Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver JaMarr Chase talked some trash heading into his team’s Week 17 meeting with the Kansas City Chiefs, but Chase and the Bengals ended up on the short end of the stick.
The Chiefs came away with a 25-17 win, rallying from a four-point halftime deficit by holding Cincinnati scoreless in the second half.
Afterward, numerous Kansas City players let Chase have it.
“They counted us out. Told us we were done for. Another AFC West championship in the books. To be continued,” said defensive lineman Chris Jones after the game (via NFL UK). “And Ja’Marr Chase, errrr, try again.”
The Chiefs clinched the AFC West division title with the win, marking their eighth straight division crown.
“We don’t comment [on trash talk]. We just play, man,” Jones told reporters later, via KMBC 9. “We don’t really talk. We don’t engage with the back-and-forth. They do this every year.”
Cornerback L’Darius Sneed was matched up with Chase throughout the game, and the two rivals engaged in a physical skirmish at one point.
“We had some words,” Sneed said. “Check the stats.”
Chase logged just three catches for 41 yards.
“Forty yards is crazy to talk so much,” fellow Chiefs cornerback Jaylen Watson chimed in on X. “Sneed’s top three and not three.”
As for Chase? He did his best to shrug off everything after the game.
“I don’t know what he was doing,” Chase said, regarding the altercation with Sneed (via Marshall Kramsky of WCPO). “I just be under people’s skin sometimes, I guess, you know what I’m saying? The M-F-er won’t fight me so it’s alright.”
Chase added that Sneed “can’t handle” trash talk and said that the “whole [Chiefs] defense was mad.” Or, maybe they just had some extra motivation after Chase knocked Kansas City’s defense going into the game.
Whatever the case may be, the Chiefs got the last laugh. Not only did they clinch the AFC West, but they eliminated Ja’Marr Chase and the Bengals from playoff contention in the process.
More must-reads: