Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase sparked some imaginary beef with the Cleveland Browns this week ahead of the first 2023 Battle of Ohio.
Chase jokingly said “Cleveland is Cleveland” while dismissing the matchup with the Browns, even going so far as to call the team’s mascot an elf.
Buy Bengals TicketsChase, who has 100 percent admitted he likes to mess around like this through the media, didn’t exactly get under the skin of Browns superstar defensive end Myles Garrett.
“See now that was disrespectful,” Garrett said, according to Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com. “He didn’t have to go there. The elves was probably … he knew better. We might have to have a discussion before or after the game, maybe during if I see him. But yeah the elves is a little bit too far.”
Garrett was having some fun with it and Grant Delpit, a teammate of Chase’s at LSU, knows what’s up when it comes to Chase.
“He’s going to mess with you, but he backs it up on the field,” Delpit said. “So if we’re going to talk back, we need to back it up too. It’s going to be a battle. It’s going to be a war.”
As we pointed out earlier this week, this is the same funny stuff Chase did with the Chiefs this offseason with the “Pat Who?” stuff that stirred up a bunch of drama.
Unlike Chiefs players though, the Browns aren’t biting on the back-and-forth and want to settle it on the field.
#Browns Myles Garrett acknowledges #Bengals Ja’Marr Chase went too far with the “elves” thing. Says he might have to talk to him before or after the game pic.twitter.com/LRlpWFsu5k
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) September 8, 2023
