Ray Lewis doesn’t think much of Joe Flacco’s passion for football, but a former teammate has Flacco’s back. Former Ravens linebacker Bart Scott, now an analyst for CBS, slammed Lewis for telling Fox Sports 1 that Flacco lacked passion for the game.
At one time, Scott and Lewis were both teammates with the Ravens’ starting quarterback.
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“How many times are they going to keep letting Ray Lewis off the hook?” Scott said on CBS Sports Radio’s Gio and Jones. “He already dissed Ray Rice when Ray went through his situation. Now he’s dissing Flacco? Come on, man. You got that ring on your finger because of Flacco. See, that’s what I don’t like. You’re either with me or you’re not. If you’re a teammate, you’ve never heard me say nothing bad about Ray Rice, nothing bad of Flacco. Come on, man. That’s brother-on-brother crime right there. He’s supposed to be better than that. He’s supposed to be from the old school. You never come out publicly against one of your boys. Come on, man, you’re killing me.”
Flacco lacking hunger for football is something that Scott didn’t see when they played together during Flacco’s rookie season in 2008.
“Joe Flacco was a great teammate,” Scott continued during the CBS Sports radio interview. “He was a great rookie. C’mon Ray. You’re supposed to be better than that. You’re supposed to be from the old school. You’re supposed to be the people that set the rules on how to be a great teammate. This is what happens. You get on the other side, and you got something to say, right? You got to say something because you got to make a splash. People put pressure on you to make a splash. When the Ray Rice situation came out, (media) tried to make me go against my brother – and I wouldn’t, and it shocked them. But that’s what teammates do, because that’s family. You don’t come out against your brother. You got an issue with his leadership skills and all that stuff, you go talk to him. That’s what real men do. You don’t do that. That’s whack right there, Ray.”
Flacco admitted Friday that he was surprised by Lewis’ comments, probably feeling blindsided by a former teammate. At least Flacco knows not all former Ravens linebackers agree with Lewis.
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