December 20, 2025 • 31 mins
We've got a bonus mini-episode for you this week! We're covering legendary defensive players and Baltimore Ravens teammates, Ed Reed & Ray Lewis! Gronk and Julian Edelman discuss what made Ed and Ray so great and some their favorite memories of the duo.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get on Ed Rear.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Coach Balichick's favorite defensive player besides who's that guy from
the New York Giants Jewels that he loves as.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lawrence Taylor always gets a hard on for Lawrence Taylor.
But he had another fall. He got about like three
quarters chub for Ed Reid. We used to call Ed
Reed ed Reid Belichick. So let's see what AI asked
to say. Well, you couldn't blame coach Balichick because Reed
was a baller.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He was a ball or athletic, all right. Start the clock.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Ed Reed standing at five foot eleven and weighing two
hundred five pounds at replay safety for the Baltimore Ravens,
Houston Texans, and New York Jets. The Jets when he
played for the late late twenty thirteen, they must have
been one season.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
One season.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Drafted twenty fourth overall, he just probably wanted that, you know,
final chuck, because why would he go to the Jets
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
All right, we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Drafted twenty fourth overall in two thousand and two out
of the University of Miami, he was known for his
high football IQ play making, abillity, and unmatched leadership. He
was a game changer, finishing his career with sixty four interceptions,
fifteen one hundred and ninety interception return yards cool and
seven defensive touchdowns. He was a nine time Pro Bowler,
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two thousand and four NFL Defense Player of the Year,
and is an all time NFL leader in interception return yards.
I was gonna say that right when I heard that
number as well, It's like that has to be an
all time record, I ran, No, one must be close.
He played his entire career with the Baltimore Ravens. Oh wait, wait,
say hey, a you just said he played for three
teams in the first sentence, and now the last sentence,
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he played his entire career with the Baltimore Ravens. That
ain't true, and help bring them their second Super Bowl
victory with a win over the forty nine Ers and
Super Bowl forty seven. Now, he played for three teams,
Houston Texans and the New York Jets.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But he had his.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Best you know, career years obviously with the Baltimore Ravens,
and then just finished off with the irrelevant years.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
He's roughly Baltimore Raven for life, Miami Hurricane player for life,
the U.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, he's known.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
He put the He helped put the U on the
map and also helped, you know, put that defense of
the Baltimore Ravens on the map as well. This is
why Lewis was there, Yeah, Ray Lewis. I mean, that's
why they were known as.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The toughest defense in in the NFL. Ray Lewis.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Ad Reid and what's his yeah, t sizzle Drouse, Oh
loading nada man, that dude, Oh my gosh, he's like
Vita vea basic three hundred and sixty pounds, just massive,
blows up holes you can't move them. But what's the
first thing you think of about ad Reid when you
hear his name, Jules.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
First thing I think of is cover for red area.
Him blowing me up. I'm sorry, he blew me up
in that. Remember when we played the first I'm sorry
I asked you this question. Yeah he uh, he did
blow you up? Remember that? Yeah, we were playing there,
uh he oh yeah, he lit me up. But you
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got right back up though, I did. We ended up
scoring you a tough SB Jules, but that nah, he
tough son of a gun. He was just the first thing,
like he was just everywhere, Like what's that one? There's
that one thing. Two thirds of the earth is covered
by water, the other third is covered by Ed Reid.
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Like that. That is what I think of when I
think of Ed Reid. Got to compete against him from
a very young age at my rookie year, and that's
when we were going. They were coming and beating us
in Foxboro. We were battling them in the AFC Championship.
You remember those early years we battled him. That was
like our Denver in the back of our career where
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we were going playing the toughest, you know what I mean.
It just was always a battle, and Ed Reid was
just a very unpredictable dude to try to get a
beat on. He bade a qbs in the mistakes all
the time, all the time, all the time. You ever
meet him.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I never met Ed Reid, No, never have man good
because I really never met him on the field either,
which is a good thing. I played my rookie year,
but I really didn't play that much versus Baltimore Ravens
my rookie year, probably twenty thirty plays. I never really
had a chance to match up with him, and then
he was kind of onto the next teams, like those
irrelevant years on those teams of just not really playing
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versus some But I just remember him in the heyday though,
which was good. I'm glad that his heyday was before
my heyday because I probably wouldn't have had a heyday
then if there's had Reed still in his heyday when
I was there.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But just what I really loved about him was just
his range.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, he was a guesser and he baited quarterbacks and
the mistakes, but also he bait him in the mistakes
and then have that range to cover that mistake that
the quarterback is making. Yeah, he would get you to
throw that deep ball and act like he was out
of coverage, but he was so fast and athletic he
would go and get that deep ball and make that interception.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You want to know how good ad Reid was, how
calm jeueles, how good he was.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What ad time I have to do in the playoffs
in twenty eleven in that AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What did he have to do? Because that read was
just that guy. I remember he used to have to
put in his on his wristband because you know, for
extended plays sometimes if you had to check with me,
you'd have a lengthy verbiage thing. So we put it
on there. Yeah, I bet you he remember he had
the reminder that said fine number twenty because he was
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just that big of a focal point of that defense
he was, you know what I mean, that's how much
it wasn't just fine number twenty, It was fine.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Number twenty on every play, every locato, and throw the
ball the other way?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It what didn't say throw the ball any way? But
you gotta find him.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yep, you gotta find him. You gotta know where he is.
You got a base to playoff of him. You gotta
alert it, you gotta lerner aar. When Tom's doing that,
that means he doesn't like where twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Is exactly without a doubt. And I remember plays where
Tom used to talk about, you know, he'd watch Ed
Reid and Ed Reid would be on the ground and
he's got like the deep third and he'd be on
the ground in the ball, lying on the ground like
a goddamn lion, and then get up and sprint back
there and go pick a ball like that's kind of instinct.
That he had. But what I loved about Ray also
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because early on my career I was a return I
was a special teamer, and whenever we played against the
Baltimore Ravens on all units, he was a fucking problem
on our punt return or our punt team. He had
the up and under on the field goal block. He
had the up and under like he used to block kicks,
scoop scores, he returned kicks for touchdowns. He just was
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an all around fucking unbelievable football player that young football
players need to watch and not try to emulate, because
not everyone can be Ed Reid. Not everyone can do that,
but like understand that, Like this dude's like a freak.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What would you say is the better safety between the
two ultimate safeties in the AFC North, Troy Polamolo or
Ad Reid?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's so hard. They're different players. I think of Ed
as more of a deep safety, like a free I
think of Paula Malu more of a like a strong safety.
So I think they're different. Both just electric football players
that you want to play with, Like I would love
to get to play with them because the amount of
practice against them that you would get, like it would
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make you a better football player, sure would. Iron sharpens
on what do you think? It depends on the scheme.
It depends on the defensive coach, what their mindset is.
