Cincinnati Bengals WR Ja’Marr Chase was asked what it meant to play the Browns in Cleveland last week. A major divisional opponent and cross-state rival, the young receiver didn’t seem to think it made much of a difference who he was playing or where—even referring to them as the Elves, a reference to an old logo they brought out of storage this season.
Things didn’t work out too well, as the Browns beat down the Bengals pretty good. “Cleveland is Cleveland”, Chase said, and the Browns used that as fuel in much the same way they did when former Pittsburgh Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster said that “the Browns is the Browns”.