Shannon Sharpe and Ray Lewis respond to Jamal Adams' comments on CTE | UNDISPUTED 

Do you have a problem with Jamal Adams' comments?

Shannon give yourself credit. Not being great in school doesn't mean you're dumb. You're a good thinker

whenever Ray Lewis talks, he talks like he's in the huddle

Funny how Ray Lewis talks about safety lol. Him and Ed Reed damn near killed RBs and WRs😂😂😂😂😂

Skip stepping in to stop Shannon talking about his intelligence is a true friendship moment. Say what you want about Skip, but he really put his neck out there to get Shannon on the show & that’s true character.

1000% agree with Shannon.

I’m a firefighter, I know the risk of the job and I know that every time I go to work I could get hurt or die. Knowing that I will continue to make that choice because I love the job.

skip is suffering from CTE everytime he debate about tebow and lebron lol

Did skip compliment Shannon? Where's the real skip what have you done with him 😂😂

Jamal Adams is a class act, and driven. Passionate about this game and his team. Jets Nation is as fortunate as it gets to have this man. Mr. Adams, you deserve nothing but respect and we Jets fans thank you for everything you’ve done for us this season.

Wow thank you Skip, didn’t let Shannon downplay himself like that.

Came back to this after Hamlin incident remember Adams saying this

Ray Lewis gets on TV & lets the CTE do the talking.

Shannon is better than Steven A and Skip Bayless 🔥 spits fire

An NFL player who has probably sacrificed more than we could imagine just to get to the league doesn't have a problem dying on the very platform on which he does what he has always loved and dreamed to do. Sounds like a exceptional man to me.

Joy is better than molly..

Skip is a good person 👌🏾💯

There is also a lot of players who say they wont do it again. Being old and having issues versus 40-60 is very VERY different.

I love their passion.

Shannon has that old man life experience and knowledge which makes you smart. This is particularly funny about shannon because he's not an old man

It's not just dying, it's losing your mind before doing so. And the debilitating diseases didn't happen at 45, but 85, in the nursing home.

5:51- classic Shannon meme

I knew I loved this guy pure animal

One of the most interesting and awesome convos between the 3. Love it.. Shannon Sharpe your a intelligent. So is Ray Lewis. Smart is being book smart. Things you can learn from books. Intelligence you are born with something you can't coach or learn.. Its how you are and how you decipher things naturally. Things you can naturally do or think that you dont learn in a books.

Thank you Skip. Shannon is smarter than he gives himself credit for.

The more Ray Lewis talks, the more i realize that he isn't saying anything.

I don't care what anyone says. Ray Lewis is my all time favorite player. Such a great person

Completely agree with Adams

I LOVE Football. No matter the risk your Passion and Love for the game will never change if you truly love it.

Shannon is a genius, I’ve seen him quoting movies before this show he’s extremely smart

No problem with what he said, some don't understand that "Hunger" for change your life opportunities, the ability to change the course of your family's history, wasn't good enough to play College but I have worked very hard to change my families future....#WarriorMentality #ModernDayGladiators

People put their body and lives on the line everyday for a lot less!

That's like a person joining the military you know what you're getting into when you sign up

Ray lewis and Shannon sharp are very inspiring

This is why I love football. I wasn't born with super athlete football skills but if I was I would think the same way. There is more to football than just tackling. It's a sport of friendship, cohesiveness, and coming together. No superbowl winner has won without having 53 of 53 possible players buying into their system and doing whatever they can to win. Jamal feels thankful to have this opportunity to play in the NFL (although he didnt get there by luck; he is a fantastic player) and these comments show he doesnt want to waste it.

Jamal Adams is bringing toughness to football, and the sponsors will not like that.

He doesn’t mean it literally I think what he’s trying too say is he’s forever grateful what the game has given him

I went to Kathleen HighSchool like Ray Lewis did, and most of the football team felt this deeply about playing football, Lakeland Florida is one of the best cities in the best state for football, Something everybody has been doing since 1sr grade there. I played basketball and half the team was dual athletes.

Yooooo that’s wild

Can we trade Ray Lewis and Michael Vick both in for Skip and Bill Simmons.

I'll liken to see Shannon and ray in the show together more cause they be dropping facts

I seen the 18 wheeler in the Walmart parking lot full of people not knowing it was full of people the night before they found it, I wish I knew... it’s insane and really sad. I just got reminded 2019 :(

All that is fine and dandy to say now until those headaches start kicking in until the voices start telling you harm yourself or someone else etc... hopefully for these players and the rest this unforgiving pain doesn’t creep into there lives then there singing a different tune

Mr. Sharpe is very well spoken and educated. Always enjoy his takes and perspectives on sports and social issues.

to quote Bodie from Point Break. It’s not tragic to die, doing something you love to do!!

Watching this 4 years later... Even though I totally disagree with 99 percent of what you say Shannon, you are just as smart and intelligent as you were athletic, and you were one of the best athletically. I will always argue your correctness in politics and sports but I can't argue with your intelligence.

I actually really liked skips war analogy for this topic

While I COMPLETELY DISAGREE with Shannon's refusal to use the term "Redskins", and I VERY RARELY AGREE with Skip, I agree with him here. Shannon is definitely a smart dude and is selling himself short.

That’s gotta be the nicest thing Skip has ever said to anyone

If doing what you love is dangerous and you love it with all your heart.... then its worth risking your life.

I broke bones to suffer a few concussions. But I chose to play football from little league to college. And I would do it again in heartbeat.

Shannon is intelligent man. Every time I watch this he always had a different response to what I originally think about any sports situation. He’s a pretty wise dude.

I love this SHOW!!!!!

"EVERYDAY!"