Like you said, if you have a scheme where the
safeties you know, are blitzing more and making more plays
in the backfield and acting more.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Of like a linebacker, you got to go with Troy Polamalu.
But if you have a scheme where it's more about coverage,
you got to go with ad Reed, no doubt about it.
I mean, this guy could cover any part of the
field at any given time, even if.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
He's on one side.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
If he has one half of the field, he can
go to the other half and give help to the
safety once the ball is release so fast and just
so quick. And what's so great about him too, is
just as ball skills man. He would like tip that
ball to him like all the time for an interception
like and then wide receiver skills.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Post in or exception and he'd be throwing you throw
the ball back. They always you always had to be
alert for a lateral or remember he stole the ball
from his teammate to pick it when he was about
to fall down Out of players who didn't play for
coach Belichick, who do you think is on the mount
rushmore of guys that he loves? Because I for sure
ed Reed would be obviously Lawrence Taylor. We just talked
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we played for him, but that we didn't play that
we didn't play with What do you mean we didn't
like that coach that that didn't coach? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Maybe that so because he coached Lawrence Taylor. He coached
Lawrence Taylor's out of there, but he's still on there.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He's still he's still on the Lawrence Taylor all right,
I would say.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Ed Reed might might be number one. Then the guy
that Coach Belichick never coached, never dreamed of coaching.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Sorry, Devin mccordy, we got you back. You want to
rate dudes on dudes? Well, Coach Balichick love that, oh
got him. Who else would be on there? Who else
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did he love? Probably like a pun?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean, well, he coached Cam Newon. He loved Cam Newing.
I always talked about Cam Newing, you gotta contain him
in the pocket. But then he coached Cam Newon, So
that one doesn't really count, but it was him. Love
Peyton Manny, no doubt about it. Love another guy at
a legend played way back in the day, Jim Brown.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Bill Bill loved Jim Brown. He whenever that is, that
is such a good pool because anytime there'd be just
guys slap we'd be slap digging in the locker room
and Bill be coming in with his little fucking towel.
You know, you go to the treadmill with this binder
and his towel. You're going to watch some film on
the tread and guys be arguing about shit. You know,
Bill sometimes would say something. He'd be like, hey, you
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know what I mean? And I remember someone guys were
arguing about top top running backs of all time. Oh
it's this guy. It's this guy. I think he said,
Jim Brown. You guys don't know, fucking Jim Brown's best
football player. Like he loves Jim Brown, loves loves Jim Brown.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What about Ed Reid's you know college days, he was,
he was the guy at the U, like he exemplified
what the U was all about. Top hard and nose
football players that gave no damn, no damn out there
out on the field, gave it. They're all And this
just represents him in just one play. What you got
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jewels about that?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Miami versus Boston College two thousand and one. Miami was
up twelve seven late in the game and Boston College
was in the red zulue. Do you remember this play? Yeah,
one of the most famous college football players of all time.
He got deflected into what one of his defensive linemen,
ad Red, strips the ball from him and takes it
eighty yards to the house and they ended up winning
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eighteen to seven.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Flashy like their defense, Like just just fun flash playmaker. Yeah,
put it in. He's also like a speech giver. You know,
you look at this one speech. I'm sitting there. They're
up twenty one to three at halftime. He was pissed
at Miami's effort because they were like national champion hopes.
This is when the U is the freaking U. He
you go and and Ed Reid, I'm hurt. Don't ask
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me if I'm all right. I'm putting my heart in
this ship. Let's go, man. And what happened? They go
and blow him out forty nine and then what what happened?
End of the year? Lose the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They won the national championship BCS National Championship. That is
two thousand and one. The U was the you who
didn't love you.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's on the Mount Rushmore. You guys too, isn't he?
Ray Lewis m h I mean what what offensive guys?
Michael Irving gores there. Shocky, there's a couple. There's a
bunch of tight ends. What about Andre Johnson, Andre Johnson,
Reggie Wayne Warren sap oh man, this goes on that.
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I want to hear what people think. Who's on that
big vv? How can you forget about big Viude? Greg Ols?
I mean you when we were kids. Man, you know what.
I love the U. Dude.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I got an offer from the U to go play
tight end there. Yeah, I wasn't gonna go there. Was
was at the very and I just thought like I
was complete because I got the offer from the Like,
it just made me satisfied, like, yeah, I could play
at the U.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But I'm not going there, but I could play that
I got the offer. I was, you know, very happy,
but you when I was when I you know, when
you're in eighth grade and you do that thing where
you write a letter to yourself and then your teacher
saves it and then sends it to you and you're
a senior in high school. Mine's went along the lines
of something like this, like, it's good to see that
you're probably going to be signing your your commitment letter
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to University of Miami. I hope you enjoyed the sunshine.
I wanted to go to the U so bad. I
wrote to myself in eighth grade to fucking myself in
the future. And little that I know, I was ending
up at JUCO and yeah, I didn't didn't go to
the end. And then Kent. It was kind of it
was close to close because that was in yours. That
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was close. That was close. Run it up at Kent.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It was like that lot of we can't do the U,
but we can do the Kent, which is kind of
near Miami. But the Miami Ohio yea, yeah, So it
was never offered to go to Kent, and then you
would still you would still be in the junior college
right now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
To go beat beat you you manifest to play against
Joey Paul Mulo have manifested play against Miami of Ohio Baby.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Miami, Ohio grade school. My friend went there him twice
and let me tell you, we had a good time.
And my jersey is up on the wall and it
got stolen. It was right next to Big Ben's jersey.
Forgot the place we went to, oh Man Miami House.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I went Sean d it. I played against Sean McVay
when he went to Miami Ohio. He's that young. Yeah, no, no,
he's that young. He's both because he's the head coach.
I know, but he was a head coach ten years ago.
I think he got any twenty. What position did he play?
He was the receiver slot. He had a catch against us, Yeah,
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just one, though I don't really remember. Now, I guarantee
you remember me. That's what we're talking about, all right,
I let it go time. What kind of dude is
Edrie oh Man?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean, definitely a wizard, because you got to know
the game of football, especially on the defensive side of
the ball, in order to bait your quarterback into throwing
the ball so you.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Can go make an interception. But he's absolute dog too.
When he made that interception, brought it to the house,
stripping his.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Lineman in college, so he can go for an eighty
hour touchdown not returning as well as the most electric
returns in most yardage return in the NFL history.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Player, When you're the superstar on defense and you're still
playing in the kicking game, that's fucking dog. That's when
you know you're a legend. That's a dog. That's when
you know you're a football player. Is well, mental toughness,
always motivated. You knew that. You knew Ed Reid was motivated.
Heart and soul of the U. Well, I mean there's
so many hearts there. Yeah, yeah, there was so many hearts.
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But one of them one of the heart and souls
of the U. One of the heart and souls. So dogs, dog, dog,
stamping damp it dog. We'll start with former teammate of
mine on Inside the NFL Ray Lewis, scary s o B.
