#teemarr

[realtapiocafan]

tee always putting on ja'marr's chain for him!

[cementcornfield]

People on Twitter are only just realising how close Ja’marr and Tee are outside of football 😂

but how much ARE they Realizing? because they're Insane.

i just conveniently wrote all these tags out in a different post but your ask arrived just in time so i'm gonna copy them here

#ja'marr really said ok tee we play on the same team that's awesome#you make my job easier and you make me laugh and you're so cute#come use my same physical therapist#fire your old agent and come work with mine#let's negotiate these new contracts together#i won't sign until you do. i'll hold the most notoriously stubborn FO hostage for you.#let's work out in miami together#i normally work out in texas but you want this trainer because he helps with the same injury issues you've struggled with#so i'll work out here with you instead#let's go buy a car together#wanna be in every single one of the vlogs for the youtube channel i'm starting??#how else can i connect every single part of our lives together until the end of time??#you can share joe too. he and i have a whole thing but i love you and so you get joint custody of my bf.#none of this means anything Weird btw.

[chasedeys]

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Knowing how hyper aware and caring Ja’Marr is he probably recommended her to Tee due to all the injuries how sweet and thoughtful of him . God this man shouldn’t have this hold on me

you are sooo rightttt arghrgrhhh ja’marr is so!!! health conscious!!! talked about it a bit here on how ja'marr takes note of people's health and injuries so seriously and pushes them to get healthy over playing through their injuries :(((

he cares soooo deeply for people he keeps close and tee had all those deep tissue injuries that kept him back from playing with ja’marr :(( he’s gotta be vibrating with the need to mother hen the ever living shit out of tee and mentions his usual clinic but like forcefully because he can’t be casual about it and tee's like ok sure and ja’marr drags him to her like a pup trying to keep their favorite toy safe asking their owner to stitch up their ripped stuffing 💔💔💔

like imagining ja'marr being all fussy and pushy about tee going to her, who he knows and trusts and has seen actual results from in himself so he feels comfortable and confident in actually getting tee to do a session with her, and tee being exasperated at this loud little shit who would not shut up about him getting better so he goes partly because he trusts ja'marr and that he has his best interest at heart and he knows that the rehab session would be good for him but also in other part just to shut and soothe ja'marr up lmao.

heres one of their sessions that's like my favorite because wow ja'marr really answered the door like that huh. like loooook at him arhrghrgrrhhrh..........legs swinging listening to her in the beginning </3 and then fighting with her on whose nails are longer boy enough 😭 (insane ass size difference btw begging you all to pause at 1:19)

AND WOW OKAY SO i assumed this before but like wasn't 100% sure but -> pretty sure this is a home visit right and that background's literally where tee did his session SO. what I'm saying is. tee did his session at ja'marr's place. at the same day probably so when one was being metaphorically smushed to pieces and stabbed with tiny little needles the other was sitting on the couch next to them probably yapping endlessly trying to make them laugh and getting yelled at by dr. ashley to keep their mouth shut.

just. ja'marr had added tee to his usual sessions </3 probably already had a usual date and time set up for himself for his weekly (?) resets and asked if she could add tee to her schedule so he can do his own rehab session and that kind of fucks me up deep inside because what do you mean he made tee do his usual rehab with him so tee would be healthier....what do you mean..........what do you meannnnnnn

here's another ja'marr session where he did the entire thing in his beanie btw <3 miss him in braids in a beanie 😔

[joeyburrrow]

teemarr presser in 10 minutes life is truly worth living

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Reblog this with your star sign, favorite weather, and a newly discovered song

[realtapiocafan]

behind the scenes:

the picture:

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their silly little plan that they probably hatched at 2AM at night WORKED!!!

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ja'marr: oh i like that... show it to tee

tee: that's smooth. i like it

ja'marr: ok! tee likes it, i'm good

[realtapiocafan]

same flight 😭

PACKAGE DEAL

[realtapiocafan]

this is so far beyond my wildest dreams omfg

like even in my most delusional moments when i was dreaming of ja'marr and tee staying, i always thought they would be announced separately. let everyone have their own day and all that shit.

but they didn't do that! their deals were announced at the same time! they planned it that way! they're gonna have a press conference together, i really can't believe it.

[realtapiocafan]

Ja'Marr Chase: "This was our vision"

Acho: I think I saw this picture of you with Ja'Marr Chase to your right, Tee Higgins to your left. That'll be camera left and camera right, but this is all of you quite literally as you're breaking the story, if i'm not mistaken.

