Joe Burrow Reveals Ja’Marr Chase’s Route On Last Play Of Super Bowl LVI Was Not Original Play Call

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  • After taking the offseason to digest the Super Bowl loss, the Bengals got back to work on Tuesday.
  • Once the first day of camp finished, Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase spoke to the media and revealed a new piece of information about the final play of Super Bowl LVI.
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Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals came seconds away from winning Super Bowl LVI. If the second-year quarterback had just a few more seconds on the last play of the game, he might have delivered a moment for the ages.

Following Cooper Kupp’s touchdown that put the Rams up three with less than two minutes left in the game, Burrow and the Bengals offense took over. They had a chance to drive down the field and either tie the game with a field goal or score a walk-off touchdown to win.

Neither ended up coming to fruition. On 4th-and-1 at midfield, Aaron Donald came flying around the edge, sacked Burrow and sealed the win for Los Angeles.

However, if the offensive line had been able to fend off Donald for just a few more seconds, Burrow had Ja’Marr Chase wide open. He would have scored and won the game.

On the play, Chase swept past Jalen Ramsey down the sideline and left him in the dust.

“I did my normal routine,” Chase said in a post-practice interview on Tuesday. “Try to stack the DB (so the cornerback trailed him) and hand play. Try to stack him as late as possible … I took what he gave me and ran with it.”

As it would turn out, it was not the original plan for Ja’Marr Chase to run a go-route on the Bengals’ last play of Super Bowl LVI. It was Joe Burrow’s call.

While discussing the loss with Cincinnati’s media after camp on Tuesday, Burrow revealed for the first time that he was behind the route that could have won his team the game if he had more time in the pocket.

“I checked to that go route. I was anticipating throwing it and just didn’t quite have the time,” Burrow said. “Like I said, we’ve put that behind us. We lost. We had a great year. We’re going forward.”

After the loss, the former LSU national champions didn’t waste anytime looking ahead to 2022. Burrow took off just a week.

“I’m not the type that sits around and gets fat,” he said.

As for Chase, who is coming off of the greatest season by a rookie wide receiver in NFL history, he plans to catch 10,000 passes this offseason.

“This year, what I’ve been working on the most is just staying low on my releases,” he said. “And trying to overemphasize the head fakes with the shoulders and eyes and stuff like that so they don’t jump all over my body.”

Both guys were back on the field as the Bengals opened training camp on Tuesday and will hope to repeat the success they had in 2021. This time, they hope to have just a few more seconds on the final play of the Super Bowl.