Ja’Marr Chases doesn’t regret being targeted on the Bengals’ botched two-point play

Ja’Marr Chase wanted the ball one more time.

The Bengals’ receiver lamented that quarterback Joe Burrow didn’t see his way on the failed two-point conversion that nearly sealed the 35-34 loss to the Ravens on “Thursday Night Football.”

Chase’s third touchdown of his 11-catch, 264-yard night had brought Cincinnati within a point before Burrow threw an incomplete pass to backup tight end Tanner Hudson on the two-point call.

“Yeah, I always feel like as a receiver you should have the ball, yeah, but sometimes Joe doesn’t see it, you know?” Chase said after the Bengals fell to 4-6.

Going for Chase seemed like it would have been a smart plan with the game on the line, as the Ravens couldn’t stop him during the exciting AFC North showdown.

He consistently found open spaces in the Ravens’ porous defense, scoring from 67, 70 and five yards during one of the best wide receiver fantasy football performances in NFL history.

Chase’s 457 yards against the Ravens in two games this season — both Baltimore wins — most marks against one team in NFL historyaccording to Pro Football Talk.

For the two-point conversion, the Bengals lined up Chase on the far left, and the Ravens took a chance, offering only single coverage.

Baltimore rushed five apiece, while the double put the tight ends in Hudson and Mike Gesicki and single-cover Chase and Andrei Iosivas.

Chase started to the outside before crossing towards the middle, but Burrow seemingly never saw his way before firing towards Hudson. The high pass hit Hudson’s fingertips before falling to the ground.

Burrow explained that the play did not call for the ball to go to Chase.

“I just kind of sailed it,” Burrow said of his throw. “(Chase) was on the backside, I didn’t get to him. I read my first time.”

Chase definitely said he was open to the play.

“I’m always open,” he noted.

The Bengals now find themselves in a tough situation at two games under .500 and have now lost the tiebreaker to the Ravens.

Cincinnati has six games remaining against teams hoping to make the playoffs — should Dallas still be considered in the mix — including two against the division-leading Steelers.

Making it even more frustrating for the Bengals is that they are potentially wasting big production from their LSU quarterback-receiver duo, as was evident Thursday night.

“It’s crazy to say that,” Chase said. “I would never in a million years expect that I would play this well and he plays this well and we still have a record like this.”