Ray Lewis Reveals How He Read Peyton Manning | Undeniable with Dan Patrick

Ray Lewis talks about playing against all-time legends Tom Brady & Peyton Manning, and how important finding their tells were in stopping them.
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[@Blackphillipsupporter]

Kid’s today have no idea how much of a pleasure it was to watch Ray, Peyton, and Tom go at each other

[@yupimawesome]

And Ed Reed

[@tomhanks1732]

Urlacher

[@michaeloverton2437]

​@yupimawesome especially him😊

[@kurryk3055]

Lmao you have no idea that your saying bs like did they play in the 1970s or sum 😹 you do realize they played in the 2000s rightt

[@JacaboBlanco]

And Ed Reed and Suggs. What a time that was

[@projoebiochem]

One time, someone asked Jeff Saturday why he didn’t snap the ball to catch guys that jumped offsides to get a penalty or a free play. Saturday’s response: “I couldn’t snap the ball. Peyton hadn’t called the play yet!”

[@shaneshonda]

​@@nilfuxkelce couldn't hold Saturdays jock strap

[@slimthugga1]

@@nilfuxwhat was even the point of saying that? lol

[@DepthFromAbove]

@@shaneshondaconsidering both are hall of famers. Yeah. He could.

[@WLJ1287]

@@DepthFromAbovemmmh debatable

[@DepthFromAbove]

@@WLJ1287 many consider Jason Kelce the best C of all time, so again, y’all the ones that need to go do your research.

[@CosbyKid]

I'll never get tired of hearing how cerebral these guys had to be on the field and then be athletic enough to go make the play.

[@666sk8erguy]

Seriously though

[@casteine]

Imagine how mentally exhausted Ray Lewis must've been after the game having to go through all that on almost every play.

[@dannylooney7348]

plus being an absolute beast. did you see when Ocho Cinco hit him?

[@Memebrain777]

ocho ran into a brick wall @@dannylooney7348

[@byDsign]

@@dannylooney7348 ... you mean when Ocho bounced off him? 🤣

[@adub103]

It wasnt it was second nature. Like playing madden basically.

[@amck72]

@@dannylooney7348 The Holiday Express has some really nice beds.

[@FandangoHoward]

This is exactly what the Pats did to Jared Goff in the Super Bowl. They'd be constantly shifting at the line, rotating safeties, never actually lining up in the "correct" formation until it was too late for Goff/McVay to change the play at the line. Absolute masterclass of defensive coaching and execution.

[@ronaldholmes1248]

Facts Goff didn't know who was rushing and who was backing off

[@damirrogers3484]

when people talk about brady having all them rings they never mention belichick defenses doing a BIG part in them rings

[@jcarson3721]

Uh, what? People mention it all the time.

[@victorfranca17]

Rams had no running back. Thats why they lost that sb. Pats always had killer defenses

[@iWubmusic]

Bill was great at that.

[@josephjohnson1057]

Any student of the game needs to see the Ravens '09 dismantling of the Patriots. A masterclass in studying an offense. It was like Belichick handed them the playbook. Before you knew it they were up 24-0 in Foxboro.

[@bellcranel8873]

You can tell that Ray Lewis would have to go into some extreme levels of detail and explanation to describe all the nuances of playing defensive linebacker. I don’t think it’s just the play clock, the clock is a huge factor to whether Peyton will audible or not. Ray determines whether it’s pass or run based off what formation the offense is, what the defense is showing, play clock, quarter, time left, the past 3 plays, and which offensive player is shaking in their boots because they might run into Ray Lewis.

[@lynskyrd]

this is why Tom Brady would play 'fast' at the line; ESPECIALLY against the Ravens. He didn't take the play clock down on every play. I'm assuming Peyton figured that out as well- get the 'real' play in at the top of the 40. Either way- this is fascinating. Much respect to 52.

[@zzzarkka]

Exactly why I love the sport.

