Ray Lewis did something that I don't see often enough in football -- when he tackles, notice that he wraps them up. By locking the arms around the runner, and angling the impact upward, it knocks them off balance so they can't escape. It's like a wrestling move from WWE. In my semi-pro days I tackled just like that: Drive up , impact, wrap and drop. I was a nose tackle, so I didn't get a lot of opportunities, but -- try coming into the middle and --- NOPE. I made the team due to train wrecks. As long as paysonfox in the middle, the runner would have to bounce outside. Another thing -- Ray Lewis didn't often give up on a play. When someone was actually able to block him, he tried to contribute even then. My response when I found myself getting driven back by larger guys was to drop, tangle the legs, or shift directions to make as large a pile with max chaos as possible. Even Pyrrhic losses are acceptable. Lewis almost never gave up.
3-4 defence; Deacon Jones, Mean Joe Greene, Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Ray Lewis, Patrick Willis, Derrick Brooks. No way the running back wouldn't come out of this game without a broken everything
Man I love Ray Lewis, one of the greatest linebackers ever. Only the second linebacker in NFL history to win Super Bowl MVP. The only linebacker to win the award on the winning team! Only missing 3 Pro Bowls throughout his entire career. The fastest player to join the 30/30 club (30 interceptions/30 sacks) and the ONLY member of the 30/40 club. The 2000 Baltimore Ravens and Super Bowl winners can boast that they had thee best defense ever, posting 4 shut outs and only allowing 1 TD in the SB.
Ray uses perfect rugby tackling technique. Hit with the shoulder, wrap with the arms and drive with the legs. I think that the baseball player had better technique for generating force though, so imagine if Ray used it on the dummies head. That would be vicious
I like Ray :Lewis as a hopeless Vikings fan. Vikings will never win anything, but at least I can call myself a true football fanatic for loving Ray Lewis. If he'd dated Rihanna, she would have written instead "I love the way you hit"
So would I, to be honest. The biggest problem is the rule sets that were in palce in each players' careers... Sonny Bill played when defenses were allowed to do a lot more, thus I believe that Ray is a fundamentally a better player because he has to be more sound in his hits and techniques. Just my opinion though.
@Smugly44 actually look at his head position after each tackle after 2:00 there all different so there different hits only spotted that now, true thought he does were different gloves
@Spuddfluff The forces have already been determined to be much different. It doesn't take away from Rugby. What those who don't undersand American football never take into account that the tackler has on pads too, which takes away any hesitation, making for much higher forces.
Yes. Not to mention players are less balanced on ice then football players are on the turf. This doesn't mean anything as far how hard the hits are but it's worth noting that the frigid tempatures of an ice rink and the harder surfaces add to the sting.
