Baltimore Ravens cornerback and first-team Pro Bowler Marlon Humphrey wasn't playing in last night's AFC Championship Game, but that didn't stop him from taking a shot at the defeated Buffalo Bills.
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After the Bills' narrow 32-29 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, Humphrey posted on X "after the pro bowl maybe we can all go enjoy Cancun❤️"
While that may sound actually kind of sweet at first glance, there is (naturally) a lot more context to the situation.
After the Bills defeated the Ravens in the AFC Divisional Round, they couldn't resist throwing some shade at the Ravens' nine Pro Bowl selections.
Despite squeaking out a narrow 27-25 win, an unnamed Buffalo player apparently fired off the comment, "Now those nine Pro Bowlers can go to the Pro Bowl."
Clearly, Humphrey was rankled.
The Ravens had played a sloppy game by their standards—three turnovers, a missed two-point conversion, and some key mistakes. But the sting of the loss was compounded when Buffalo, fresh off the victory, took shots they couldn't back up.
A week later, the Bills' own postseason dreams were dashed once again, this time by the Chiefs, who handed Buffalo its fourth straight postseason loss to Patrick Mahomes and co.
As Josh Allen's final fourth-down pass fell incomplete in yet another heartbreak, Marlon Humphrey of the Ravens wasted no time responding.
It was a brutal burn, especially coming from someone who, just days earlier, had been urging the Bills to defeat the Chiefs in order to stop Mahomes from making history with a third straight Super Bowl.
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
— marlonhumphrey.eth (@marlon_humphrey) January 21, 2025But as the Bills fell short once again, those earlier comments seemed pretty hollow, and Humphrey's tweet landed with perfect timing. He had the perfect vantage point from where he stood: Baltimore, too, was out of the running, but they didn't have to deal with the sting of missing the Super Bowl after throwing trash talk at a team they beat barely a week ago.
Humphrey had his own issues to deal with, too. After his hit on Allen just before halftime in the Buffalo game, the NFL fined him $45,020 for unnecessary roughness.
The fine came after a controversial helmet-to-helmet hit on Allen that wasn't called during the game, and it marked his second fine for a similar infraction this season.
The penalty was a reminder that the Ravens had issues to clean up, especially on the discipline front, as they committed five penalties for 43 yards, compared to the Bills' single penalty for 10 yards.
On top of that, Humphrey's contract situation loomed large. With two years left but no guaranteed money remaining, questions about his future in Baltimore started to surface.
After the loss to the Bills, he expressed uncertainty about his place with the team, acknowledging that in the NFL, "Some guys will stay, some guys will leave."
For the Ravens, the upcoming offseason would be all about regrouping, learning from the disappointments, and finding a way to turn their Pro Bowl talent into a Super Bowl-caliber team.
Lamar Jackson is poised to make another MVP run, Derrick Henry continues to be a dominant force, and Humphrey, elite cornerback and now an elite troll, will likely remain an important part of the squad—but only time will tell how much longer he'll wear purple.
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