Didn't look like Bengals 'wanted it,' Chase says

DENVER -- Everything looked retired of sorts for the Cincinnati Bengals successful yet different blowout loss.

The discourtesy ne'er got rolling. Penalties abounded. And the defence allowed respective large plays successful a 28-3 defeat to the Denver Broncos connected Monday night.

According to Bengals prima wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase, determination besides appeared to beryllium immoderate cardinal intangibles that were lacking arsenic well.

"(The) urgency is there, man," Chase said aft the game. "We gotta privation it. At the extremity of the day, we gotta privation it. Today, it didn't look similar we wanted it."

When asked to expound connected that, Chase said "just giving up" earlier diving into immoderate of the particulars of a resounding defeat.

Cincinnati was called for 11 penalties for 65 yards, numbers that excluded a fewer that were declined by the Broncos. Chase cited the galore stalled drives that ended quickly. After a tract extremity connected the game's opening thrust that gave the Bengals a 3-0 lead, Cincinnati punted connected its last 8 possessions. All of them ended connected its fractional of the Kentucky Bluegrass astatine Empower Field astatine Mile High Stadium.

The Bengals finished with 159 violative yards. According to ESPN Research, it's the archetypal clip since the 2009 Oakland Raiders that a squad has had 200 oregon less violative yards successful 3 of its archetypal 4 games.

The astir telling country of the crippled occurred successful the 2nd fractional aft a stalled Bengals possession. Chase and Bengals manager Zac Taylor had an extended enactment connected the borderline of the sideline earlier Chase yet made his mode to his spot connected the bench.

"We were conscionable talking astir the possession," Chase said. "We were conscionable talking astir what plays we tin tally and however tin we onslaught definite coverages and get our playmakers the ball."

The All-Pro receiver said helium felt his engagement successful the crippled felt somewhat normal. He was targeted 8 times. However, helium finished with 5 catches for conscionable 23 yards. According to ESPN Research, conscionable 1 of those targets was much than 10 yards downfield. When asked for his characterization of the sideline exchange, Taylor said it stemmed from a tendency for Chase to bash thing successful his powerfulness to assistance the Bengals win.

"It comes crossed arsenic emotional, but that's conscionable a skipper that works his process off," Taylor said. "All helium wants to bash is triumph the game. All helium wants to bash is impact the game. Often times, helium feels like, 'If I person the shot successful my hand, I tin bash that.' And I don't disagree with him"

Bengals backmost Jake Browning, who was 14-of-25 passing for 125 yards, said immoderate deficiency of tendency that Chase felt wasn't due to the fact that of a deficiency of effort.

"I don't question anybody's effort successful the locker room," said Browning, who was making his 2nd commencement successful spot of Joe Burrow, who is connected injured reserve with a toed injury. "I don't deliberation that's however everything goes for the Bengals."

However, Browning did concede that aft different unsmooth violative showing, each subordinate indispensable measure wherever they are responsible. One week aft the Bengals suffered a 48-10-point nonaccomplishment to the Minnesota Vikings, the astir lopsided nonaccomplishment successful franchise history, Cincinnati failed to people a touchdown. The negative-63 combined constituent differential betwixt some games besides marks the worst successful a two-game agelong since the Bengals were founded successful 1968, per ESPN Research.

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