Schultz: It was. And it was something that came together, I think, you know, pretty quickly. You know, if you go back to the last week and so -and really the last year, there has been a lot of negotiations between Ja'Marr Chase, his agent, and the Bengals. And what happened -there's a lot of context here, but what happened was the plan was always to get both of them done together. And when Tee Higgins made the switch to Ja'Marr's agent, Rocky Arceneux of Alliance Sports, uh, the same agent told them, "Look I'm not going to do one or the other. It's going to be both together". And obviously, I think Joe Burrow goin on Radio Road and saying "I need all my guys back, Ja'Marr and Tee especially" is essential. The Bengals broke a lot of precedent, Acho, because if you look at the structure of the deals, and I really want to focus on that -it's not something they've ever done, other than Joe Burrow. In other words, they don't guarantee the second year and beyond. In this case, they did, not only with Ja'Marr but Tee.

Question for you: Tee Higgins obviously viewed by many, at least by some, as a number one WR. But he stays in Cincinnati, as a number two WR. Now yes he did take number two top paid WR money. But Schultz, he could've gotten number one WR money. Based on everything you know about Tee Higgins, obviously you know him personally, why did Tee Higgins take a discount?

Schultz: Well, a couple things. One, and I didn't even know this. And he told me last night. He said "Jordan, the Bengals were the team I grew up rooting for" so I think there was some context that even I wasn't even aware of. The other part is- the Bengals are not only making him the #1 paid number two WR, Acho, he's also a top five paid receiver. And there's a lot of incentives. So he has guarantees over thirty but he's getting a lot of incentives as well, based on performance and play that I think he certainly believes he'll hit. So you have that: He wanted to be a Bengal. Tee Higgins wanted to run it back with Ja'Marr Chase and Joe Burrow. And if you go back to his third year, this has been going on now for the past several years. Obviously getting tagged, last year's request -he wanted to be here, he felt like he had something special. And then Ja'Marr, to that point, told me last night, "This was our vision. We wanted to make this special, together. It wasn't one or the other." And so I think in Tee's case, he felt a connection to the franchise, to the city, and obviously to Ja'Marr and Joe.

[realtapiocafan]

🥺🥺🥺 these are MY GUYS

[realtapiocafan]

sports articles can be so romantic sometimes

Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, at the end of the day, are friends who want to stay together. Does it need to be any more complicated than that? Obviously winning is important. Both of them clearly want that after coming so close to hoisting a Lombardi three years ago. Getting paid their worth matters too. It's what ultimately drives most decisions for players in the league. When you can accomplish both of that together, as genuine friends, why wouldn't you? I know receivers are often typecasted as divas. The examples are in no short supply. For anyone who doesn't understand why the Bengals are investing so much of their money into both of these guys at the same time, consider the fact that it's what both of them wanted. Demanded, even.   There's a level of respect here that's objectively uncommon. To everyone, Chase is the guy of the duo. The numbers speak for themselves in that regard. He's never been short on confidence as someone who set out to break every Cincinnati record the night he was drafted. That same guy wouldn't allow Higgins to be labeled as his No. 2.  "1A." This is as rare as it gets. Clearly, the NFL did not expect the Bengals to actually go through with this. You never see two players of this caliber sign contracts of this magnitude together, pretty much simultaneously. You never hear about that kind of ultimatum in negotiations.  You've never seen a duo quite like Chase and Higgins. No one has. Other teams have put together and paid high-caliber receiver tandems. The Miami Dolphins traded for and paid Tyreek Hill a year after drafting Jaylen Waddle. The Philadelphia Eagles did the same with A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith. The combination of cheap rookie and expensive veteran for each eventually turned into two expensive veterans. No one bothered to think it was preposterous. But when the Bengals draft and develop their duo organically and decide to pay both of them at once, everyone loses their minds. It's hard to grasp why that is, especially when you understand why both players pushed for it in the first place. We may not see another team duplicate this strategy. I mean, it's unlikely any team can draft two receivers as good as Higgins and Chase in back-to-back years anyways, but the decision to pay them both at the same time may not even be possible. Maybe it can only happen if both players will it to existence. Maybe it takes the bond that Chase and Higgins share; a bond that doesn't quite exist anywhere else.

