WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Wish Upon A Star 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.279 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:13.000 the Bengals Booth Podcast. When You Wish Upon a Star 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.639 edition as we devote an entire episode of the podcast 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.040 to a player that many of you are wishing for 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.160 with a fifth overall pick in this year's draft, LSU 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.840 wide receiver Jamar Chase. You'll hear from his high school 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.520 coach back home in New Orleans, the voice of the 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:36.240 LSU Tigers, NFL Draft expert Daniel Jeremiah, and Sam Munson 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.440 from Pro Football Focus, who has Chase ranked as the 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.879 best wide receiver in the last two NFL drafts, and 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.239 we know how good last year's class was. The Bengals 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.760 Booth Podcast is presented by Bud Light. Seltzer Refreshed the Game, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.920 and here's a quick reminder that you can have the 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.120 latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.520 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:07.480 or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since Mick Cronan 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.480 taking UCLA to the Final four. Mick has been my 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.160 friend for roughly twenty years as the Bearcat's radio announcer. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.840 During his thirteen years as Cincinnati's head coach. We celebrated 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.200 memorable wins together, shared a ton of laughs, enjoyed great meals, 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.280 and traded parenting tips. Since my son Sam and his 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.559 daughter Sammy were born about five months apart. I am 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.280 thrilled that Mick is getting praise from coast to coast 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.720 for the incredible job he's done with this UCLA team 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.679 and is finally being recognized as one of the top 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.399 coaches in college basketball. Furthermore, I couldn't be happier for 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.240 his dad, hep, his right hand man Darren Savino, and 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.920 all of the UCLA folks with Cincinnati ties. You know 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.960 the old saying good things happen to good people. Well, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.840 Mick Cronan is good people, and mark my words, this 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.760 is his first trip to the Final Four and it 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.960 won't be his only. Now time to turn our attention 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.320 to twenty one year old Jamar Anthony Chase. Jamar attended 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.000 Archbishop Rummel High School in Metory, Louisiana, a suburb of 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.320 New Orleans, and played for a coaching icon named Jay Roth, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.000 who led the school to twelve league championships in his 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.920 twenty four years as head coach. Jay, do you remember 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.520 when you first became aware of Jamar and what your 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.640 initial impressions of him were. Yes, I do his first 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.359 game as a sophomore, he said a school record with 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.200 four touchdown receptions over a two hundred yards receiving as 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.919 his first game as a receiver, and I knew we 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.760 had some special It sure sounds that way. Did you 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.600 adjust your style of play to take advantage of his ability? Yes, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.079 Going into his junior year, we went to a spread offense, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.560 a no huddle spread offense after what I saw he 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.359 did as a sophomore, and it's like, you know, seeing 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.560 that you have a thousand and two thousand yard running back, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.519 saw that we had a receiver there was one of 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.160 the best athletes has ever come to the school, and 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.480 we literally changed our offense. Yes, what was he like 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.079 to coach? He was like every other young man, except 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.040 he was a star in his own right, but a 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.440 humble star. He never once knocked on the throwing the 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.320 coach and one more touches, or never had dad come 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.400 in and complain about anything. I mean, he was all 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.240 the receiving records at Rummel, but he's just a team player. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.120 I mean he I mean one catch and he was 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.000 blocking his butt off whatever we needed he did. He 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.000 was just a pleasure to be around. And you know, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.760 in this day and age of athletes being where they 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:41.880 concentrate on one sport, Jamar came into Rommo. He played football, basketball, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.640 and the state champion track you know, long jump, triple 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.920 jump guy. So I mean he was, he was. He's 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.440 a true athlete. We're talking to Jay Roth, who was 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.040 Jamar Chase's high school coach. What do you consider his 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.240 best trait to be his strong hands and his physical Actually, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.560 he's just a physical strong weight room and strong hands. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.400 I mean he could just grab a football and latch 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.200 onto it. He could take somebody and block him and 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.800 just barry him in the ground if he wanted to. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.400 And you know, people had trouble pressing him at a 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.360 line of scrimmage because he was just so quick and 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.240 so strong, and he at receiving speed. You know, I 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.880 never saw him get caught. People always might have said, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.640 you know, he's not a four to two four three guy. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.120 Well that's fine, but the nobody ever caught him more. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:30.320 His days at Romo n L. Shoe was recruiting insane. Yes, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.840 I mean, you know, he committed. Poor guy he was 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.040 committed to maybe two or three schools. You know, he 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.760 started as a junior and he was Kansas and you 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.839 know Florida, and Florida had a coach and change. You know, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.000 Auburn quartered him hard and then you know, Ella Shoe 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.680 got their man in the end. We're talking to Jay Roth, 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.120 who coached Jamar Chase in high school. I know you 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.040 coached him great players there. He won multiple state titles. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.680 I think former Bengal Sephan Carter was one of your 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.000 former players. Where does Jamar rank among the great guys 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.200 that you coached. He's in the top two, top two 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.280 or three. We had Kevin Steltz was a Krik Stelts 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.360 was an All American Lashoo third round draft to get 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.800 the Bears. And you know, Jamar is going to go 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.640 down as the greatest, to be honest, because he's being 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.440 top five, top seven picks in the NFL draft. You know, Bulting, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.800 the Cough Award winner, So he's gonna be He'll be 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.360 up there. He'll be the greatest. I'll say that. I'm 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.480 sure you watched a lot of the Joe Burrow to 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.120 Jamar Chase connection a couple of years ago at LSU. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.240 What did you think when you watch those two play. Well, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.120 he had a guy at quarterback that knew how to 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.120 get rid of the football and knew he was thrown too. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.440 And I heard he's just a fantastic teammate and the 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.480 receivers just loved being in the game with him because 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.120 everybody had to pay attention. You didn't know who was 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.200 getting the ball. You know, Joe was going to throw 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.679 it to the person who was open as the person 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.480 and he just didn't have favorites. So watching them execute 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.320 and had that great year at LSU was a pleasure. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.800 Obviously a lot of Bengals fans are intrigued by the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.360 notion of reuniting those two at the NFL level. Did 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.840 you see any sort of special connection when you watch 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.200 them play. I just saw two guys that were NFL ready, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:12.719 to be honest with which I mean, that's what I saw, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.240 which is the offensive numbers they put up there year 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.160 at Las Shoe to Alabama's last team last year, which 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.400 is a phenomenal for a college football team, And that's 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:24.880 what I saw. Guys, You're just gonna be on the 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.080 same page at all times. How do you think Jamar 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.400 will adjust to NFL life, not only on the field, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.560 but off it. To be honest, I think the year 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.600 offer does just me my opinion. I think the year 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.360 off he took has prepared him. You know, he's been 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.160 away from home, he's been training as a professional. You know, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.120 he's been training for the NFL Draft. So I think 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.760 the year offers prepared him and giving him tom to 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.039 get rights to his NFL life he's about to take on. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.000 Do you have a favorite memory, a favorite game, anything 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.920 else that specifically comes to mind when you think of 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.800 the time you spend coaching him. Well, probably his last 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.040 year he played his senior year. It was a playoff 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.080 game against Bird High School Street Port Louisiana. He caught 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.520 four touchdown passes and he hurt his knee and we 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.640 went to the semifinals. He gotta beat fourteen seven, knowing 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.360 that if we probably would have had you more healthy, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.520 we would probably advanced the state championship in Hotel what 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.560 would have happen? But he was injured the fourth quarter. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.720 But we actually used him one I've ever used. We 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.520 put him at a wildcat. He scored a touchdown running 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.560 the ball. So it's like it took it took me 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.280 three years to realize, you know what, you better put 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:30.880 the ball in his guy's hand as much as you can. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.000 And in that game he got hurt and he wasn't 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.320 there for the state state semifinal game. So with the 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.040 trade that was made last week with the forty nine 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.120 ers moving up to the third pick in the draft, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.840 it looks like the top three picks are going to 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:50.680 be quarterbacks. Atlanta goes forth, the Bengals go fifth. If 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.000 Jamar Chase is there at number five, what would you 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.800 advise Cincinnati to do. I'd advise anybody to take him off. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.800 Talking about the number one draft, to really take a 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.080 first five days of quarterback, take Jamar. That's what I'm saying. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.280 From Rummel High School, it was on to LSU, where 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.480 Chase's two seasons in Baton Rouge were also Joe burrows 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.840 two seasons with the Tigers. As a true freshman, Jamar 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.120 had modest stats twenty three catches, including three for touchdowns, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.920 but as a sophomore he had one of the best 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.640 seasons in college football history with eighty four catches for 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.720 one thousand, seven hundred eighty yards. That's more than twenty 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.920 one yards per catch and Chase hauled in twenty of 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.200 Joe burrows sixty touchdown passes in the National Championship win 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.000 over Clemson. Jamar had nine grabs for two hundred twenty 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.760 one yards and a pair of touchdowns in what turned 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.400 out to be his final college game, as Chase elected 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.240 to opt out last season due to COVID nineteen and 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.439 began preparing for the NFL Draft. This week, I spoke 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.800 to the radio voice of the LSU Tigers, Chris Blair. Yes, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.600 our timing is perfect. We are speaking a few hours 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.080 after Jamar Chase wowed the scouts at his pro day today, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.200 particularly by running a four point three eight forty yard dash. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.920 What's the reaction in Baton Rouge to what Jamar did 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.760 this morning? Well, number one, nobody seems to be surprised, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.880 an at number two, it's just boil boy. What could 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.720 he have done had he decided to play for the 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.120 Bengal Tigers of LSU this past ball, of course, opting 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.160 out for his junior campaign. But you know, he's a 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.000 favorite son of Louisiana, and of course what he was 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.440 a part of in twenty nineteen will always etch his 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.480 name very close and very fun by Tiger fans so 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.600 and impressive showing. But again, I guess the first takeaway 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.199 is you're you're excited he comes out performs that way 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.079 in front of the scouts, and again I think the 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.960 biggest takeaway is nobody's surprised at all. They expected him 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.080 to show up and show up well, Chris, you were 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.559 behind the mic two years ago for Joe Burrows Heisman 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.719 Trophy season and that also saw Jamar Chase when the 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.800 Bullin Nikoff Award is the nation's best wide receiver. What's 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.640 top of mind when you think about that Burrow to 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.720 Chase connection a couple of years ago. Well, you know, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.319 it's interesting Dan that you know, you guys, we're getting 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.040 together and talking again this year. Last year prior to that, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.559 we were talking about Joe Burrow so far on one 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.800 for one with fingers Fan so good. But you can 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.920 feel that way when you're talking about Joe Burrow and 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.440 then following it up with Jamar Chase. Those two were 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.880 certainly lined up together. You know. It's one of the 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.400 things that Joe talked about going into that twenty nineteen 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.880 season was again arriving in twenty eighteen is the transfer 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.280 quarterback he went immediately to his skilled players on offense 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.760 along with his offensive line, and they had to bond. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.360 And the receiving group in twenty nineteen, which Jamar was 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.880 a part of, and Joe Burrow, they just seemed to 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.679 be almost using telepathy. They were always where they needed 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.560 to be ran Chris Browse. Jamar was certainly a very 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.520 good route runner, but when plays would break down and 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.760 Joe would be able to an extended play and move 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.640 the pocket, it was justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase who 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.880 who just knew where to be, knew where to find 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.720 the crease and and Joe knew where to go with 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.600 the football, and those guys more times than not we're there. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.800 So the relationship, I know a lot of people have 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.839 been having fun on social media, but Joe really pulling 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.160 to the Bengals to bring Jamar Chase. It's not only 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.079 because I think they're very good friends. I think it's 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.280 because he understands the type of weaponry that Jamar Chase 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.480 would have add, not only to Cincinnati but really to 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.080 any team. He's just that type of player and his 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.280 background and his work at the show, the numbers bear out. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.560 I mean, that's that is just who he is. We 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.120 are talking to the voice of the LSU Tigers, Chris Blair. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.439 Those numbers speak for themselves, but what can you tell 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.120 us about Jamar as a person, a teammate, a leader, etc. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:02.000 You know, it's it's interesting. Just a couple of weeks ago, obviously, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:06.160 the spring football getting underway here at LSU, the receiving 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.800 core room already talking about their plans for the summer 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.360 of ten thousand passes and Jamar Chase and that's one 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.679 of the traditions, very new traditions at LSU, and it 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.840 was created by Jamar Chase along with help from Terrace Marshall, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.920 who will also be going into the draft this year 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.480 at Justin Jefferson, who, by my humble opinion, was robbed 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.240 a Rookie of the Year from Minnesota last season. But 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.560 those three guys got together in the time they could 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.679 work just individually and got out the jugs gun and 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.760 they up the velocity on the footballs and they took 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.000 ten thousand passes over the course of the summer. And 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.679 you know, it was an attempt to make sure that 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.920 if the ball was within grass, they had a good 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.840 chance of hauling it in. And when you look at 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.400 how that translated number one to Joe Burrows accuracy number 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.120 two to the number of catches and touchdowns and yards 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.440 that Jamar Chase had along with Justin Jefferson and Terrorist Marshall, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.359 it kind of set the bar now for LSU receivers. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.439 So I think when you talk about looking at him 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.600 coming out of high school one of the top prospects 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.720 in the state of Louisiana a couple of years ago, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.000 rated a four star prospect, his work ethic took him 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.600 from being a four star, which again is very very 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.000 good to be in the top of the class and 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.080 a bullet Nikoff winner. So it's a lot in the 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.319 same conversation you and I had about Joe Burrow, it's 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.720 his approach to the game and the preparation of the 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:36.560 game has been pro l really since twenty eighteen, and 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.680 certainly he ramped that up in twenty nineteen. But you know, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.800 he kind of was the architect of the Summer of 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.600 ten thousand passes. And you know when LSU's coaching staff 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.000 and the other younger receivers who were coming up in 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.160 the program, they look at how that type of dedication, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.640 not with the coaches, not with the staff, all on 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.360 their own time led to a phenomenal year as far 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.480 as offense and receiving offense in twenty nine. So, you know, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.360 ten years from now, when they're talking about the Summer 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.320 of ten thousand passes, everybody can think Jamar Chase. He's 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.960 kind of the father of that. That is awesome, the 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.520 Summer of ten thousand passes. It's like Malcolm Gladwell's ten 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.560 thousand hours, but ten thousand passes instead. Chris, do you 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.920 have a favorite Jamar Chase moment and or story anything 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.280 along those lines. Yeah, I think it was. It was 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.000 coming off the Old Miss game. You know, several teams, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.680 you know, once we got about mid season in twenty nineteen, 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.280 they spent the entire week the opponent of that is 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.480 trying to figure out, Okay, which poison are we going 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.080 to take away? And more times than not, it was 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.440 Jamar Chase. And I had a chance to talk with 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.400 him do a couple of interviews throughout the season, and 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.400 I asked him following the Old Miss game where he 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.760 didn't have a great game, it's because they really put 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.600 bracket coverage on him for the entire game. They just said, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.320 we're going to take Jamar Chase away, and nobody was 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.960 more thrilled for the performance that both just Jefferson had 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.000 in single coverage. Also, Marshall had a pretty big game 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.840 in the slot, and then Clyde Edwards E. Lair was 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.400 able to really pick up some solid running yards that 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.560 really allowed LSU to come out on top in Oxford 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.200 on that Saturday. And when I was talking about Jamar 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.240 Chase and talking to him, I was asking him about 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.440 what it's like when you know a team's gonna try 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.280 to take you away, and he really didn't even go 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.800 into that. He talked about how everybody gets a chance 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.920 to eat on this LSU team and they're so talented 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.360 that he just sat back and laughed that they were 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.560 going to put all this emphasis on him and LSU 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.680 still was going to eat them up, rack up a 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.120 bunch of yards and go on to victory. And I'll 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.880 never forget after we were done, I told you, mar 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.400 I said, you know what, that's a very I'm impressed. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.200 That's a very mature way of looking at things, because 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.200 at that point of the season, he already was on 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.720 the bullet Nic coof list, and so was Justin Jefferson. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.280 So for him to be able to say, hey, we 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.360 knew we were gonna win because my guys are going 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.440 to pick up the slack and if they get bracket 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.880 coverage next week, then it's my time to step up. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.000 And he certainly did when that would have happened. So 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.040 I was just impressed with his maturity at that age 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.480 with so much of the spotlight on him. But yet 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.080 he knew this is a team effort, and we got 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.360 our eyes on going undefeated at winning the National Fitle, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.800 and anything less than that wasn't going to be satisfactories. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.880 We are talking about Jamar Chase with the Voice of 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.480 the Tigers, Chris Blair. This is a podcast about Chase, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.560 but let's talk briefly about Terris Marshall because he also 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.400 ran a four three eight forty this Pro Day on Wednesday. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.520 He's six three. How good of an NFL prospect? Is 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.760 Terris Marshall an excellent prospect? You know? In twenty nineteen 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.760 he was injured and missed I think three and a 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.200 half games to start the season, and he was well 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.600 on his way again. Jamar Chase would go on to 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.320 be second in sec receiving yards in a season at 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.440 second in touchdowns and at the beginning of the twenty 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.400 nineteen season, it looked like Terris Marshall he had not 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.640 scored a touchdown in twenty eight team. He got his 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.400 first career touchdown in the first game against Georgia Southern 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.119 in twenty nineteen, and then for the next two games 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.760 became a touchdown machine. And then when he returned and 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.399 was healthy again, he was certainly one of the focuses 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.960 of every defensive coordinator. Is okay, which guy we take away? 