 It's got to be a really good feeling when amongst your peers you are Recognized as one of the best especially when you've been putting in work for years. You've been grinding it out and Initially you may not have gotten the accolades and not that the accolades that they confirm anything But the accolade the accolades are a nice little bonus and that's exactly how it's been with one Marlon Humphrey That's Ravens fans. We really saw Marlon Humphrey coming out We we've been seeing how good he has been for a little while now But the world didn't really know about Marlon Humphrey the world wasn't really introduced to Marlon Humphrey But then in comes one Lamar Jackson and of course it wasn't all Lamar Jackson But Lamar Jackson was a huge part of things because in came Lamar Jackson and he brought a lot of attention To the Baltimore Ravens He brought a whole lot of attention and that attention spread through every single part of the team from coaching to players To prime-time games to just the focus being on those Ravens and Marlon Humphrey he got to be a beneficiary of that Now of course Marlon Humphrey with or without Lamar Jackson Marlon Humphrey. He's been doing his thing But now again with a lot more media attention and whatnot a lot more people have been seeing Oh, whoa, this this guy Marlon Humphrey number 44 and he's gonna be keeping number 44 by the way But this kid no Marlon Humphrey number 44. He's pretty good and he got another high level of recognition From one of his peers but not just one of his peers one of his peers that he sees at least two times a year and Boy with Ben Rothesburger coming back is gonna make those match-ups that much more intense Because and just thinking about it Marlon Humphrey Marcus Peters Tavon Young it really all all the cornerbacks of the AFC North They have to go against some pretty tough competition But more so Raven specifically because they face against the receivers of the AFC North Now a lot of times when you think of receivers in the AFC North You might like be like, okay, they don't have any of the top guys but When you think about it, maybe they do they of course got the Browns have Odell Beckham, Jr. In Jarvis Landry, and that is a beautiful one-two combination The Steelers they have Juju Smith Schuster now James Washington, and you know the Steelers They breed receivers like nobody else and now they got their quarterback back That's big Because last year while Juju and James Washington and the rest of the Steelers they weren't really anything serious on offense They were missing their most serious piece on offense but anyway The Browns Baker Mayfield and again like we mentioned Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham, Jr. And then the Bengals Joe Burrow he's to be determined But they have if he ends up getting healthy. I know he's been sitting out a lot of practice They have AJ Green. They have Auden Tate who catches literally everything They have Tyler Boyd They just drafted T Higgins Like Bengals got a nice group of receivers. So being recognized as you know, let's get to the recognition Could we talking about recognition for all these great players in the AFC North? But not more than Humphrey. So let's see what Juju said. This was from Reddit from Reddit Phillip Milmore said, hey, Juju. Who's the toughest defender you've gone up against and why and Juju from his official reddit account. He responded and his answer. He said Marlon Humphrey Great player big defender plays the ball really well smart Instinctive he has it all as a DB love battling with Ultimate sign of respect Ultimate sign of respect and These are great characteristics of one Marlon Humphrey Great player. We talked about that early in the video big defender Now when he says big defender in my eyes, I don't think he's talking about in stature I think he's talking about that he he comes to defend. He don't play when it comes to defending Defending the territory defending the football just defending his side of the field Because that's him Marlon Humphrey and we've seen it happen before Marlon Humphrey can single-handedly take somebody out the game now There may be a little bit of holding here and then a little grab to the jersey in there, but He takes care of his business And moving on Plays the ball really well now we know Marlon's at that times he struggles with defending the deep pass Sometimes he gets a little lost out there when it comes to the deep pass, but overall Yes, that is very true. One thing about Marlon Humphrey Is what and it makes it why Marcus Peters is the perfect person opposite Marlon Humphrey man Because their strengths like they play off of each other strengths and they can counter each other's weaknesses What I mean when I say that Marlon Humphrey He will his goal is to make sure that you as a wide receiver You don't catch the football. That's his number one goal That's his number one target make sure that you as the wide receiver. You don't catch the football Now Marcus Peters on the other hand his number one goal is that he catches the football That he ends up turning to the wide receiver and he makes a better play on the football than you do And it's this just so it's a perfect pair man. We got that's all we got to get the Super Bowl like right now We should have got it last year, but okay last year's last year got to get it this year Because they ain't gonna be able to keep this team together forever. Anyway So plays the ball really well smart. Well, we know that instinctive Instinctive now the game actually against Juju as well from last year in Pittsburgh that comes to mind When Juju said Instinctive because in that game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Marlon Humphrey He and funny mallet the first two touchdowns of Marlon's career that he gave up because in his rookie year He didn't go up many touchdowns, but it wasn't until his second year I believe that he gave up his first touchdown But his first two touchdowns that he gave up his career came against Antonio Brown and AJ Green I believe but anyway in the Steelers game last year in Pittsburgh Marlon Humphrey wasn't him. Yeah in Pittsburgh Marlon Humphrey He I think it was one of one of the Steelers first drafts Juju caught the ball Marlon Humphrey was chasing him Marlon Humphrey caught up to him Marlon Humphrey tried to punch the ball out And he came up short Juju broke up touchdown And it's like we looking at Marlon we thinking about Marlon like why man? Why would you do that just tackle them you give the defense a better chance? Why you just trying to make this big play? What is you doing man? Come on, man It was like oh this guy so then It's over time It's over time Steelers get the ball I forgot whether it was Hodges or Rudolph it probably Rudolph because it was early in the season Whoever the Steelers quarterback was at that moment. They make a good pass to Juju. Juju catches the ball Marlon Humphrey The play earlier happened where he tried to punch it out and was unsuccessful and gave up a touchdown But he said you know what? I ain't worried about that that happened That was the past and we're gonna leave it just there so he used that same thumb that he used to point at to say that was the past to Try to punch that ball out and this time he was successful and that was the game Winning play of course Justin Tucker still had to make the field going well But that ended up being the a huge game changing play and it took great instincts because he must have felt in his mind I can get Juju to drop this ball. I can get this ball out of Juju's hands. I can knock this thing out I'm about to make it happen. I got to make it happen And that's exactly what Marlon Humphrey did He made it happen and that allowed the Ravens to win that game in Pittsburgh. No, what a game anyway And he also said he has it all as a DB love battling with him So, yeah, man, that's Marlon Humphrey in the in a nutshell, man Juju described Marlon Humphrey to a tee and he gave him his credit and it's that's that's that's a beautiful thing man I love when people Even though they play for opposite teams, they are obviously under the same umbrella the NFL and a lot of them are friends and whatnot But I just I love when people can give credit Where credit is due? I Love that and that's that's a beautiful thing, man. So this was special shout out to Juju, man And I'm looking forward to seeing Marlon go up against Juju and the rest of Steelers receivers and go against Ben Roethlisberger That should be fun. Oh Man this I just want that that Raven Steelers rivalry to get ignited again Because like I said, it has fallen off a bit. It's it's not the same as it once was and I've talked to multiple people about this but it's not the same as it once was and It's not just a lot has to do with the rules and whatnot But I think a lot of the players getting older and retiring moving on that changed a lot But I just I want that thing to get reignited like Browns Ravens. That's that's that's hot right now And I'm loving that But I want Steelers and Ravens to to get that old feel back and it may never get the old feel back But just get something with it. Anyway team keep it clean. Appreciate y'all. I love y'all and Just like the football said to juju Smith Schuster's hands when Marlon Humphrey punched it I'm out