[@kalel311superman9]

i loved watching ray and peyton compete against each other

[@bychen5011]

Bro’s hair looks like Creed from the Office when he thought he was about to be fired for being old

[@terencew7716]

I loved watching the matchups between Ray and Peyton

[@alexisgilmete9151]

I love watching and listening to these guys who are true professionals. They are true experts in their craft. Very inspiring. Amazing what we humans can do when we really focus and put in consistent work.

[@liversuccess1420]

There's a lot of thinking that goes into football. People see the physical side of it and think these guys are jocks. But it really is chess: quarterbacks calling plays, centers giving blocking assignments, middle linebackers looking for tells like Lewis talks about here, etc. And of course, coaches looking at formations and both coaches and players studying hours of game film.

[@Lukebarca]

This is why football is the ultimate sport.

[@jackgoff4859]

More ilke checkers in this case, there's nothing special or complicated about this, nor is it specific to Manning.

[@joshanderson8913]

Look at that.. a shitty troll doing a shitty troll job.

[@rjharrold2907]

@@jackgoff4859 It's only one small example

[@The_Zilli]

it was a pleasure watching that man play football.... we'll never see something like him again on the field.

[@paysonfox88]

So was the first half of JJ Watts career not good enough for you? 2014 where that defender nearly won the mvp, where he split votes with Aaron Rodgers? That was after Ray Lewis retired.

[@The_Zilli]

@@paysonfox88 Lewis is x12 ProBowl, 7x AllPro, 2x DPOY, 2x SB, 1x SB MVP compared to Watts 5x Pro Bowls, 5x AllPros. Watts needs to play another 6 years to match Lewis in terms of longevity, something I doubt he'll be able to do as a DE. Watts is also extremely inconsistent with 6 of his 10 years sporting double digit sack numbers with another 4 being very low single digits. And before you argue injuries robbed him during those years however i a lot of cases he wasn't even at 5 by the time he got injured at around the halfway mark of the season. Then here's the kicker - he made a total of 586 tackles for his entire career while Ray made 2059 and not only was the heart of the Ravens vaulted defense but was the "QB" of that defense. Back in the day when MLBs actually meant something. Yeah Watts is great and had he not had the injuries and what not, he could have been special but if you're trying to argue that he's better than Lewis, you're going to have to do better than that. In fact, despite what many may want to argue, I wouldnt be surprised if he doesnt get into the HoF on his first attempt due to the backlog. Brady will be available to enter the same year Watt is eligble. This isnt to say that he wont get in on his first try or that he's not a HoFer but rather that HoF voters may look at his injury history as one of those cases of someone being "really good for a really long time and could have been a HoFer had he not endured a 1/3rd of his career with injuries" type scenario. We've seen it happen and the NFL HoF is one of the tougher HoFs to get into so who knows.

[@c.r.chandler5905]

It's amazing listening to players like Ray, Shannon, etc, discuss dissecting the game when seconds count. Those who hate sports always talk about how athletes are dumb however there is no denying the intelligence in being able to read and decipher opposing players such as Brady or Manning.

[@RyanAlexanderBloom]

The way to trick manning was to show defense A, wait for him to actually move someone around or whatever he thought was the thing, then change to defense B, then wait for him to lock on the play at 10s, then just go right back to defense A. He couldn’t adjust again. Obviously sometimes you had to stay in B for the change up. But you could get him like a pitcher on the mound. The pattern of pitches was key. But I saw him get completely destroyed with that kind of thing a few times.

[@DevinJHiggins]

You may not like Ray Lewis, and being a lifelong Pats fan, I don't in the same way he didn't like Brady...but you've got to respect him as a player. That he studied enough to understand and anticipate what someone like Brady or Peyton was doing at the line, often in critical moments, combined with a ferocity in the vein of LT, Singletary, Deacon, Butkus, etc...that's what made him great.

[@keithsimon6241]

Noone likes tom or the pats yall got caught cheating how many times 7 or 8😅😅😅. Media can't mention it or they'll be kicked off tv. Shame shame.

