Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase owned up to his trash talk after the Week 1 loss to the Cleveland Browns — and in a pretty funny way, too.
In that game, the 24-3 whipping in the rain, Chase led all Bengals players with five catches for 39 yards on his nine targets.
Buy Bengals TicketsBrowns cornerback Martin Emerson Jr. stressed this week that Chase had thrown out “disrespect” before the game.
“Every game we’re coming out and we’re on a mission,” Emerson said, according to Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. “We’ve got goals and things that we want to reach as a group. So honestly, it doesn’t matter if (Chase) didn’t say anything, we were going to come out with the same energy and the same guys. But he did — how do I want to say this — he did disrespect us and whatever he say, he got to stand on it. And I feel like they didn’t back that up. And whatever you say, you just got to stand on it.”
It’s just more proof that professional athletes can’t say pretty much anything or it will become bulletin-board material (remember the silly “Burrowhead” drama?).
Chase and the Bengals won’t see Emerson and the Browns again until Week 18 on January 7.
