“We gotta step this shit up.” Ja’Marr Chase kicked the team in ass at halftime “I was pretty angry coming into halftime. I didn't like how we played. You know what I'm saying? We had 15 plays, maybe two or three possessions, and it didn't go our way at all. We had opportunities to get the ball out our hands. Joe was getting too much pressure, and I came in here screaming, saying ‘we got to somebody got to make a play for us, and somebody got to make a play.’ And I told our offense, we can't look at our defense the whole time. We gotta step this shit up and make something work. I've done it before, and I cried last time, but I didn't cry this time.”

Joe Burrow: “We know who we are. We know who we have to be, and we let we let our big time players go and make big time plays. That's what the NFL is all about. You can do all these different things, but at the end of the day, you just got to go make plays, got to execute what's called, and that's what we did.”