After the misplaced season that was their 2023 marketing campaign, the Cincinnati Bengals nonetheless have some sticky enterprise to resolve earlier than they’ll actually contend for the Tremendous Bowl championship.
Star broad receiver Ja’Marr Chase has been in search of a profitable contract extension, and at instances, he hasn’t been current at observe in consequence.
However he returned to the sphere on Wednesday for the Bengals’ first official observe of the 2024 season, and quarterback Joe Burrow says Chase seems to be like he’s prepared for Week 1, per Paul Dehner Jr.
Joe Burrow on Chase being doubtlessly in a position to play Sunday bodily: “He’s ready to go. Saw him out there today, he looks fast, strong like he always does. Confident if he does go out there Sunday he will be the Ja’Marr we all know.”
— Paul Dehner Jr. (@pauldehnerjr) September 4, 2024
The Bengals will face the rebuilding New England Patriots on Sunday to kick off their season, and whereas one might assume will probably be an computerized win for them, they’ll want Chase out on the sphere in an effort to guarantee victory.
Extra importantly, they should be out on the sphere collectively as one unit in an effort to construct the kind of habits that might end in successful all of it.
Over the previous couple of years, the Bengals have been perennial contenders when wholesome, however they haven’t gone all the way in which — they misplaced within the Tremendous Bowl in the course of the 2021 season and fell within the AFC Championship Sport the next yr.
As a franchise, they’ve by no means received the Vince Lombardi Trophy, as they’ve fallen brief in all three of their journeys to the large sport.
However for this season, they need to have at the very least a puncher’s likelihood at getting there, as Burrow stays an elite quarterback and Chase is likely one of the sport’s higher wideouts.
General, they’ve a younger staff, and in the event that they preserve collectively their core, they may have a lot extra probabilities to win all of it within the years to come back.
