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Why the Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey is rooting for Bills just days after losing to Buffalo

The Baltimore Ravens were knocked out of the playoffs in Orchard Park on Sunday, but now they cornerback Marlon Humphrey is rooting for the Bills.

The Baltimore Ravens were knocked out of the playoffs in Orchard Park on Sunday, but now they cornerback Marlon Humphrey is rooting for the Bills.
TIMOTHY T LUDWIGAFP

Anyone but them. It might be the summed up version, but that was basically the message that Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey posted on social media Tuesday night when referring to the Kansas City Chiefs bid for a three-peat.

Humphrey rooting for former enemy

The Ravens were knocked out of the playoffs by the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night, and once again fell short of their Super Bowl expectations. This was the supposed to be the season that the Ravens challenged the Chiefs long lasting dominance over the AFC, but it wasn’t to be as Mark Andrews dropped a two point conversion pass that would have tied the game up with under 2:00 to go in the 4th quarter from Orchard Park.

Now Marlon Humphrey is cheering for the team that just knocked them out of the playoffs. Really, he is rooting for any team left in the playoffs to win the Super Bowl except the Kansas City Chiefs. The four time Pro Bowler is sick of seeing the Chiefs add to their dynasty, and he went to X to vent his frustrations and sow his support to the other three teams remaining in the playoffs.

“I have no reason of saying this other than being a hater. The Bills or whatever NFC team gotta beat the Chiefs. We can’t let them keep getting away with this,” Said Humphrey on Tuesday night.

Something more behind motives

The whole “We can’t let them keep getting away with this” line is up for debate on what he actually meant. Did he mean they can’t keep winning these tight games late in the fourth quarter, or was that meant to be a shot at the refs?

There are more than a few people around the league that think the Chiefs have been the beneficiaries of some favorable calls from the refs over the last few years. Track back to the Super Bowl two years ago, when a controversial holding flag was thrown against the Philadelphia Eagles essentially ending the game late in the fourth quarter.

Just this past weekend the Houston Texans linebacker Will Anderson told interviewers after the game that he and his team knew it would be “us vs. the refs” in Arrowhead on Saturday afternoon. Anderson was flagged for helmet to helmet contact on Patrick Mahomes early in the first half and an unnecessary roughness penalty in the 4th quarter led to a Chiefs touchdown drive that allowed KC to extend the lead to 20-12.

The Chiefs have a massive AFC Championship matchup with te Bills this weekend, and if they get through that they will be a win away from being the first team in NFL history to win the three-peat, and will be in the conversation for greatest team of all time should they win their fourth Super Bowl in six years.

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