Ray Lewis has clearly lost his mind. Whether you’re a New England Patriots fan or not, everyone acknowledges that Tom Brady is one of the best quarterbacks in the league and of all-time. Lewis seems to think otherwise and thinks we wouldn’t know who Brady was if it wasn’t for the infamous tuck rule.
Lewis told Stephen A. Smith on ESPN Radio that the Patriots getting the benefit of the infamous rule when Brady appeared to fumble in his first playoff start against the Raiders in January of 2002 is the reason he has a career today.
“When we — the first time we created something called a tuck rule, it’s the only reason we know — I’m just being honest —the only reason we know who Tom Brady is, because of a tuck rule,” Lewis said, via CBS Boston. “There’s no such thing as a tuck rule! If the ball is in your hand, and I knock it out your hand, whether it’s going backwards, forwards, lateral, sideways, however it’s coming out, that’s a freaking fumble! But guess what we created? We created a freaking tuck rule!”
Hearing Lewis say that the tuck rule is the only reason we know about a man who’s won three Super Bowls, has twice been named NFL MVP (including the first-ever unanimous MVP), has made 10 Pro Bowls, has three times been named the AFC Offensive Player of the Year, owns the best winning percentage of all time and has been the one constant on the field in arguably the longest sustained run of success any one team has endured in NFL history … Stephen A. Smith had to ask: Did you really just say that?
The two have had their run ins playing in the AFC but Lewis is a bit off his rocker.
