Joe Burrow Ja’Marr Chase Light Up TNF

And yet they’re contemplating a 4-6 record this weekend off before flying to Los Angeles next Friday to face the Chargers again in prime time on Sunday night.

“It’s crazy to say that,” Chase said. “I would never in a million years expect me to play that well and him to play that well and still have a record like this.”

Burrow, who had his fourth-best career game with 428 yards and nine touchdown passes in the last four days, also thought about Trey Hendrickson. Hendrickson didn’t have a hit against Jackson but still leads the league with 11 sacks.

“If you look at how we play and then Trey Hendrickson and how he plays, that’s a tough pill to swallow,” Burrow said. “Of course we had our chances. We know it’s hard and you feel like you’re playing well enough to win and that’s not the case. But there is still more to do.”

It’s hard to believe Chase could do that.

He added three more touchdowns to historic highs that show the versatility of his game. He became the second man to score 12 touchdowns from 60 yards before his 25th in his career^Th birthday while surpassing Bengals Ring of Honor member Issac Curtis’ club record of ten in his career. He is also now the only Bengals receiver with three 200-yard games.

And he did it, leading the Ravens with a 67-yarder that left the secondary in the dust with a simple crossing pattern, against the team he stunned on a 70-yard screen last month, and an 82-yarder -Whirlaway led to his death here three years ago as a newbie.

He also added another 70-yarder when he chased down a Burrow moonball for the 28-yard score with five minutes left. Then he got the Bengals back in the door with 38 seconds left with a completely different play, a nifty five-yard touchdown in the red zone.

It evoked the destruction that wide receiver AJ Green wrought with the Ravens over the past decade as a Bengal. Green had his biggest game against Baltimore with 227 yards, and three of his top 13 games came against Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who once groaned, “Maybe we’ll cover him one more time before he retires.”

Harbaugh had a similar sentiment Thursday after watching Chase post his second-best game ever with 264 yards, three of his top four games against Baltimore.

Chase is now trying to do what Cooper Kupp did in 2021 and Steve Smith Sr. did in 2004 by leading the NFL in catches, yards and touchdowns for the Triple Crown.

“He is a great player. I looked for him after the game and couldn’t find him. Maybe that was appropriate,” Harbaugh said amid laughter at the news conference. “I couldn’t find him either, but we doubled him a few times. We didn’t make those plays, we were there in zone coverage. He should have been covered. These plays shouldn’t have happened. There’s no doubt about it. “Those aren’t difficult plays that should be covered in the coverages we’re in, so that’s not the standard.

Or as his frequent target, Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey, said: “I’m sick of this guy. He’s just different. It’s not even so much about the route he runs, whatever. It just is.” [when] He gets his hands on the ball, if you don’t attack him soon things can get really ugly.

And when Chase ticked off the coverages the Ravens tried, it seemed like nothing was working as he burned them for 11 catches.

“In the second half they played by two once. It was really just about playing a lot of coverage,” Chase said. “I was traveling everywhere, so they were quartered in quarters of three [and] two [man coverage]. It just threw a lot of different coverage at me.

The chemistry between him and his college teammate Burrow is so long and has such a long history that they look for anything. Like the fourth and second game, nine minutes left and the Bengals are holding on to a 21-20 lead. Burrow shot from deep to rookie wide receiver Jermaine Burton, who broke free in a go pattern for a touchdown. Burrow easily knocked him to the ground.

“Me and Joe both know when we’re messing each other up,” Chase said. “At the end of the day, we don’t have to attack each other or talk to each other. We look at each other and then we move on.”

But of course that’s why Chase is so good. He believes that he is always open. Like the two-point game, the Ravens stopped after his final touchdown. But Burrow didn’t have time to reach Chase on the back side as he later pondered whether he should have escaped from the pocket.

“Live and learn,” Burrow said.

When a reporter asked Chase if he thought it was his best game ever against Burrow, he replied, “I don’t know, what do you think?”

“Then I agree with you,” Chase said.

But Chase doesn’t agree with the sentiment that they are eliminated from the playoffs after losing three games by five points to the Ravens and Chiefs.

“It sucked losing to these guys, but if we keep playing and winning, we’ll be where we want to be,” Chase said, “and have another opportunity to play against them.”