Ray Lewis last week said Joe Flacco lacks passion.
Flacco brushed it aside.
Now, Lewis is backtracking.
“I’m a Raven for life, but Joe Flacco, what I was talking about, my brother, it wasn’t even about you,” Lewis said. “It wasn’t even personal. It was just me being frustrated of watching something that I had control over for so many years, which was men and inspiring them to go on and do things. And guess what, like everybody else, I lashed out at the quarterback, because quote, unquote, that’s the person who is supposed to carry us or do whatever. Brother, your personality is what it is. You’re a man, and you put your pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else. Listen, from a man, you’ll never hear it again. Sorry, for ever even calling out your name in the context of making you try to be anything that I am or anything that you’re not.”
The key wording here, is “control”. Essentially, Lewis is still saying he believes that his form of preaching and leadership is better than Flacco’s.
It was a passive aggressive apology at best, but it is clear he thinks his way was the better way.
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