Ray Lewis Thread

HE KILLS ME

Was just coming so stRt this. What a dumb frick.

Stone cold Killa

Maybe the scariest linebacker ever. Great, shocking player and game changer.

#mute

They're all terrible. Gruden is preparing Manziel's HOF speech and Berman is trying to tip picks.

Ever since he offered to pay the fine for the hit on Brees I lost all respect for him.

After listening to his voice tonight, I'm pretty sure Ray Lewis is the guy that made the Greg Jennings broken leg youtube video

How did this idiot get a job Speaking on Live TV?

He's NEVER had anything insightful or intelligent to say on the broadcast, you can even see the other guys on cringing knowing he's going to speak even though he has nothing to say. Speaking just to speak.

Just another reason for me not to watch ESPN's NFL analysis. I'm fine with that.

This writer summed up Ray Lewis perfectly.

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What has become obvious — never more so than during his shameful performance on yesterday’s morning edition of “Sunday NFL Countdown” — is that no matter what you think of Lewis’s self-aggrandizement and cloudy past, he lacks every rudimentary quality expected of an analyst.

The list of what he has working for him ends at two: He’s a big-name ex-player, and he has an intense charisma. The former is hardly scarce — the NFL pregame show landscape is speckled with semi-charming former stars. And the latter gets old as soon as you realize how phony it is.

Lewis emphasizes and over-enunciates random words. He is addicted to the pregnant pause. He proselytizes to obfuscate. He requires these affectations in a desperate attempt to give his words the weight they lack. It works only on the already converted. He’s the same bad actor he ever was.

Bad dancer, too. That’s not a reference to his ridiculous look-at-me pregame routine during his playing days, which resembled an enraged squirrel having a conniption after his acorn supply had been stolen. It’s a reference to how Lewis responds when challenged, how he clumsily tap-dances around his conflicts of interest and contradictory statements. . . . . .


That loyalty to the man who signed his paycheck for so many years left Lewis in a difficult position Sunday. ESPN has delivered some extraordinary journalism in the aftermath of the Rice and Adrian Peterson situations, never more so than after commissioner Roger Goodell’s hapless press conference performance Friday.

Reporters Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg dropped a bombshell on the program “Outside The Lines,” revealing that the Ravens security director knew the full, ugly details of the Rice incident hours after it occurred. Presented with the information four days before any video of the incident surfaced, Ravens coach John Harbaugh pleaded to release Rice but was overruled by Bisciotti and team president Dick Cass.

Lewis is no stranger to a story with holes. But when asked by Chris Berman what he made of Friday’s revelations, he essentially went on a winding four-minute, 361-word speech/filibuster that established only what we already knew: that’s he’s indebted to the Ravens.

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