Let's see what AI has to say about him.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right, we got some dude synopsis here. Scariest dude
Number one is ray Lewis. Let's see what AI has
to say.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Let's ay, I gotta say.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Ray Lewis is widely regarded. Ray Lewis is widely regarded
as one of the greatest middle linebackers in NFL history,
known for his intense playing style and leadership on the
field and off the field, he overcame personal challenges and
became a motivational figure, often speaking about discipline and perseverance.
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Lewis had significant impact on the Baltimore Ravens, leading them
to two Super Bowl victories and earning the Super Bowl
MVP and two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wow Wow, I was twelve years old in two thousand
and one, Jules, how old were you about? Fifteen? Fourteen,
fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Notably, he is the only player in NFL history with
over forty career sacks and thirty interceptions instinct. Additionally, he
was a twelve time pro bowler and a two time
NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Ray Lewis for you,
ladies and gentlemen, brought to you by AI.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I think the AI is pretty right. I worked with
Ray as soon as I retired on inside the NFL,
and in those pre production meetings he would speak and
I felt like I wanted to run through a goddamn
brick wall. Every time he would speak. He sounded like
a pastor with the mix of craziness and a mix
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of a gladiator quote. Don't Ray, don't think I don't
know where your quotes come from. We went to Rome
together and I figured out that all of Ray's motivational
quotes come from the movie The Gladiator. It was crazy,
he's I remember playing him. He knocked me out of game.
First off, what game was that? And what year was
that he knocked you out of the game? It was
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Remember when Dion Branch came back for the first game back?
So about was it twenty thirteen or fourth year or
this year? This was like twenty twelve, eleven.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Or twelve, Yeah, it was two. Branch came back left
on the team on eleven. Yes, yes, two thousand time.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
My rookie year.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Randy Moss was traded after the fourth game of the season.
And then didn't we trade for We traded back for
Dion Branch right that year, So it was my rookie year.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
It was your rookie year.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, twenty ten, the same season that Randy Moss got traded.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, and he hit me on under in the red area,
and I remember hello, Di Nada like picking me up
and saying, hey, buddy, you're you're luck your sidelines that way.
That was.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That was at Chilotte Stadium at yes, and it was
twenty ten ten.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It was he lit me up and then the year before.
This is my second year in the league. Year before,
in the playoffs, he scored and I on a scramble
in the red area, Tom darted it to me. I
caught it in and I got a touchdown. And Ray
was right behind me, and he needed me so hard
in my left butt cheek that like I got a
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crazy hematoma and I looked like I had j low
booty on more like my butt was just I had
one big butt. It was so fucking crazy. If we
would have we got smoked that game, but I wouldn't
have been able to play the next week because I
had like internal bleeding. It was fucking nuts. So that
dude has scared the shit out of me. What do
you think about? First off, A, I hit it, hit
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it on point.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But they didn't, you know, talk about all his characteristics
that he brings to the table as well. Yes, a
great motivational speaker, great player, you know, all the accolades,
two time Super Bowl, chain apient whatever, twelve time pro bowler,
But they didn't talk about the characteristics that makes him
himself vicious out in the field, vicious, absolutely vicious, intimidating
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one hundred percent. I would put my hand down, and
I was already scared of Ray Lewis when he was
lined up in front of me. I was when when
you're scared of a player, you're kind of already beat
as well. Just that's how intimidating he was. Just a
nature of just the way he carried himself and energy
that he brought to the table. You did not want
to mess with Ray Lewis, no doubt, no ants, ifs
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or butts about that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now. He was not just scary, but he was also
like one of the smartest football players you fucking played,
very intellectual it like we I remember we'd be in
a three by one, like a Trip's formation, and he'd
be sitting there calling out like all I watched this hook,
watch his hook like he'd be calling our plays and
he would I remember talking to when we worked together,
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and he would study all of our our TV copies
so he could hear Tom's signals, he could hear all
the line front signals. So anytime we would play the
Ravens with Ray, we kind of knew that he knew everything.
We had to change everything because he was such a smart,
hard working guy that did anything it took to fucking
go out and win a game. If that meant sitting
watching five hours of all the TV copies to just
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to get one little signal from something, That's what ray
Lewis was doing. And he was just he was fucking.
Like we look at middle linebackers now, middle linebackers are
two hundred and twenty five, two hundred and thirty pounds.
Ray Lewis was sidelined to sideline two fifty two fifty
doing war dances before the game, getting the whole city
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of Baltimore some light. I mean, he was their first
first pick of that franchise. Like he set the stage
for what Baltimore has become. You know, Like what he
said in his things known for defense, tough team. You
know it's carried out throughout you know, Harbor Harboro inherited him,
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rose it to what it is now. But there are
tough fucking team. And ray Lewis was like the wardaddy
of the war daddies.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And he was the definition of a linebacker in the
NFL in the in the decade of the two thousand era,
no doubt about that. Big, strong, intimidating, fast, took no
shit at all.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
He was the defensive captain.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He was the guy in the huddle that got everyone
you know, in the right spots where they needed to be.
He was the one that was calling every single defensive player.
He was the absolute definition of a Mike linebacker, of
a middle linebacker. Mike linebacker is just a name for
the middle linebacker for all you people out there, So
Mike linebacker, middle linebacker, same exact thing, MLB. But he
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was the definition. He was the standard of strength, of speed,
of agility of a middle linebacker. And how giveness and
how instinctiveness intellectual, just how smart he was the a
build to know what plays were being called and how
to fill a gap as well. That I'm mother effort,
That mother effort knew how to fill a gap and
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blow a gap up better than any linebacker.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
In the history of the game.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And he set the example to all young guys, all players,
all defensive players in high scoring college on how to
play the linebacker position in the game of football. There's
no doubt about that. And that was mean aggressive.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What else is there? Julian fucking instinctive, Yes, just all
of it. And once again I got to experience and
I got to be on a team, you know, with
Ray and the way he motivated guys like his stories
and like how he would you have to Like he
told me once we're doing inside the NFL, he goes,
you got to win the crowd to win your freedom.
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I'm like, Ray, we're talking about football. We're not in
a goddamn We're not at the Colisseum right now. Okay,
I want to run through the wall, but we're not
hitting nobody. Yes, he would. He would say something and
I couldn't understand anything, but I got the point. Like
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he would say something, I'm like, fuck, yeah, I don't.
Let's let's have the best fucking show. Let's have a show, right,
Like That's how Ray was, you know, and we we
uh we went and did this convention over in Croatia together,
and so I was like, great, let's you want to
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go to Rome after with me? And so me and
Ray went to Rome and to watch him go. We
went to the coliseum for a day and it was
like watching a kid walk into a candy shop. When
he saw that Colisseum, like you could tell that it
was like ingrained in them. He was like, this is
where the men that I am used to perform in
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the day of age of them. He said, something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
To me, like race in one of his past lives.
