Regarding Super Bowl LVIII, Marlon Humphrey said, “I don’t want anybody to win.”
The Baltimore Ravens had the best record in the NFL during the regular season at 13-4. However, the Ravens were just one win away from winning the Super Bowl.
After defeating Baltimore 17-10 in the AFC Championship Game on January 28, the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time.
One of the Ravens’ 13 regular-season victories came on December 25 against San Francisco, 33-19.
During an appearance on the “RG3 and the Ones” podcast, Baltimore cornerback Marlon Humphrey stated of Super Bowl LVIII, “Ever since we lost to the Chiefs, I have been on a big-time I don’t want anybody to win.” “A few days ago, I watched the Pro Bowl, and I recall thinking, ‘I hope not for the AFC to win.'” I genuinely said to Kyle Hamilton, the Ravens safety, “I hope you lose today.” “I wanted you to lose today just so you would still feel hurt,” I murmured. I wanted the hurt to linger in you.
“When I saw the 49ers-Lions (in the NFC Championship Game), I was happy the 49ers won because I didn’t feel that the Lions could beat the Chiefs. I just believed that the 49ers were a better fit for the Chiefs because of their defence, discipline, and overall game.
As a result, my full prejudice and minor animosity towards everyone can only lead me to believe that the 49ers should win the Super Bowl and that the whole AFC should fall short. Due to my predisposition and a little hatred for everyone who wins in the AFC, I don’t want a single winner. Go 49ers.
However, the former All-American from Alabama predicted that Kansas City will be difficult to defeat in the NFL championship game of 2023 because of quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce.
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Humphrey said, “I don’t even know how to stop those two together.” “Let me simply tell you the truth. There doesn’t seem to be a strategy to break up the connection with those guys. All you have to do is attempt to keep that to a minimum and focus on getting by.
Not that they truly need it, but they no longer have Tyreek Hill as they had. However, you can man-to-man them up a little better than most people believe with everyone else. With man-to-man, it’s all about covering Kelce, who is perhaps the best tight end of all time. That’s where things get complicated. Furthermore, such a person has no special sauce. He is exceptional for a valid cause.
Humphrey stated that for Kansas City to defeat San Francisco, they must be able to put wide receiver Deebo Samuel and other 49ers playmakers on the ground.
“I think the biggest way to stop them is, as simple as it sounds, tackle,” Humphrey said. “If you don’t tackle them, they will beat you so bad it will get ugly. My hit with Deebo – that guy is a brick house. All their guys are like you hit them, you kind of fall off. Was that a human? Was that a wall? What was that? You look at them, their offense, they have an elite, elite player in every single offensive position, literally in every position group.”
Since Humphrey joined Baltimore from Alabama in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft, the Ravens have won at least 10 games in five seasons and have one losing record, when they went 8-9 in 2021. But this season was the closest Baltimore had gotten to the Super Bowl.
“There’s so much that went wrong,” Humphrey said about the AFC Championship Game, “but I would say the biggest thing probably would be defense, us getting off the field on fourth down, and some of those third downs, those were just like it hit you in the gut. And with an offense, … you’re like, ‘Whew, that was a close one, but we got it.’ That just builds so much momentum. And so getting off the field early in the game I think really could have helped our offense get back hot. And then at the end of the game, just the turnovers killed us in the second half. They played a really good game.”