[realtapiocafan]

jjmarr and teemarr - in the words of ja'marr himself

y'all- ja'marr TRIED to make his relationship with tee like the one he had with justin. like you will not understand how utterly insane this made me feel. my mouth dropped when i read this shit. i originally put my Thoughts in an ask bc i was trying to finish it, but i had More thoughts. so.

ok, if you hadn't heard of ja'marr's recruitment, it's freaking wild (i had no clue ja'marr had a HOLE in his heart wtf) (also it makes my heart ache to hear ja'marr described as quiet and shy)

but to put the recruitment story short, ja'marr was the Guy that everyone wanted. florida, georgia, auburn, lsu -all of these schools were basically chasing this four star recruit down. he was that good and he knew it.

in the end, he goes to lsu and well. like i just said, ja'marr was the Star at high school, the Star that all the colleges wanted.

i just. i don't think he ever had someone on his level, you know? not until he meets justin at lsu. justin was probably the first wide receiver around ja'marr that could actually keep up with him. the first person who was just as good as ja'marr is, if not better.

this is ja'marr's first friendship with another elite wide receiver! and god, all they did at lsu was compete. there's entire articles about how justin and ja'marr used to bet on touchdowns and yards and basically everything. even with terrance marshall, ja'marr was still competing. that was their whole thing, their relationship. always seeing who's better, always pushing each other to be better.

above, i said baby ja'marr was described as soft-spoken (🥺) and yeah. it tracks. if you watch his interviews from college, he's quieter than he is now, still a little unsure of himself . i'll always think about that quote, that ja'marr had to start speaking up and demanding the ball because justin was. and once he started getting the ball, he showed everyone (including himself) what he was capable of. the confidence we see today? i think that's mostly bc of justin.

anyways when ja'marr got to cincy, it does make sense that he would try to go back to what he knew best, because again. jjmarr was probably ja'marr's first relationship with someone equal to him.

it just. it speaks volumes about ja'marr and justin's relationship. it says so much about how important justin was to a rookie ja'marr, that he was basically using that relationship as a freaking template. i'll always think about the effect covid had on ja'marr... the impact it had on his family... to be forced to isolate when he's basically been on a team all his life... to sit out the season and feel like he's failing his team... to only helplessly watch, all alone, as justin and joe ripped up the league...

(how much did that isolation affect ja'marr god)

justin was the first person that was on ja'marr's level, and he must've thought everyone would be like that. he must've thought that everyone who could compete with him, would want to compete.

so imagine a second-year tee in training camp, being befuddled and helplessly amused by this hyper and small rookie who keeps on following him around and trying to bait tee into betting on touchdowns, like wtf is the kid going on about 😭

then ja'marr has to slowly learn that. oh. it doesn't have to be about competing. not with tee. he doesn't need to prove he's the best with tee. he can just breathe. just exist.

it was important for high schooler ja'marr to have justin to pull him out of his shell, to give him confidence in himself, but it was equally important for rookie ja'marr (who just spent a year in quarantine and was suddenly tossed into the nfl) to have a safe space.

like, gentle reminder that ja'marr was being absolutely ripped apart in his rookie preseason (sooo unfair of the media btw he was a baby! a rookie! 😭😭😭). and everyone always remembers joe's press conference, but no one ever mentions that TEE made his own little protective comment:

imagine second year tee in preseason, who's walking down the hallway and hears sniffles from a random closet and opens it to a sobbing ja'marr reading mean stuff on the internet. and tee instantly realizes what's going on and ignores ja'marr's wrecked voice asking him to go away and just. sinks down and engulfs ja'marr in his arms and whispers that "it's all bullshit", "those idiots know nothing", "you're not a waste of a pick you're the best decision this organization has ever made".

and ja'marr just... folds into tee, closes his eyes and feels utterly safe.

(and when ja'marr proves everyone wrong, tee remembers that moment. remembers all the words that were said about ja'marr. sweet, sensitive ja'marr who cried because of those words. and he presses send on the tweet. the next practice, ja'marr is attached to the hip to tee and no one but joe realizes why. joe stays quiet but is pleased as a clam that his star receivers are not just getting along, but defending each other.)

i said teemarr is about comfort and i stand by it.

[realtapiocafan]

https://www.tumblr.com/realtapiocafan/772608693856583680/jjmarr

Ever wondered why he holds Tee so near and close his heart ?? This is why and the dynamics being completely different where Ja’Marr basically says he’s more relaxed and unguarded because, it’s not a competition with Tee 😭🥹

!!! I have. so many thoughts regarding justin and tee and their different relationships with ja'marr. i wrote a lotttt

ok, ja'marr and justin reallly were attached at the damn hip. we all talk about the handshake and the dances and shit, but like. they used to share airpods. airpods, for fuck's sake. and the slushie/icee thing? 😭 how many of us used to have dumb arguments like that with our friends? it's those little things that really define jjmarr for me, the things that you'd only do with someone you love.

all of that is beautiful on its own, but it makes the ending hurt even more, doesn't it? you used to talk everyday and do everything together, now you need to schedule around practices and time zones and it's so much work. and then you get home and you're tired and before you know it, you haven't talked to them in weeks.