I bet you he was a gladiator in the Colisseum Er.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, hey, he I saw he He literally had a
single tear when he walked, and he saw just how
grand and old and how he was. You could see
him using his imagination for all the freaking fans and
stuff and guys ripping each other's goddamn heads off, and
it like he loved it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait a second, do you think he was one of
the gladiators back in the day or was he one
of those lions?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
No, he was, he was, he was, he both.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He he was lying heart, lying heart, but a gladiator.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, lion heart, lionheart like band damn. Can't disagree with that.
Have you ever been covered by him? I've been covered
by him a few times.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I mean, obviously his game was stopping the run, but
he was very smart in the zone coverage as well.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Hell of picks, yes, a lot of picks. I mean
what he has?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What thirty interceptions and over fifty sacks?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What was that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The only person, the only one to ever do it.
And you know he's just very athletic for his size too. Man,
his arms are just massive. It just looks like a
guy out of like a magazine cover, you know, just
straight off a magazine from front page cover, right off
the stands and just put on the football field.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Gladiator.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
He was a definition of what a guy and Madden
looks like. You know when you're playing the game, Matten,
you know you just got taken right out of the
video game and put right on the field.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But I got to clear up a little bit with
ray Lewis.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I mean the guy you know, back end of his
career when we were facing him, so we didn't really
get the true ray Lewis, just like all of us
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, he definitely let you up still.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But when you're in your prime prime, you're moving people,
no matter what the situation is, you're moving people.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You're blowing up the holes all that. So we didn't.
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I never got like leveled by ray Lewis. I definitely
felt his power. But here's a situation.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I was running.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This thing goes viral all over Instagram all the time
where it's a clip of me running over Ray Lewis.
But let me get this clear out there. I didn't
really like technically run over ray Lewis. I mean I
did in the clip, and people just take it out
of context because you know, on the film directly like
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with you know, you just take that three seconds of
a clip and I am running over Ray Lewis. But
here's the deal. Here's the situation. It was a passing
play and I was on a route. He was dropping
back in the coverage, and I was debating. I had
an incut twelve yard incut, and I was debating because
he was dropping back, you know, doing his thing, trying
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to making it hard on myself because you know, you know,
he's very smart of a player, knows how to drop
back and get you confused of where he's going, so
then it kind of throws you off your route. So
I'm like, do I go outside of him because he's
dropping out of my out of my zone, out out
of the area where I got to run the twelve
yard incut? Or is he going inside and I should
go inside? Or should I go outside of him? You
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know what I'm trying to say. So I'm debating, and
I'm kind of stiff this game. You know, I'm just
running straight and I'm debated, shall go out?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Should I go in? Shl I go out, should I
go in?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And I'm running full speed at him, debating, and then boom,
I just clashed right into him. So he wasn't really
paying attention to me, and he was looking back at
the quarterback. But when I clashed right into him on
the passing route, he went flying backwards and I ran
him over. And then I like jumped up real quick
and acted like I was wide open, so like I
didn't really run him over. No, I didn't get a
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catch either, So it was great coverage by him actually,
like to the t if you ask me, But it's
a clip where I'm like, no, it's like just taking
off context. I will tell you when I ran.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That sounds scary of a guy. He is is where
Rob over here ran his ass over. Okay, I don't
want to hear it right he got ran over.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
No, I didn't run him in coverage and I just
ran my route through him.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
He's trying to justify running him over and did not
make Ray mad at him. I don't want Ray mad
at me. Tell you that right now.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But I was just running my route and it went
through him and he was you know, he was on
his on his heels backing up back pedaling and using
his fly Yeah, he did go flying, but it was
not like a run player or anything. If that was
a run play and I blocked him like that, well
then that's off to me.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I would still go running.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I would still run to the other sideline because I'd
still be scared of Ray Lewis. But uh, I didn't
technically run him over. It was just a little mishap.
And Jules I got a question when he did that,
you know, the war dance running out of the tunnel,
the Baltimore fans going crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Did you ever watch one of those war dances every time?
Were you like looking the other way like Coach no, no, Belichick,
I'm not I'm not watching it because that's what Bill said.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, don't be paying attention to what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Just worry about what you're doing. But ray Lewis is
war dance. You had a peep, dude, that's that's a peak, dude.
You had to Coach Belichick had a Ravens weekend even
though he's be like, look, we're gonna be going to Baltimore.
We're gonna have Ray doing his goddamn fucking war dance. Like,
just get your heads right, get your heads right for
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the game. We're all. You know he's gonna be doing
that war dance. You know he's referenced the war dance. Wait,
his war dance is called the squirrel dance. Ain't no
squirrel doing that?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, because Jewels, you're a squirrel, you ain't doing those
type of dances.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I never heard anyone even call it nice war dance dance.
It was started by his friends in his hometown. They
named it the squirrel dance because it had the whole
town jumping. I get it now, I know. But the
squirrel dance, you're the squirrel. Yeah, And I don't see
a squirrel looking that scary. No, squirrels are furry and cute. Kine,
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it's and ugly. No, Ray looks like he wants to
bite your face off and do a war dance on
your face after it's been bit off.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
What about his vibe or overall Ray Lewis is or
I mean the visor, what the you know, the little
bands on his arm?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
All that just a scary player over scar in that
purple and black. That's just a mean looking team. It
is all right, all right, time, let's determine what kind
of duty is all right, ray Lewis. What kind of
dude is ray Lewis?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Is he a freak? Of course, he's a freak. I
mean he definitely has freak of nature in him. I
mean he's gigantic. He's a definition he's I mean of
a middle linebacker.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
He's a whizz as well. He was so innovative for
the sideline the sideline quarterback of the defense type linebacker.
I don't you know, I could be recency biased, but
this is what we grew up on. He's a dude's
dude as well.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean, positive attitude, the motivational speaking, getting everyone going,
bringing everyone together.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I mean he's special, man. That's special.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Just to have that, you know, in life, is to
just be able to motivate people and bring people together.
And on top of it, just being that phenomenal of
a football player. Man, That's what really made him special.
He had so many great characteristics that he brought to
a team, not just being a good player.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I think he's a dog. He's relentless, he's motivated, he's
physically and mentally tough. Dude. Tourres Tricep came back in
a fucking like four weeks for the game like he's
he doesn't care if he has something hanging on by
a thread, if it's a playoff game, or if it's
an AFC North Divisional game, or if it's a game
against US. You knew Ray Lewis was gonna be out
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there doing his goddamn war dance before the game, getting
the whole fucking crowd going crazy. You know that's gonna
be what Ray does. And he's a fucking dog. He's
a dog. He is a dog.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
At anytime you're a dog, you get the job done.
And he got the job done every single time he
hit the field.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Let's go to our next game. I never messing with Ray.
