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"You Don't Control A Missile" - Ray Lewis SLAMS NFL's Helmet-to-Helmet Hysteria

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Ray Lewis opens up about why today’s rules and transfer culture make coaching tough, his mentorship under Mike Singletary, and his views on targeting penalties. He also shares stories of loyalty, brutal hits, and his bond with Chad Johnson, who once asked Ray to send him Bible verses before games.

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0:00.0

You don't think so. You would entertain college? Would you entertain college?

0:05.6

I'll entertain anything when it comes to the game. I like, I just, I'm just listening. A part of it for me is maybe, and by the way, for the people that are watching this, if you got questions, you can Manette Ray, Ray's on Manette, then I'm sure it gets flooded with a bunch of messages. Rob, let's make sure we put the link somewhere around here.

0:22.8

But, you know, for me, it's, to explain it the way you explain it in a form of science, defense,

0:33.3

if you did, let's just say you did get a team, and a team allowed you to give you the controls. Yeah. And you know how you had the rule, which was what? Give me the first 15 plays. If I don't screw it up, I'll take your plays, right? And you were able to do that for 11 years, you said, right? Give a take. All right. So coach, let me, you know, let me do the thing, Marvin, and I'll do what I'm doing with defense. Okay, great.

0:56.7

You know, hey, let me do the thing, Marvin, and I'll do what I'm doing with defense.

0:55.8

Okay, great.

0:56.7

You know, hey, don't talk to me like that. Please, if you're going to do this, this is my story. What if you find a team and a team says, whatever you want to do with defense, do it your way. We'll give you three years. But you can't. Why not? because you can't tell somebody to go punch him in the mouth

1:11.3

and don't

1:12.0

care about what comes next in college. You kicking kids out from making what you call targeting.

1:19.6

That's not a target. A target is something that's not on the field that you target and you just,

1:25.9

that does not supposed to be a part of that no hell

1:29.7

no i am built to do that don't penalize me got it and then kick me out of the game and then tell me

1:38.5

i can't come back for the second half either are you freaking kidding me you're doing that the kids

1:43.1

for making a play. Do this homework

1:47.6

if you don't do nothing else. Every kid that's been kicked out of a game, tell me how many

1:55.2

made it to the league. It's their only chance. Some of them are, it's their only chance some of them are it's their only chance pee and you take away the physicality of football

2:07.8

and you tell me i'm sitting in a spot too many times and this is the narrative now oh that's a terrible

2:17.0

player he's too aggressive p i don't know what that mean and this is the narrative now. Oh, that's a terrible player.

2:17.9

He's too aggressive.

2:20.2

P, I don't know what that means.

2:22.4

I don't know what that means.

2:24.1

So as a coach, you think somebody like Nick Saban and walk away if that was the same?

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