ok, pardon me for going on a side rant here, but i did try to use the twitter interactions as like a microcosm of the entire jjmarr relationship, to show how a friendship that close can fade over time.

the first three tweets (bantering about practice, making fun of justin's first down celebration, sharing airpods) are all in the lsu era (2018-2019) when they were still doing dumb shit in practice and hanging out and coming up with their silly celebrations

the next three (justin rolling his eyes at ja'marr flipping, ja'marr teasing justin's attempt to get into the nba, reminiscing about what they used to do in practice) is set in 2020-21 (when justin was in the nfl and ja'marr was not). and you can see! they're STILL bantering. still making fun of each other with delight! but it's about what they used to do, not what they're doing now then.

then the last time ja'marr mentioned justin on twitter, was last year (before justin signed his extension and everyone thought he might go to a diff team). justin never responded (on twitter, at least.) again ja'marr's said a few times that justin's the one that doesn't answer his texts. while i take his words with a grain of salt, all of the throwback photos and birthday posts are from ja'marr. i catch myself thinking about justin's most toxic trait being communication all the time.

now, do i think justin is at fault for the 'breakup'? no, i really don't think so. unreliable narration aside, they live in different states, different timezones. they have different schedules, different practices. justin has a c, ja'marr doesn't (yet). justin is like, the sole Face of The Franchise, whereas ja'marr has joe to carry the burden with him. my point is: justin has a different life and different responsibilities and it's understandable that a friendship would fade under those circumstances. it's life. it happens.

but for ja'marr... you can know that it's perfectly natural for friendships to fade. you can know that it's not anyone's fault. you can know that's just how life goes. but it still hurts, because of what you shared together. the friendship was still there! the memories still exist! the love didn't last, but that doesn't mean that it didn't matter. it mattered! it mattered a lot!

justin changed ja'marr (and ja'marr changed justin!) like all friendships do and especially with college friendships. in college, we still have no idea what we're going to do, who we are, and that's fine, because that's what college is for. it's just... when you don't know who you are, how are you supposed to tell where you end and where your friend begins? (there's a reason why college friendships can sometimes seem almost codependent and why so many fade out. when you grow that close to someone, the only direction left is away.)

so, getting back to tee, anon. yes, i do think the past jjmarr weighs deeply in ja'marr's mind with the current tee situation. he's clinging onto tee with everything he has, because he already knows how easily his best friend can slowly slip out of his life. like arguably justin and ja'marr were just as close, if not closer, than he is to tee rn (ARGUABLY). and if justin can drift away from him... in ja'marr's experience with justin, once you're on different teams, it'll never be the same. it'll never be what it once was. so if it were up to him, he won't let tee go on a different team, won't let tee become a stranger the way justin has.

then the competitive aspect bc i DO also have lots of thoughts of that. above, i said justin changed ja'marr. if you look at videos and even tweets of ja'marr before college, it's like a different person. he just seems so much more shy and quiet in those old videos 🥺! a baby! i don't know exactly how to describe it, but he's definitely not confident the way he is now. i do think justin was one of the main reasons why this is the version of ja'marr that exists. there's a quote somewhere, that ja'marr had to speak up and demand the ball because justin was. because justin was there, ja'marr had to learn to speak up for himself and come out of his shell.

it's always a competition with justin and ja'marr, that's part of their relationship. maybe they'll forget about the slushies/icees, about the airpods, but that competitiveness will always be there, pushing each other to new heights. now, ja'marr knows himself. he knows the heights he's capable of reaching, and you can see that. would he be the same without that competitive aspect in his relationship with justin? i don't know. i don't think so.

but with tee, as much as i've compared jjmarr to teemarr in this post, they're two entirely different relationships. tee... ugh, how do i phrase this? tee's... tee's gentler than either justin or ja'marr. whereas justin's reaction to ja'marr leading in triple crown stats earlier this year was "don't count me out", tee's was "i'll get to tell my kids i played with a triple crown wr". justin pushes ja'marr. tee supports ja'marr. they both affect ja'marr, help him get better just in different ways.

jjmarr hits different for me, bc i just love that drifting-apart angst, but really, teemarr is so so very special. in lsu, justin helped bring ja'marr out of his shell. in cincy, i consider tee to be the safe place for ja'marr, away from all the cameras and reporters. it has to be a lot -the social media trolls, the talk show bs, even the expectations of the fans. i have thoughts of an overwhelmed rookie ja'marr being found and comforted by tee. because having that one person that you can lean on, that one person who gives you peace... that makes a world of a difference.

[realtapiocafan]

tumblr's being mean and not allowing me to post any more videos (even though i'm not anywhere close to the twenty video limits!) but i couldn't just let this final moment fly by.

too cute!