Hell no, I'm gonna be best friends with him, and
he would love the shit out of you. Reason the
best teammate ever
Let's get on Ed Rear.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Coach Balichick's favorite defensive player besides who's that guy from
the New York Giants Jewels that he loves as.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lawrence Taylor always gets a hard on for Lawrence Taylor.
But he had another fall. He got about like three
quarters chub for Ed Reid. We used to call Ed
Reed ed Reid Belichick. So let's see what AI asked
to say. Well, you couldn't blame coach Balichick because Reed
was a baller.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He was a ball or athletic, all right. Start the clock.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Ed Reed standing at five foot eleven and weighing two
hundred five pounds at replay safety for the Baltimore Ravens,
Houston Texans, and New York Jets. The Jets when he
played for the late late twenty thirteen, they must have
been one season.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
One season.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Drafted twenty fourth overall, he just probably wanted that, you know,
final chuck, because why would he go to the Jets
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
All right, we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Drafted twenty fourth overall in two thousand and two out
of the University of Miami, he was known for his
high football IQ play making, abillity, and unmatched leadership. He
was a game changer, finishing his career with sixty four interceptions,
fifteen one hundred and ninety interception return yards cool and
seven defensive touchdowns. He was a nine time Pro Bowler,
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two thousand and four NFL Defense Player of the Year,
and is an all time NFL leader in interception return yards.
I was gonna say that right when I heard that
number as well, It's like that has to be an
all time record, I ran, No, one must be close.
He played his entire career with the Baltimore Ravens. Oh wait, wait,
say hey, a you just said he played for three
teams in the first sentence, and now the last sentence,
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he played his entire career with the Baltimore Ravens. That
ain't true, and help bring them their second Super Bowl
victory with a win over the forty nine Ers and
Super Bowl forty seven. Now, he played for three teams,
Houston Texans and the New York Jets.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But he had his.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Best you know, career years obviously with the Baltimore Ravens,
and then just finished off with the irrelevant years.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
He's roughly Baltimore Raven for life, Miami Hurricane player for life,
the U.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, he's known.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
He put the He helped put the U on the
map and also helped, you know, put that defense of
the Baltimore Ravens on the map as well. This is
why Lewis was there, Yeah, Ray Lewis. I mean, that's
why they were known as.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The toughest defense in in the NFL. Ray Lewis.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Ad Reid and what's his yeah, t sizzle Drouse, Oh
loading nada man, that dude, Oh my gosh, he's like
Vita vea basic three hundred and sixty pounds, just massive,
blows up holes you can't move them. But what's the
first thing you think of about ad Reid when you
hear his name, Jules.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
First thing I think of is cover for red area.
Him blowing me up. I'm sorry, he blew me up
in that. Remember when we played the first I'm sorry
I asked you this question. Yeah he uh, he did
blow you up? Remember that? Yeah, we were playing there,
uh he oh yeah, he lit me up. But you
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got right back up though, I did. We ended up
scoring you a tough SB Jules, but that nah, he
tough son of a gun. He was just the first thing,
like he was just everywhere, Like what's that one? There's
that one thing. Two thirds of the earth is covered
by water, the other third is covered by Ed Reid.
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Like that. That is what I think of when I
think of Ed Reid. Got to compete against him from
a very young age at my rookie year, and that's
when we were going. They were coming and beating us
in Foxboro. We were battling them in the AFC Championship.
You remember those early years we battled him. That was
like our Denver in the back of our career where
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we were going playing the toughest, you know what I mean.
It just was always a battle, and Ed Reid was
just a very unpredictable dude to try to get a
beat on. He bade a qbs in the mistakes all
the time, all the time, all the time. You ever
meet him.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I never met Ed Reid, No, never have man good
because I really never met him on the field either,
which is a good thing. I played my rookie year,
but I really didn't play that much versus Baltimore Ravens
my rookie year, probably twenty thirty plays. I never really
had a chance to match up with him, and then
he was kind of onto the next teams, like those
irrelevant years on those teams of just not really playing
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versus some But I just remember him in the heyday though,
which was good. I'm glad that his heyday was before
my heyday because I probably wouldn't have had a heyday
then if there's had Reed still in his heyday when
I was there.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But just what I really loved about him was just
his range.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, he was a guesser and he baited quarterbacks and
the mistakes, but also he bait him in the mistakes
and then have that range to cover that mistake that
the quarterback is making. Yeah, he would get you to
throw that deep ball and act like he was out
of coverage, but he was so fast and athletic he
would go and get that deep ball and make that interception.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You want to know how good ad Reid was, how
calm jeueles, how good he was.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What ad time I have to do in the playoffs
in twenty eleven in that AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What did he have to do? Because that read was
just that guy. I remember he used to have to
put in his on his wristband because you know, for
extended plays sometimes if you had to check with me,
you'd have a lengthy verbiage thing. So we put it
on there. Yeah, I bet you he remember he had
the reminder that said fine number twenty because he was
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just that big of a focal point of that defense
he was, you know what I mean, that's how much
it wasn't just fine number twenty, It was fine.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Number twenty on every play, every locato, and throw the
ball the other way?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It what didn't say throw the ball any way? But
you gotta find him.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yep, you gotta find him. You gotta know where he is.
You got a base to playoff of him. You gotta
alert it, you gotta lerner aar. When Tom's doing that,
that means he doesn't like where twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Is exactly without a doubt. And I remember plays where
Tom used to talk about, you know, he'd watch Ed
Reid and Ed Reid would be on the ground and
he's got like the deep third and he'd be on
the ground in the ball, lying on the ground like
a goddamn lion, and then get up and sprint back
there and go pick a ball like that's kind of instinct.
That he had. But what I loved about Ray also
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because early on my career I was a return I
was a special teamer, and whenever we played against the
Baltimore Ravens on all units, he was a fucking problem
on our punt return or our punt team. He had
the up and under on the field goal block. He
had the up and under like he used to block kicks,
scoop scores, he returned kicks for touchdowns. He just was
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an all around fucking unbelievable football player that young football
players need to watch and not try to emulate, because
not everyone can be Ed Reid. Not everyone can do that,
but like understand that, Like this dude's like a freak.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What would you say is the better safety between the
two ultimate safeties in the AFC North, Troy Polamolo or
Ad Reid?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's so hard. They're different players. I think of Ed
as more of a deep safety, like a free I
think of Paula Malu more of a like a strong safety.
So I think they're different. Both just electric football players
that you want to play with, Like I would love
to get to play with them because the amount of
practice against them that you would get, like it would
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make you a better football player, sure would. Iron sharpens
on what do you think? It depends on the scheme.
It depends on the defensive coach, what their mindset is.
Like you said, if you have a scheme where the
safeties you know, are blitzing more and making more plays
in the backfield and acting more.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Of like a linebacker, you got to go with Troy Polamalu.
But if you have a scheme where it's more about coverage,
you got to go with ad Reed, no doubt about it.
