Ray Lewis retiring at the end of the season
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
Ray Lewis announced he is retiring at the end of the season. Jason La Canfora @JasonLaCanfora So Ray Lewis says he'll retire at end of the season. And as I've been reporting Ed Reed could be gone too. Sun could be last game for both |
Could be interesting for Ravens next year and that defense
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Thank you for helping my morale after a tough season. Let's just hope that he fades away and doesn't get a job at a network. His ego makes Terrell Owens look like a trappist monk.
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Damn.
Gonna miss watching that guy play. One of the best. |
Best LB of all time, IMO.
if not, definitely top 3. I'd loved to have had a LB like that. |
Good careers.
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Crime Rates will rise if Ray Ray quits playing.....
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Would not want to be the Colts this weekend. They will play all out
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Definitely the best linebacker of the last 15 years. It was fun watching him on the field.
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lol
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Best linebacker to ever play IMO. That man is gonna make one hell of a head coach someday.
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I remember watching Chiefs v Ravens in 99 and be awed by Ray Ray
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I still remember him cryin like a bitch on MNF when Tony Richardson and the o-line kept targeting him with double teams and such lol. "ITS NOT POSSIBLE!"
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Hire him as our next DC!
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I bet he'll be the next guy to do something horrible in retirement.
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Ray and Ed will huge losses for the defense and team.
The Ravens might be headed into a retooling period after this season. The loss of a couple of 1st ballot HoF players. |
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adios, Killer. |
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Well I would hope Will Shields took him out on that play. The guy has how many pounds on Ray?
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One has to remember that Ed Reed is likely to retire after this season also. The Ravens are going to look a lot different (they have already been playing without key guys from time to time anyways). Newsome is a awesome GM but he is going to have to strike gold again. At this moment the Ravens are who they are... a 10 win team that is aging fast.
Ray Lewis is arguably one of the top 3 greatest LB's of all-time! |
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Sadface....
I loved watching the guy play. One of the best ever. |
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Ray Lewis is one of the best to ever play LB (don't forget LT & Butkus).
Ed Reed is the 2nd best safety of all time, IMO (behind Ronnie Lott). |
This guy is fit to coach a ****in defense. Talk about a good motivator
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Terrell Suggs has been around a lot longer than I thought. I would not have expected to see him in that clip. |
Now watch, Clark will be flying to Baltimore to interview him for a head coaching position...
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Come on Clark. Affter Balt loses throw the checkbook at this guy for DC or LB coach lol. I'd take Ray Ray motivating Hali, Houston, DJ and company
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I remember one of the TD's we ran a play action and threw it to Jason Dunn (who caught all of like 10 passes the whole season). Lewis' response was something along the lines of, "Just takin' whatever they can get!" That always made me laugh. As if somehow the TD wasn't worth as much because Dunn caught the pass. |
Hire this guy as DC.
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Ray Lewis done
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Thread done.
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on the front page holmes.
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That season was frustrating. Our defense was just as bad as it was the previous season. Our offense started off a little sputtery at the beginning too, which didn't help things. That Carolina game we could have easily won. We were on the one yard line going in to score, up 7, and, for whatever reason, we decided to pass. Green throws a pick-6 that was run back about 105 yards. Instead of being up by 14, the game was tied. It went to hell after that. We followed up that Ravens performance with a bad loss at Jacksonville. Green threw too many INTs early on. He snapped out of it but it was too little too late. We lost a lot of close games that year. |
Count me on the list who doesn't think he's a top LB.
He's good yes, but he's been part of a good system and surrounded by great talent. I've always thought he was an asshole and haven't forgotten his being part of a murder. He shouldn't even be in the league IMO. Won't miss him and I don't really like Baltimore, so I guess it's a bonus. |
Just looked it up.....you were right Bobby.
We were actually 3-8 at one point in 2004. Ouch....... http://www.pro-football-reference.co...s/kan/2004.htm |
I'm sure it will be a very intense retirement.
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I love the "sorry if repost."
I'm sorry for anyone that asks something of you, you lazy ****! It's only in the first few threads on the front ****ing page! |
Completely new news!
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Opening up in Denver that year on MNF was a bad omen. Eric Hicks biting on that that bootleg and Bartee giving up the sluggo... That Jacksonville game just kind of...slipped away. It was so imminently winnable... The Atlanta and Indy game were the highlights. And when we beat the sleeves off Denver @ Arrowhead, but we had already lost 9 games by then... And I thought that season was just SO horrible. HA! |
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I remember the Atlanta game where we scored 50+ points and every single one of the TDs were rushing. Atlanta came in with the #1 rushing defense and we blew a nasty fart in their face by running for like 500 yards. That game got Blaylock a fat contract from New York. I remember beating Indy too that year. That was fun. Those Vermeil teams weren't great, but they were good. And that offense gave us every opportunity to win every single game. Many Vermeil bashers slam him because he never won anything. But even with that horrid defense, I felt like we had a chance every game. I thought that 10-6 team in 2005 was very, very good. We missed the playoffs but I felt like we could beat just about anyone. The Philly game and the Dallas game we had no business losing. None. We could have very easily been 12-4 that year and we were playing very well at the end. I would have taken us against anyone in the playoffs. So sad to see us now; even if it wasn't ever "great". |
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Drew Brees, Lebron James, etc? If this guy was dancing and pre-game speech in a Chiefs uniform you'd have 10 inch boner for him and be in love with him. That's the difference. |
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If Lewis was a Chief I would be more patient with him, most likely, but I'd still probably reach for the chip and dip whenever the camera showed him flailing around before the game. I appreciate the 10-inch comment, though I wonder how you knew that. |
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I can't see him ever coaching. He sure doesn't seem to have that demeanor. |
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It's like Comparing Josh Brent of the Cowboys to Jovan Belcher. Not the same. As for LB, DT was a great pass rusher, but he definitely was a liability in run defense. |
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I'm not sure that a top player is really a good fit as a coach. I think the top players have good instincts and/or exceptional natural skills, and it's hard for them to recognize that not every player has those. If you're going to hire a former player, I think you're better off hiring some guy who was a marginal player, but stayed in the league because he really, really, really understood the game and maximized his limited abilities. It's kind of a Jim Harbaugh/Marty Schottenheimer/Don Shula/Tom Landry model as opposed to a Mike Singletary/Forrest Gregg/Raymond Berry/Bart Starr model. Has a big star ever been a highly successful coach? |
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Yeah. That's not the same thing as the other option.
A friend dying in an accident is not the same as Stabbing a stranger to death. Ray Lewis has been a very good Linebacker, but I'm going to stick to my opinion that he's over-hyped and over-rated. He's played his entire career with good linebackers on both sides, an aggressive scheme, solid safety play behind him and a stout front 3 keeping blockers off of him. |
Lewis will end up coaching at some point imo
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So ray ray retiring hide yo kids hide yo wife because he going to be looking to stab someone.
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The Chiefs should call Lewis as soon as his season is done and offer him the LB coaching job.
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over rated, move on.
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I'll hate the Ravens a little less once he's gone.
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I call shenanigans. This whole shtick is a manipulation of the media in attempt to motivate Joe Falco to not choke in the 4th quarter
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The '04 game was the one on MNF. |
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Anyone think he should take a stab at coaching?
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