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.679 And what do we do if we have to believe 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.440 Terris Marshall on an island? And you know, it's interesting 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.119 in that twenty nineteen season, justin Jefferson was kind of 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.720 pegged as a slot receiver, which I remember talking to 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.720 Joe Brady who's now at the Panthers, talking to stevens Minger, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.240 who was the offensive coordinator at LSU, and they all 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.520 laughed and they said, we could put Marshall on the slot, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.040 we could put Chase in the slot, we could move 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.600 each of them to the outside. They just had that 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.679 type of skill set and Marshall with his size, And 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.440 again earlier today at Pro Day, just watching those numbers 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.320 from carry Vincent from Jamar Chase from Terris Marshall. All 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.640 of those sub four numbers was really incredible to see 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.119 when you look at the size and I go back 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.399 to the Summer of ten thousand passes because Marshall was 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.119 a part of that, and he's got such good hands. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.159 I have watched Jamar Chase and Terrace Marshall. Everybody in 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.639 the stadium knows they need two yards and they're going 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.320 to go for the quick slant and they'll have a 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.919 linebacker hanging off of him, a corner will try to 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.800 cheat up and jump the lane, and they have such 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.760 strong hands that if the pass is anywhere near their body, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.639 they pull it in and nobody can deflect it. And 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.840 that's to me what stands out about Marshall's He's got 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.720 good soft hands to make the catch, but he's got 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.080 strong hands once he has the grasp. And again, when 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.119 you're that big and you've got that type of speed, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.720 it's really going to allow teams to put him out 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.359 there and one on one coverage and stretch the field. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.480 So I think he's got an excellent toolkit to have 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:47.040 a successful career in the NFL. Chris and Cincinnati, we 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.800 were obviously heartbroken when Joe Burrow suffered his d injury 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.200 last season, I'm interested to hear what the reaction was 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.320 like in Baton Rouge. Oh, it was the same. It 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.400 was absolute heartbreak. I mean, you know, considering a kid 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.080 that grew up in Ohio and means so much to 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.040 his hometown, it is the same in the short period 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.480 he's been in Baton Rouge. That's the way everybody feels 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.840 about him here. I mean, I would love I'm sure 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.959 Cincinnati has the numbers on where their jerseys were sold 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.520 going into the twenty twenty season, and I guarantee, if 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.399 there's a giant spike when you look in Louisiana, were 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.200 Joe Burrow Cincinnati jerseys all over the place here? People 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.720 were watching. I dare I say, if the Saints and 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.480 the Bengals were playing at the same time on TV, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.919 you had you had a lot of homes that were 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.440 watching Cincinnati and they would catch up with New Orleans 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.720 later because they wanted to watch Joe Burrow play. So 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.760 when he went down, it was devastating. But I remember 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.520 talking to a number of people, in fact, my neighbors, 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.880 who said, you know, the work ethic he's shown, he's 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.560 gonna be back. He's gonna be stronger, he's gonna be better, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.359 he's gonna be smarter, having gone just through that short 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.919 stint of the NFL, and so to see those videos 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.600 of him getting back working out, had a chance to 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.920 see him in Indianapolis covering the NCAA tournament a week 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.440 before last. He looks good, he looks excited. So everybody's 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.400 going to be right back on the Bengals training again 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.720 when football comes around this vault. All right, final question 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.000 for the voice of the LSU Tigers, Chris Blair. If 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.040 you pulled Cincinnati Bengals fans right now on who the 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.480 team should select number five overall, you'd probably get a 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.919 pretty even split between Oregon offensive lineman Piney Sewell and 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.879 Jamar Chase. You are obviously not a neutral party in 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:37.520 this debate, But what do you think selecting Jamar and 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.800 reuniting him with Joe would do for the Bengals. Oh? 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.200 I think it would be a shot in the arm offensively. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.960 I mean, there's no question about it. I mean, knowing 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.720 enough about football, no expert by any stretch of the imagination. Also, 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:55.000 watching Joe, I can lean a little bit towards you know, 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.640 peeping up that offensive front to protect Joe back there 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.960 so he can do and use his skill set. But 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.080 without question, I think, you know, just in the same 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:08.200 way Justin Jefferson, you're talking about a young man who 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.920 maybe was a three star in a couple of evaluations 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.119