I mean, this guy could cover any part of the
field at any given time, even if.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
He's on one side.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
If he has one half of the field, he can
go to the other half and give help to the
safety once the ball is release so fast and just
so quick. And what's so great about him too, is
just as ball skills man. He would like tip that
ball to him like all the time for an interception
like and then wide receiver skills.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Post in or exception and he'd be throwing you throw
the ball back. They always you always had to be
alert for a lateral or remember he stole the ball
from his teammate to pick it when he was about
to fall down Out of players who didn't play for
coach Belichick, who do you think is on the mount
rushmore of guys that he loves? Because I for sure
ed Reed would be obviously Lawrence Taylor. We just talked
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we played for him, but that we didn't play that
we didn't play with What do you mean we didn't
like that coach that that didn't coach? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Maybe that so because he coached Lawrence Taylor. He coached
Lawrence Taylor's out of there, but he's still on there.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He's still he's still on the Lawrence Taylor all right,
I would say.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Ed Reed might might be number one. Then the guy
that Coach Belichick never coached, never dreamed of coaching.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Sorry, Devin mccordy, we got you back. You want to
rate dudes on dudes? Well, Coach Balichick love that, oh
got him. Who else would be on there? Who else
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did he love? Probably like a pun?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean, well, he coached Cam Newon. He loved Cam Newing.
I always talked about Cam Newing, you gotta contain him
in the pocket. But then he coached Cam Newon, So
that one doesn't really count, but it was him. Love
Peyton Manny, no doubt about it. Love another guy at
a legend played way back in the day, Jim Brown.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Bill Bill loved Jim Brown. He whenever that is, that
is such a good pool because anytime there'd be just
guys slap we'd be slap digging in the locker room
and Bill be coming in with his little fucking towel.
You know, you go to the treadmill with this binder
and his towel. You're going to watch some film on
the tread and guys be arguing about shit. You know,
Bill sometimes would say something. He'd be like, hey, you
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know what I mean? And I remember someone guys were
arguing about top top running backs of all time. Oh
it's this guy. It's this guy. I think he said,
Jim Brown. You guys don't know, fucking Jim Brown's best
football player. Like he loves Jim Brown, loves loves Jim Brown.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What about Ed Reid's you know college days, he was,
he was the guy at the U, like he exemplified
what the U was all about. Top hard and nose
football players that gave no damn, no damn out there
out on the field, gave it. They're all And this
just represents him in just one play. What you got
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jewels about that?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Miami versus Boston College two thousand and one. Miami was
up twelve seven late in the game and Boston College
was in the red zulue. Do you remember this play? Yeah,
one of the most famous college football players of all time.
He got deflected into what one of his defensive linemen,
ad Red, strips the ball from him and takes it
eighty yards to the house and they ended up winning
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eighteen to seven.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Flashy like their defense, Like just just fun flash playmaker. Yeah,
put it in. He's also like a speech giver. You know,
you look at this one speech. I'm sitting there. They're
up twenty one to three at halftime. He was pissed
at Miami's effort because they were like national champion hopes.
This is when the U is the freaking U. He
you go and and Ed Reid, I'm hurt. Don't ask
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me if I'm all right. I'm putting my heart in
this ship. Let's go, man. And what happened? They go
and blow him out forty nine and then what what happened?
End of the year? Lose the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They won the national championship BCS National Championship. That is
two thousand and one. The U was the you who
didn't love you.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's on the Mount Rushmore. You guys too, isn't he?
Ray Lewis m h I mean what what offensive guys?
Michael Irving gores there. Shocky, there's a couple. There's a
bunch of tight ends. What about Andre Johnson, Andre Johnson,
Reggie Wayne Warren sap oh man, this goes on that.
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I want to hear what people think. Who's on that
big vv? How can you forget about big Viude? Greg Ols?
I mean you when we were kids. Man, you know what.
I love the U. Dude.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I got an offer from the U to go play
tight end there. Yeah, I wasn't gonna go there. Was
was at the very and I just thought like I
was complete because I got the offer from the Like,
it just made me satisfied, like, yeah, I could play
at the U.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But I'm not going there, but I could play that
I got the offer. I was, you know, very happy,
but you when I was when I you know, when
you're in eighth grade and you do that thing where
you write a letter to yourself and then your teacher
saves it and then sends it to you and you're
a senior in high school. Mine's went along the lines
of something like this, like, it's good to see that
you're probably going to be signing your your commitment letter
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to University of Miami. I hope you enjoyed the sunshine.
I wanted to go to the U so bad. I
wrote to myself in eighth grade to fucking myself in
the future. And little that I know, I was ending
up at JUCO and yeah, I didn't didn't go to
the end. And then Kent. It was kind of it
was close to close because that was in yours. That
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was close. That was close. Run it up at Kent.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It was like that lot of we can't do the U,
but we can do the Kent, which is kind of
near Miami. But the Miami Ohio yea, yeah, So it
was never offered to go to Kent, and then you
would still you would still be in the junior college
right now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
To go beat beat you you manifest to play against
Joey Paul Mulo have manifested play against Miami of Ohio Baby.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Miami, Ohio grade school. My friend went there him twice
and let me tell you, we had a good time.
And my jersey is up on the wall and it
got stolen. It was right next to Big Ben's jersey.
Forgot the place we went to, oh Man Miami House.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I went Sean d it. I played against Sean McVay
when he went to Miami Ohio. He's that young. Yeah, no, no,
he's that young. He's both because he's the head coach.
I know, but he was a head coach ten years ago.
I think he got any twenty. What position did he play?
He was the receiver slot. He had a catch against us, Yeah,
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just one, though I don't really remember. Now, I guarantee
you remember me. That's what we're talking about, all right,
I let it go time. What kind of dude is
Edrie oh Man?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean, definitely a wizard, because you got to know
the game of football, especially on the defensive side of
the ball, in order to bait your quarterback into throwing
the ball so you.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Can go make an interception. But he's absolute dog too.
When he made that interception, brought it to the house,
stripping his.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Lineman in college, so he can go for an eighty
hour touchdown not returning as well as the most electric
returns in most yardage return in the NFL history.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Player, When you're the superstar on defense and you're still
playing in the kicking game, that's fucking dog. That's when
you know you're a legend. That's a dog. That's when
you know you're a football player. Is well, mental toughness,
always motivated. You knew that. You knew Ed Reid was motivated.
Heart and soul of the U. Well, I mean there's
so many hearts there. Yeah, yeah, there was so many hearts.
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But one of them one of the heart and souls
of the U. One of the heart and souls. So dogs, dog, dog,
stamping damp it dog. We'll start with former teammate of
mine on Inside the NFL Ray Lewis, scary s o B.