Cant help but respect a guy who says he is not the smartest guy in the world! I have the upmost respect for Shannon Sharpe

TBH I agree with jamal Adams because we all die one day so I rather die doing something I love 🙇🙏🏈🏆

When you get out of a situation you dont regress... you do anything to not regress.

In the first Point Break movie with Keanu Reeves..Body (Patrick Swayze)said..It's not tragic to die doing what you love..!!I feel the same way honestly!!

Shannon more than right when he talks about football

I mean when Shannon said that unless there’s a 100% chance of not getting CTE related diseases by not playing football he would of thought about it doesn’t make sense to me, I mean when looking at the numbers it’s pretty damn close to 100%

CTE starts early yes it's fun the Oklahoma drills high school backyard football clashing your Mtf over and over again

You’re not living unless you’re doing what you love. As simple as that, completely understand willing to die doing what you love.

This is why I love skip

Nobody: Shannon: SKIIUUPP

Shannon them blue marks on a white helmet woooo 😂🔥

JV football I was running back an interception and my homie our middle backer was lead blockin for me and it was just the QB in front of us and he leveled this kid so hard that my homies face mask caved in. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen 😂 the marks on the helmet talk reminded me of that

It's not the game itself it's the money you make playing the game...PERIOD

Jamal Adams is a Beast.

I had a classmate that passed from a hit/tackle from football on the field.🏈🏈😥😥

If u don't have anything you're willing to die for then u don't need to live

I’d never ask someone to die for their job and run themselves into the ground for any career but I also don’t really knock on this dude for saying if something happens, he’d be ok with it.

Skip: you're more book smart than you give yourself credit. Shannon: don't talk back to me skip!!!!!!

Man I got tackled and had a headache literally for three days, and I've never put equipment on since

the only reason players get some many concussions is because most players don't know how to tackle mostly corner backs that's why that position goes higher near the collar or shoulders

Still remember the pride in my helmet after games when it would be scarred and gouged up. Broken straps and all. Great times.

I mean I think dying doing anything you love is fine since your always putting your all into that activity

I do not have a problem because to some of these players this all they have so i have to agree with what he said

Shannon Sharpe, you are an extremely, highly intelligent man.

I think what maybe Shannon doesn't realize is that he's not really in a position to say whether he would make the same decision. Effects of CTE are late onset. When your not able to remember your name, or do basic activities, or remember your loved ones you might feel differently about the decision to play football. Other aspects of football, like breaking a leg, torn ligaments..those are immediate consequences that you can 1. be fixed typically, and 2. you can prepare better for in the future. But CTE isn't. Everytime you take a hit your contributing to your risk of CTE when you might not even know it. And you don't have a way to protect yourself from it moving forward, there's not specific exercises you can do to strengthen muscles to protect against it for example. Or different techniques...Playing football is the risk. Also there's currently 0 treatment. So once you have it's not going away. I also hope Shannon doesn't think that he had to play football to be successful. He's incredibly smart and thoughtful and could have done many other things. I also hope really hope he doesn't have CTE and that treatments do become available. Also the whole thing about chance...very few things create a 100% chance of something happening, there's always variation. But, I think the data is pretty clear on the massive risk of CTE from football. Would I stab myself in the head with a knife for 20 millions dollars knowing that it will greatly increase my risk of dying and debilitating mental disease knowing that if I didn't there's perhaps still a small chance I could get something like dementia?

Why dont they play the full clip instead of taking a small piece of what he said out of context

Ive come to this conclusion on CTE. As long as you know the risks of playing football, and are willing to keep playing for the love of the sport, if something happens to you dont blame it on the NFL. The facts are out now and you are well aware of the risks that go with it. Just like any other dangerous job you take on. You like what you do and the money that comes with it, except the risks that go with it. No one now can say that didn't know about CTE.

Jamal Adams sounds like a G

Shannon your extremely smart.

You assume a risk with almost any job you do.

When you have a love or a passion for something, you will be willing to die for it

0:52😭😭😭😭😭😭😭Wisk

Just media reaching for something. Dude just loves playing football and he understands the risk involved. Ppl are way too sensitive these days

I'm not book smart I'm Thank you lord smart!

Like Lamar Gary always says: "It is not if you die, or even when that counts,; but how you live and die will determine what you are."

I do not know much about organized football. My father would not let me play it so I took up soccer. I know some soccer players have CTE and maybe that fate will get me. But I do know how to make soccer safer and that is the reason for this post. Besides being a NCAA D1 player I was a coach - 40 years ago. And I played 10 years after college in various leagues. Now I would not have a team practice heading. Soccer should get rid of goal kicks, corner kicks, and goalie punts, where a ball travelling at a high rate of speed is headed. Maybe get rid of heading entirely like they do with kids. What can they do with football? Flag football for kids? Less contact in practice? When there is a legitimate test for CTE in the living they we have some decisions to make. I think it is going to be more common than we realize.

I like how one is seen as heroic for playing a "stupid game" with the probability of death or injury (sarcastically speaking) when compared to those who actually died for unpopular reasons...

Which is why football is the ultimate gladiator sport

Skip saying Shannon is smarter than he thinks. Shows how kind skip really is. Real dawg

Thanks for the recognition. Love the show. #AirborneAllTheWay #ArmyLife

Joy stays looking like a snack 😍 😍 😍

At the end of the day football is a choice, if you don't want to play because you are worried about the future. Another man will be right behind you ready to take that opportunity & take that chance.

I think ray lewis and shannon both have cte no one played that long in the NFL without having cte

Of course Ray likes the idea of death

People go through stress and depression everyday trying to pay their debts that are just as or just about as dangerous as playing football on the body and mind. Football players get paid millions doing what they love almost stress free so almost everyone would do that if they could to make a better life for themselves and their families.

Wait I thought CTE was a technology class in school 😂