Ja'Marr Chase on Bengals' Loss to Ravens on Thursday Night Football

Cincinnati Bengals On SI

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00:00It was overall a good day by myself, but I wish we could have had the team win.

00:04Do you have any perspective why you feel like this team lacks a killer instinct?

00:10I mean, a couple of these games you guys have had a lead or

00:13let it really slip through your fingers.

00:15Why do you think the team is lacking that this year?

00:17I don't think we have a lack of killer instinct.

00:20I just don't think we finished in the right way at the end.

00:23I feel like the offense had a chance to put it away.

00:29We didn't.

00:33Cam also had a chance to put the game away and we didn't, so we let that slip short.

00:38Do you feel like the ball should have gone to you on that final play?

00:43Yeah, I mean, I always feel like that as a receiver, you should want the ball, yes.

00:45But sometimes, Joe don't see it.

00:49What did you think of the decision to go for two, is that what you expected?

00:51Say it again.

00:52What did you think of the decision to go for two, is that what you expected?

00:54Yeah, hell yeah, I agree 100%.

00:57A historic primetime performance, but you lead with a loss.

01:00How do you think you put all that together?

01:05Play that well, not get it wrong.

01:09Honestly, man, it's just two great football teams going at it on Thursday.

01:14And every time we play Baltimore, it's a hard fight.

01:19It's always a dogfight with Baltimore and the game's always close to the end.

01:24So we just gotta learn how to put it away, man.

01:26You are the third and two, the fourth and two, walking off the field.

01:29How frustrated are you that you didn't convert there?

01:33I'm pissed off, of course, but that's a game of football, you know what I'm saying?

01:37Sometimes we don't get what we want.

01:40But we gotta come out the next drive and execute it.

01:43Hopefully we do better than we did last time.

01:44Were you open on the two point conversion?

01:47Yeah, I'm always open.

01:49Did they do anything different in the second half than the first?

01:56Did they make any adjustments?

01:59They played two man second half one time.

02:01But no, not really.

02:02They was really just rolling through a lot of coverages.

02:05I was moving all over the place, so there was quarters, three, man, two.

02:10They was just throwing a lot of different coverages at me.

02:12The two long ones, were they man?

02:16One was three buzz and another one was quarters.

02:22So you just felt man?

02:24No, it was a hole in the dagger window.

02:27I attacked the ball, it was a good job of me attacking the ball and

02:29just making a play after.

02:31And the second one was quarters.

02:33The safety came down on my side, and

02:34once he came down, that mean I'm going to the post area.

02:37How much did their defense change without Kyle Cullen?

02:41Did you notice?

02:42I'm not really focused that much on how much they changed in it.

02:45I think they just put Marlon at nickel and just played through it like that.

02:50The sentiment in the locker room was really that it hurts us.

02:53How does this loss really reframe how you think about the season in this way?

03:00I don't know, we didn't have some tough losses this year, all close games.

03:05I don't know, I think we just got to find a way to finish.

03:09We've been doing this, every loss we had, we didn't finish.

03:12So we just got to find some type of way to finish.

03:16They changed up for me, they didn't play the same way they played against

03:20the other team, but- No, not really, a lot of cloud and sensing.

03:25You mentioned the finish thing.

03:26Do you think that carries over from one game to the next?

03:28Or is each game kind of its own thing?

03:30It carries on every game of the season, it's not just one game.

03:32Do you feel like this is the best game to do with Joe Boca and

03:36Marlon together in this situation?

03:38I don't know, what do you think?

03:42I'll agree with you then, yeah, yeah.

03:44The one that, the last touchdown was by the outer of the red zone.

03:50I forgot all about that.

03:52Yeah, what was your, I mean, it looked like you were double, right?

03:56No, it was cloud over there.

03:58I ran like a corner route off the safety.

04:03And corner was in, I mean, safety was inside leverage.

04:05So I had an out route while he inside.

04:07Did you break it off, or was that the call?

04:10That's the call.

04:10Did you say anything to Joe after the fourth down?

04:14Say it again?

04:15Did you say anything to Joe after the fourth down?

04:16It looked like he was pretty upset.

04:19The one he threw the bird in?

04:20Yeah.

04:21Do you think- What's the dialogue?

04:22I mean, given that how well y'all know each other,

04:24I mean, what's the dialogue like after that,

04:25where you feel like, hey, I probably could have as well?

04:27I mean, I'm not going- Me and

04:31Joe both know when we mess up with each other, you know what I'm saying?

04:34At the end of the day, we don't have to go off on each other or talk to each other.

04:36We just give each other a look and we move on.

04:38How frustrating has it been that y'all played as well as y'all have had this season

04:41and still under 500 to take aim to?

04:44Yeah, it's crazy to say that.

04:45I would never in a million years expect me to play this well,

04:48and he played this well, and we still have a record like this, so.

04:51Do you feel like when you talk about finishing,

04:53that's something that you guys can achieve,

04:56or do you feel like that's something that a team just either has or doesn't have?

04:59That's something we could achieve.

05:00I mean, we've been showing it this whole time.

05:04You know what I'm saying?

05:06It just comes down to the last two minutes every time.

05:08Four and six now, still have seven games left.

05:11All the confidence that this team can still make the playoffs.

05:15Yeah, I do, 100%.

05:17I mean, we showed it tonight, what we can do.

05:19You know what I'm saying?

05:20Like I said, Baltimore's a great team, and they come out and fight.

05:22Every game is a hard fight with them, so.

05:24You're gonna need young guys down the stretch, Chase, Yosevash, Mims.

05:28They've never been in a spot like this before.

05:31What do you tell those guys?

05:32I've never been in this spot either.

05:34You know what I'm saying?

05:37Gotta keep fighting, move forward.

05:39You know?

05:40Do you feel the game change ever forward?

05:44You feel a little bit of momentum.

05:46I mean, you feel the crowd.

05:47That's about it.

05:49Is it also frustrating that y'all play Baltimore as well as y'all have this year?

05:52Kansas City as well as y'all have.

05:54Only three of both those teams.

05:56Given where y'all want to go, what's the actual level of frustration?

05:59How well do you play those three teams?

06:05Sucks losing to those guys, but we keep playing and win.

06:12We'll be where we want to be, and we'll have another opportunity for those guys.

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