Let's see what AI has to say about him.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right, we got some dude synopsis here. Scariest dude
Number one is ray Lewis. Let's see what AI has
to say.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Let's ay, I gotta say.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Ray Lewis is widely regarded. Ray Lewis is widely regarded
as one of the greatest middle linebackers in NFL history,
known for his intense playing style and leadership on the
field and off the field, he overcame personal challenges and
became a motivational figure, often speaking about discipline and perseverance.
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Lewis had significant impact on the Baltimore Ravens, leading them
to two Super Bowl victories and earning the Super Bowl
MVP and two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wow Wow, I was twelve years old in two thousand
and one, Jules, how old were you about? Fifteen? Fourteen,
fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Notably, he is the only player in NFL history with
over forty career sacks and thirty interceptions instinct. Additionally, he
was a twelve time pro bowler and a two time
NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Ray Lewis for you,
ladies and gentlemen, brought to you by AI.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I think the AI is pretty right. I worked with
Ray as soon as I retired on inside the NFL,
and in those pre production meetings he would speak and
I felt like I wanted to run through a goddamn
brick wall. Every time he would speak. He sounded like
a pastor with the mix of craziness and a mix
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of a gladiator quote. Don't Ray, don't think I don't
know where your quotes come from. We went to Rome
together and I figured out that all of Ray's motivational
quotes come from the movie The Gladiator. It was crazy,
he's I remember playing him. He knocked me out of game.
First off, what game was that? And what year was
that he knocked you out of the game? It was
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Remember when Dion Branch came back for the first game back?
So about was it twenty thirteen or fourth year or
this year? This was like twenty twelve, eleven.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Or twelve, Yeah, it was two. Branch came back left
on the team on eleven. Yes, yes, two thousand time.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
My rookie year.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Randy Moss was traded after the fourth game of the season.
And then didn't we trade for We traded back for
Dion Branch right that year, So it was my rookie year.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
It was your rookie year.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, twenty ten, the same season that Randy Moss got traded.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, and he hit me on under in the red area,
and I remember hello, Di Nada like picking me up
and saying, hey, buddy, you're you're luck your sidelines that way.
That was.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That was at Chilotte Stadium at yes, and it was
twenty ten ten.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It was he lit me up and then the year before.
This is my second year in the league. Year before,
in the playoffs, he scored and I on a scramble
in the red area, Tom darted it to me. I
caught it in and I got a touchdown. And Ray
was right behind me, and he needed me so hard
in my left butt cheek that like I got a
(18:28):
crazy hematoma and I looked like I had j low
booty on more like my butt was just I had
one big butt. It was so fucking crazy. If we
would have we got smoked that game, but I wouldn't
have been able to play the next week because I
had like internal bleeding. It was fucking nuts. So that
dude has scared the shit out of me. What do
you think about? First off, A, I hit it, hit
(18:48):
it on point.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But they didn't, you know, talk about all his characteristics
that he brings to the table as well. Yes, a
great motivational speaker, great player, you know, all the accolades,
two time Super Bowl, chain apient whatever, twelve time pro bowler,
But they didn't talk about the characteristics that makes him
himself vicious out in the field, vicious, absolutely vicious, intimidating
(19:13):
one hundred percent. I would put my hand down, and
I was already scared of Ray Lewis when he was
lined up in front of me. I was when when
you're scared of a player, you're kind of already beat
as well. Just that's how intimidating he was. Just a
nature of just the way he carried himself and energy
that he brought to the table. You did not want
to mess with Ray Lewis, no doubt, no ants, ifs
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or butts about that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now. He was not just scary, but he was also
like one of the smartest football players you fucking played,
very intellectual it like we I remember we'd be in
a three by one, like a Trip's formation, and he'd
be sitting there calling out like all I watched this hook,
watch his hook like he'd be calling our plays and
he would I remember talking to when we worked together,
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and he would study all of our our TV copies
so he could hear Tom's signals, he could hear all
the line front signals. So anytime we would play the
Ravens with Ray, we kind of knew that he knew everything.
We had to change everything because he was such a smart,
hard working guy that did anything it took to fucking
go out and win a game. If that meant sitting
watching five hours of all the TV copies to just
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to get one little signal from something, That's what ray
Lewis was doing. And he was just he was fucking.
Like we look at middle linebackers now, middle linebackers are
two hundred and twenty five, two hundred and thirty pounds.
Ray Lewis was sidelined to sideline two fifty two fifty
doing war dances before the game, getting the whole city
(20:44):
of Baltimore some light. I mean, he was their first
first pick of that franchise. Like he set the stage
for what Baltimore has become. You know, Like what he
said in his things known for defense, tough team. You
know it's carried out throughout you know, Harbor Harboro inherited him,
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rose it to what it is now. But there are
tough fucking team. And ray Lewis was like the wardaddy
of the war daddies.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And he was the definition of a linebacker in the
NFL in the in the decade of the two thousand era,
no doubt about that. Big, strong, intimidating, fast, took no
shit at all.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
He was the defensive captain.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He was the guy in the huddle that got everyone
you know, in the right spots where they needed to be.
He was the one that was calling every single defensive player.
He was the absolute definition of a Mike linebacker, of
a middle linebacker. Mike linebacker is just a name for
the middle linebacker for all you people out there, So
Mike linebacker, middle linebacker, same exact thing, MLB. But he
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was the definition. He was the standard of strength, of speed,
of agility of a middle linebacker. And how giveness and
how instinctiveness intellectual, just how smart he was the a
build to know what plays were being called and how
to fill a gap as well. That I'm mother effort,
That mother effort knew how to fill a gap and
(22:09):
blow a gap up better than any linebacker.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
In the history of the game.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And he set the example to all young guys, all players,
all defensive players in high scoring college on how to
play the linebacker position in the game of football. There's
no doubt about that. And that was mean aggressive.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What else is there? Julian fucking instinctive, Yes, just all
of it. And once again I got to experience and
I got to be on a team, you know, with
Ray and the way he motivated guys like his stories
and like how he would you have to Like he
told me once we're doing inside the NFL, he goes,
you got to win the crowd to win your freedom.
(22:51):
I'm like, Ray, we're talking about football. We're not in
a goddamn We're not at the Colisseum right now. Okay,
I want to run through the wall, but we're not
hitting nobody. Yes, he would. He would say something and
I couldn't understand anything, but I got the point. Like
(23:11):
he would say something, I'm like, fuck, yeah, I don't.
Let's let's have the best fucking show. Let's have a show, right,
Like That's how Ray was, you know, and we we
uh we went and did this convention over in Croatia together,
and so I was like, great, let's you want to
(23:32):
go to Rome after with me? And so me and
Ray went to Rome and to watch him go. We
went to the coliseum for a day and it was
like watching a kid walk into a candy shop. When
he saw that Colisseum, like you could tell that it
was like ingrained in them. He was like, this is
where the men that I am used to perform in
(23:56):
the day of age of them. He said, something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
To me, like race in one of his past lives.
