Ja'Marr Chase joins Sports Illustrated from Radio Row ahead of Super Bowl 58. The confident wideout reminds everyone that when Joe Burrow was healthy the Bengals dominated the 49ers.
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00:00 Man, you already know who I got in the game. The future is bright. I got Jamar Chase. If
00:06 not the best, the best receiver in the league. I had Justin over here yesterday. We were
00:12 talking about the friendly competition that you guys got. Talk to me a little bit about
00:18 that and how you view it as far as Justin goes out, balls out. You got the night game
00:23 that night. I got to top him and I'm gonna let him know I topped him too.
00:27 Man, I came back from college, man. Me and him would really sit here and have an altercation
00:33 before the game and say, "Let's bet right now who's gonna have more touchdowns, more
00:37 yards, more catches." So we used to do each one, each game and see who come out with the
00:43 most targets that game or most catches. So we've been doing it for a while now and it's
00:47 just been growing and following us ever since then. It's been pushing us.
00:51 Okay. So you come from a long lineage of LSU great receivers. Before you is Odell Jarvis.
01:00 Before that it was an early Doucette. It was Buster Davis. It was Dwayne Bowe. When you
01:06 were coming up, being from New Orleans, were you looking up to those guys? Did you always
01:11 know I'm going to LSU? And on top of that, were you looking up to those guys modeling
01:15 your game after those dudes?
01:17 Yeah. Honestly, man, I didn't want to really go to LSU, man. It was just me just making
01:22 the decision with feelings at the end of the day and knowing that my family was right there.
01:28 But I actually wanted to travel, explore and get out of the state. I ended up then doing
01:35 that and it ended up working out good for me. So I mean, I can't complain. But at the
01:39 end of the day, it's just helping me be a better man at the end of the day.
01:43 Okay. So let's talk about the league, Cincinnati. You've been to the Super Bowl, your rookie
01:48 season. For a guy like Brock Purdy, who has not played in the game, what are some of the
01:55 things that you did not expect going from a regular season game to a Super Bowl game?
02:01 What are those types of distractions that maybe you were like, "Damn, bro, I didn't
02:04 know I was going to have to do all this this week"?
02:06 In the Super Bowl?
02:07 Yeah, for the Super Bowl.
02:08 The media, man. Honestly.
02:09 Okay.
02:10 Media, it just takes a toll on you out there. I would hear, "You got so much media to do."
02:20 I think it's two days in a row. If you're a high caliber player, then it's really the
02:27 whole week at the end of the day. So you got to be focused on what you came here to do
02:33 at the end of the day. I'm not saying that I got distracted, but it's just my first year
02:37 coming as this, as that, as this, as that, this, as that. But you got to remember the
02:41 main goal.
02:42 So this year, obviously your man, Joe B., got hurt. With him being healthy, do you think
02:49 y'all would have been in that conversation, top of the AFC?
02:52 A hundred percent. You ain't even got to finish that question, brother. A hundred percent.
02:55 I think everybody know that. We played the 49ers when he was a hundred percent healthy
02:58 then. That score was 31-17. So that discussion right there could set the market straight.
03:05 So the Chiefs, they got the Niners. Obviously when you play against the Chiefs in the AFC
03:10 Championship, you did some big damage. What do the Niners have to do? What does Brandon
03:15 Aiyu, what does Debo, what does Christian McCaffrey have to do to be able to take advantage
03:19 of that defense and get them a win?
03:21 Honestly, I feel like they just have to win their one-on-one matchups, man, at the end
03:24 of the day. And Kansas City going to give them one-on-ones because they got so many
03:28 weapons you can't just double Debo, Aiyu, Keto. You know what I'm saying? And you going
03:33 to stuff the box for Christian McCaffrey, then they going to throw the ball. So they
03:37 got so many weapons. All 49ers got to do is win their one-on-ones and pretty much just
03:42 get the ball in the receiver's facility.
03:44 So Jamar, you've done a lot of damage since you walked in the league. It's time for you
03:50 to get paid. The Bengals, how do you feel about your future being in Cincinnati?
03:58 My future bright, man, in Cincinnati. You know what I'm saying? I know I'm going to
04:00 be there the majority of my career. If not, there forever. And right now, this is the
04:08 first time where I'm getting the opportunity to see the real business side of contracts,
04:13 of players with contracts. So it's a toll, man, honestly. You know what I'm saying? And
04:19 Jesse Bates was the first person that it hit me with. You know what I'm saying? Jesse Bates
04:25 and Von Bell. And Von Bell was the first person that really sat there and gave me vet game
04:30 on contracts, on football, on organization. So Von Bell gave me a big leap in the game
04:36 and I couldn't say nothing but thank you. But it's still to this day teaching me and
04:40 I'm still seeing it now.
04:44 Who do you have winning the Super Bowl?
04:46 I got 49ers, Bob Filgo.
04:49 Bob Filgo?
04:50 Bob Filgo.
04:51 Give me your Mount Rushmore receivers history. And don't include yourself. You're going to
05:00 play about 15 years. You're going to be there. But right now, who you got?
05:05 You got four, baby. Kelvin Johnson.
05:10 Okay.
05:11 Got to go Randy Moss.
05:14 Okay.
05:15 He didn't do nothing insane like he did in college. But Peter Ward, my pops put me on
05:25 him.
05:26 Florida State legend, baby. Florida State legend. That's what I grew up on right there.
05:29 He was real nice, man.
05:30 That's true.
05:31 But I watched highlights. I didn't really watch him. So he was actually real shifty,
05:34 man. And I'm going to put Mike Evans in there just because he's one of the oldest and the
05:39 only oldest mud to do it right now with 11,000, 1100, whatever he got, man.
05:44 Thousand years.
05:45 11 years straight.
05:46 Yeah, 11 years straight. And in my last one, I'm going to go... Ooh, this is hard. I know
05:55 Devontae don't have A-Rod. He looking a little different. I'm going to go with Tyreek, bro.
06:02 Tyreek?
06:03 I'm going to go with Tyreek, bro. That man is crazy just because he's so fast.
06:07 He is. Talk to us about your partnership with Sleep Number, man.
06:11 Yeah, I'm here today with Sleep Number. As y'all know, they partnered up with 80% of
06:16 NFL players with Sleep Number to get those players to get better sleep and better performances
06:21 on the field. The thing I love most about Sleep Numbers is they reached out and actually
06:26 gave us a guide on how to get more sleep. They gave us a sleep number doctor to tell
06:35 us our sleep number skills, how much sleep we need to get, when to go to sleep, and the
06:43 rest time. And I think that's the biggest thing for athletes because you're an athlete.
06:47 We tired all the time. Not all the time we going to go to sleep at a certain scheduled
06:52 time. And I think that's what some athletes got to focus on.
06:56 Recovery is a big part of it. I will leave you with something. When you get older, that
07:00 recovery is going to be more valuable to you. Hey, Jamar, appreciate you, man.
07:04 Yes, sir. Appreciate you, brother.
07:06 (whooshing)