Ja’Marr Chase wants a chant of his own in Cincinnati, and he’s already got the word picked out.
Tee Higgins has long had Bengals fans yelling “TEEEEEE” when he makes a play. Now Chase is asking for something similar, with the receiver pitching “BLURRRRRRR” as the stadium-wide call whenever he catches the ball.
He made the case while talking with Higgins on the latest Chasing No. 1 Podcast.
“My message to the fans: I would just piggyback off what Tee said. I think this year, you know how Tee got his Tee thing, right?"
Chase began. "I think I want the fans to go blur every time I catch a pass or a deep pass.
There you go. So the whole stadium goes blurrrrrr.
That'd be crazy, though. That'd be cool."
Higgins liked the idea, but he also had a message of his own for Cincinnati.
"My message would be: enjoy," Higgins noted. "We're gonna do everything we can to make y'all proud.
Try to bring you a championship back to the city. I know how much y'all want it, how much y'all need it.
That's definitely our main goal. And I gotta dance for y'all.
I'm gonna hit the down the way once, but I got a new thing that I'm gonna start doing on most of my touchdowns; he knows what it is."
The Bengals get their first shot at giving Chase that chant this Sunday at 1 p.m. ET against the Buccaneers.
Chase comes into the season after a big year at home, where he posted 79 catches for 976 yards and seven touchdowns.
He also pointed to the team’s growth as a major step forward, especially when he looked back at the Bengals’ Super Bowl season and compared the makeup of that roster to the one now.
"The environment," Chase said about the biggest growth area. "I'm saying, like, how much energy has been given off from offense and defense-wise.
I think that's the biggest part. I also think that.
From the year we went to the Super Bowl, we had a lot of experienced guys on the team, so they were already vets. A lot of them were vets, packed with vets, so a lot of the stuff was pretty much everybody on the team was older.
I think the younger people were Joe (Burrow), Tee, me, and Drew Sample.
"Around that time, everybody was really young. Everybody else was older, and right now we're getting pretty much the older guys, which is us now, and then we add into the same thing. So I just feel like it's coming full circle for us."
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