play.
04:40You guys were trying to go win the game.
04:42We were trying to hurry up, too.
04:43We couldn't even hurry up.
04:43The refs was looking at us like we did something wrong the whole time.
04:46So it was, I don't know what was going on in that play.
04:49Did they give you any kind of explanation of why it stopped?
04:51Um, no.
04:52I mean, do y'all interview the refs?
04:55Apparently, Zach said the refs told him after the fact that they had decided they were going to stop the game, but never informed.
05:02What do you mean, stop the game?
05:03Stop the game to let them celebrate the moment.
05:05Well, I hope.
05:06Oh, well, they better stop the game when I do something in my back end.
05:10That's all I got to say about that one.
05:12So, that's all I got to say about that one.
05:12That's all I got to say about that one.
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