re: Ray Lewis Thread

I thought somebody would have mentioned his hair by now. Dude needs to get trimmed up big time. Oh and no one has called out Dion for his obvious racism

Hell of a bump

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Was just looking to stay on topic without repeating a thread.

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My man

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that's like saying herpes is better than AIDS

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Pretty sure every sane person thinks herpes is better than aids.

Derrick Brooks was better

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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Wow that article nailed it, this is exactly how he speaks when he has his time.

He has a false intensity to show how passionate he feels... about, well, not much of anything really because there's almost Never a point that he's making.

Not every high profile athlete needs to step up to the mic, and he's loudly and proudly paving the way to this truth.