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Originally posted by baltassoc
I think he's [Ray Lewis] trying to not be a thug.
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If he deployed 2% of his football talent in an effort not to be a thug, he could do it. But he doesn't. He comes out with the shimmy and shake dance and the woofing and the hollering. It's his schtick--not sure it makes him a thug, but it certainly doesn't disabuse anyone of the image of the lying accessory. But at least he's no Rae.
That said, I am constantly amazed whenever I watch a Ravens game that the guy is
everywhere on the field. I swear there are four guys on the Ravens wearing his number, because it seems like on each play he's pressuring the QB and making the tackle on the swing pass. Simply amazing . . . if the guy were not on defense, and had these skills as an RB or QB, he would probably be called the Michael Jordan (or, perhaps now, the Kobe Bryant or Alan Iverson) of football.
Say what you will about Gruden. He strikes me as merely smug (as compared, say, to Parcells, who is as first-rate an asshole as they come, and apparently follows the Roger Clemens school of loyalty and truthful dealing), but Chucky gets major dick points off for sticking it to Al Davis by walking away.
