Appearing with our good friends LaVar Arrington and Chad Dukes of 106.7 the Fan, white Lewis jerseys shared his views on Haynesworth's situation.
"Your days of long suffering, of pain, of working out and countless hours of suffering, they're for a reason," Lewis said, via Dan Steinberg of D.C. Sports Bog. "To fulfill a legacy, chasing something. And nowadays, where everything gets this dispute here, and I don't want to do this, I don't want to do that. See, when I was coming up, we didn't have that choice, to tell an adult -- no matter who it was -- what we weren't gonna do."
So how would Lewis respond in a similar situation?
"I mean, I don't have to create a response," supply Lewis jerseys said. "The response is, whatever you want me to do, coach. Let's get it done. If you want to switch the defense because you think it'll work better in a 3-4 -- I played in a 4-3 my whole life, but we switched up to a 3-4.
"OK, Ray, you're gonna have to take on more guards, you're gonna have to do this and that.
"OK, coach, I'll adjust. Do I like it? Hmm, nah. But I'll adjust, so let's do it, you know what I'm saying? And through that process, I won the defensive player of the year in the 4-3 in 2000, and in 2003 I came back and won the defensive player of the year in the 3-4. So it don't matter. Bottom line. Bottom line. Football is football, man . . . .
"No matter what the scheme is, y'all work together as businessmen to get it done. Because that's ultimately what it is, it's a business, so let's come to work and let's work together to figure this out. OK, what best fits you? OK, well, let's go to this sometimes, and then sometimes you don't like it, then we'll switch back to a 4-3, so play with that. But all of this? No, too much. Too much."
Though Ray acknowledges that he had concerns regarding the 3-4, he overlooks the magnitude of those concerns -- as demonstrated when he welcomed with open arms the shift to a 46 defense after defensive coordinator Mike Nolan left to become head coach of the cheap 49ers jerseys.
"That's like telling your premier running back that you're going to make sure he's not going to be touched in a football game," sale Lewis jerseys told SI.com in 2005 (via Zennie Abraham's City Brights blog at SFGate.com). "To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator tell me I'm not going to be touched, I'm like a little kid all over again. . . . It's tough, because you have to humble yourself and take coaching and do whatever they tell you to do. Whether it takes away from your game or helps it, you just deal with it. That's what I did. It didn't alter how I prepared, it didn't alter my passion for the game. But at the same time, it alters how dominant I can be."
Though Abraham believes that Lewis' comments from 2005 when compared to his more recent remarks constitute hypocrisy, we're not quite ready to apply that label. Lewis didn't like the 3-4, but he showed up for work and didn't demand a trade. Haynesworth doesn't like the 3-4, and he's not showing up and wants out. Still, the glee Lewis demonstrated when the 3-4 -- and the frustration that from time to time bubbled up before that (we couldn't find the links, but we remember it) -- paint a somewhat different picture.
Again, it's not yet hypocrisy from discount Lewis jerseys. But it's close.
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