I bet you he was a gladiator in the Colisseum Er.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, hey, he I saw he He literally had a
single tear when he walked, and he saw just how
grand and old and how he was. You could see
him using his imagination for all the freaking fans and
stuff and guys ripping each other's goddamn heads off, and
it like he loved it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait a second, do you think he was one of
the gladiators back in the day or was he one
of those lions?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
No, he was, he was, he was, he both.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He he was lying heart, lying heart, but a gladiator.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, lion heart, lionheart like band damn. Can't disagree with that.
Have you ever been covered by him? I've been covered
by him a few times.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I mean, obviously his game was stopping the run, but
he was very smart in the zone coverage as well.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Hell of picks, yes, a lot of picks. I mean
what he has?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What thirty interceptions and over fifty sacks?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What was that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The only person, the only one to ever do it.
And you know he's just very athletic for his size too. Man,
his arms are just massive. It just looks like a
guy out of like a magazine cover, you know, just
straight off a magazine from front page cover, right off
the stands and just put on the football field.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Gladiator.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
He was a definition of what a guy and Madden
looks like. You know when you're playing the game, Matten,
you know you just got taken right out of the
video game and put right on the field.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But I got to clear up a little bit with
ray Lewis.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I mean the guy you know, back end of his
career when we were facing him, so we didn't really
get the true ray Lewis, just like all of us
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, he definitely let you up still.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But when you're in your prime prime, you're moving people,
no matter what the situation is, you're moving people.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You're blowing up the holes all that. So we didn't.
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I never got like leveled by ray Lewis. I definitely
felt his power. But here's a situation.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I was running.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This thing goes viral all over Instagram all the time
where it's a clip of me running over Ray Lewis.
But let me get this clear out there. I didn't
really like technically run over ray Lewis. I mean I
did in the clip, and people just take it out
of context because you know, on the film directly like
(26:20):
with you know, you just take that three seconds of
a clip and I am running over Ray Lewis. But
here's the deal. Here's the situation. It was a passing
play and I was on a route. He was dropping
back in the coverage, and I was debating. I had
an incut twelve yard incut, and I was debating because
he was dropping back, you know, doing his thing, trying
(26:41):
to making it hard on myself because you know, you know,
he's very smart of a player, knows how to drop
back and get you confused of where he's going, so
then it kind of throws you off your route. So
I'm like, do I go outside of him because he's
dropping out of my out of my zone, out out
of the area where I got to run the twelve
yard incut? Or is he going inside and I should
go inside? Or should I go outside of him? You
(27:02):
know what I'm trying to say. So I'm debating, and
I'm kind of stiff this game. You know, I'm just
running straight and I'm debated, shall go out?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Should I go in? Shl I go out, should I
go in?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And I'm running full speed at him, debating, and then boom,
I just clashed right into him. So he wasn't really
paying attention to me, and he was looking back at
the quarterback. But when I clashed right into him on
the passing route, he went flying backwards and I ran
him over. And then I like jumped up real quick
and acted like I was wide open, so like I
didn't really run him over. No, I didn't get a
(27:33):
catch either, So it was great coverage by him actually,
like to the t if you ask me, But it's
a clip where I'm like, no, it's like just taking
off context. I will tell you when I ran.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That sounds scary of a guy. He is is where
Rob over here ran his ass over. Okay, I don't
want to hear it right he got ran over.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
No, I didn't run him in coverage and I just
ran my route through him.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
He's trying to justify running him over and did not
make Ray mad at him. I don't want Ray mad
at me. Tell you that right now.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But I was just running my route and it went
through him and he was you know, he was on
his on his heels backing up back pedaling and using
his fly Yeah, he did go flying, but it was
not like a run player or anything. If that was
a run play and I blocked him like that, well
then that's off to me.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I would still go running.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I would still run to the other sideline because I'd
still be scared of Ray Lewis. But uh, I didn't
technically run him over. It was just a little mishap.
And Jules I got a question when he did that,
you know, the war dance running out of the tunnel,
the Baltimore fans going crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Did you ever watch one of those war dances every time?
Were you like looking the other way like Coach no, no, Belichick,
I'm not I'm not watching it because that's what Bill said.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, don't be paying attention to what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Just worry about what you're doing. But ray Lewis is
war dance. You had a peep, dude, that's that's a peak, dude.
You had to Coach Belichick had a Ravens weekend even
though he's be like, look, we're gonna be going to Baltimore.
We're gonna have Ray doing his goddamn fucking war dance. Like,
just get your heads right, get your heads right for
(29:07):
the game. We're all. You know he's gonna be doing
that war dance. You know he's referenced the war dance. Wait,
his war dance is called the squirrel dance. Ain't no
squirrel doing that?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, because Jewels, you're a squirrel, you ain't doing those
type of dances.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I never heard anyone even call it nice war dance dance.
It was started by his friends in his hometown. They
named it the squirrel dance because it had the whole
town jumping. I get it now, I know. But the
squirrel dance, you're the squirrel. Yeah, And I don't see
a squirrel looking that scary. No, squirrels are furry and cute. Kine,
(29:42):
it's and ugly. No, Ray looks like he wants to
bite your face off and do a war dance on
your face after it's been bit off.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
What about his vibe or overall Ray Lewis is or
I mean the visor, what the you know, the little
bands on his arm?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
All that just a scary player over scar in that
purple and black. That's just a mean looking team. It
is all right, all right, time, let's determine what kind
of duty is all right, ray Lewis. What kind of
dude is ray Lewis?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Is he a freak? Of course, he's a freak. I
mean he definitely has freak of nature in him. I
mean he's gigantic. He's a definition he's I mean of
a middle linebacker.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
He's a whizz as well. He was so innovative for
the sideline the sideline quarterback of the defense type linebacker.
I don't you know, I could be recency biased, but
this is what we grew up on. He's a dude's
dude as well.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean, positive attitude, the motivational speaking, getting everyone going,
bringing everyone together.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I mean he's special, man. That's special.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Just to have that, you know, in life, is to
just be able to motivate people and bring people together.
And on top of it, just being that phenomenal of
a football player. Man, That's what really made him special.
He had so many great characteristics that he brought to
a team, not just being a good player.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I think he's a dog. He's relentless, he's motivated, he's
physically and mentally tough. Dude. Tourres Tricep came back in
a fucking like four weeks for the game like he's
he doesn't care if he has something hanging on by
a thread, if it's a playoff game, or if it's
an AFC North Divisional game, or if it's a game
against US. You knew Ray Lewis was gonna be out
(31:24):
there doing his goddamn war dance before the game, getting
the whole fucking crowd going crazy. You know that's gonna
be what Ray does. And he's a fucking dog. He's
a dog. He is a dog.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
At anytime you're a dog, you get the job done.
And he got the job done every single time he
hit the field.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Let's go to our next game. I never messing with Ray.
Hell no, I'm gonna be best friends with him, and
he would love the shit out of you. Reason the
best teammate ever
Host
Julian Edelman
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