[@keithsimon6241]

Cheater cheater pumpkin eaters. Pats got caught cheating 7 or 8 times. Noone outside of the media or new England respects them

[@DevinJHiggins]

@@herpes69 Last I saw, we've still got six Lombardis in the case, regardless of how '07 went. You couldn't make me cry on your best day.

[@leonknight558]

Ray Lewis cheated the integrity of the game by using that illegal deer antler spray.

[@keithsimon6241]

@@leonknight558 alleged the reporter that said that tried it 2 years prior. Plus it's not illegal to use. Next

[@robcarney7597]

The part some commenters are missing is that this matters because Peyton said fake plays to make the defense adjust one way, then would change again so the D was on their heels for the snap

[@djallen16]

Enjoy his honesty

[@SupermanHopkins]

Man painted on his beard, sideburns AND his fade. 😂

[@kev792]

It wasn’t this bad a couple years ago. I swear he paints it more and more 😂😂😂😂

[@ZealKingdom]

He looked like he went to the Springfield bowling alley and polished his head in the Shine-O Ball-O.

[@michaelowusu5368]

Absolute madness

[@Winterwood44]

I swear the comments section in KZbin is undefeated. Lol

[@phinsup402]

I finished watching the video thinking wow cool stories and how interesting to right after reading the comment section in it turn into and unstoppable laughter 😂😂😂

[@marcusjohnson6412]

It’s just phenomenal to hear this legend Ray Lewis give you a piece of his football mind. It’s hearing a genius of an art breakdown all of the details and intricacies that build the perfection. Just Phenomenal.

[@brand88]

This is brilliant ❤

[@user-zf3zq6zd8d]

As an athlete long ago Ray is a very smart football player. ALLdetails matter and yes there is always tells.

[@chriscook3899]

I wish i could sit in a room with Ray, Payton and Tom so i could listen to them talk.

[@rickgoss3256]

Ray best linebacker ever

[@deacosta1861]

Ray You went across the Planet

[@snapperl]

Seems like this dude should be a coach

[@stardust1621]

He would make an amazing defensive coordinator or linebackers coach with that impressive mindset.

[@dadadrew]

The Great Ray Lewis

[@deacosta1861]

Thank You

[@derrickgl]

This is intense bro

[@michaelgault2555]

A Beast!

[@bobbywilhelmi9932]

listening to a literal genius break down his thought processes and me actually understanding what’s being said is quite the feeling for me right now 🙂

[@The_Dude02]

Goat LB.

[@pound4pound380]

This is why I love football. Everything is strategy. Everyone is trying to get the edge. I figured Payton was doing bluff calls that entire time. I just didn't know it was that simple. He literally just called his play in the last 15 seconds

[@t_c5266]

That's one thing people who say football is boring don't understand. The game isn't just when they snap the ball and run a play. For that entire 40 seconds it's a chess match. A game of wits. A guessing game. A game of chance. Hedged bets. Coverage choices. Etc. It's not just "get ball to other side and kick it" or "dribble to other side and shoot it"

[@kevinpower4835]

“Manning’s tell is he changes the play when he has time to”

[@brandocalrissian3294]

Right?! He's acting like every qb doesn't do that.

[@robcarney7597]

No. Manning’s tell is that when he’s calling things out and pointing, at 35 on the play clock, it’s just pretend calls purposely trying to throw the defense off for this play and later plays

[@printezstroman]

Yeah, poker. That's Manning's bluff but Ray knew the tell.

[@bobbypinkston9374]

Manning was a master clock manager. He was one of the most vocal QBs ever to play and he used every second of clock to try and change the odds. Ray is just saying he figured out everything Payton said from 40-15 was useless.

[@justinthomas85]

​@printezstroman but Ray said he could tell everyone the tell... then never did...

[@yoitzdrew]

Ray was a killer on the field 💯

[@ramenman534]

Off the field as well

[@NaptownIndianimal]

@@ramenman534actually he witnessed a killing off the field. Research

[@ramenman534]

@@NaptownIndianimal cry

[@NaptownIndianimal]

@@ramenman534 cry about facts?

[@DeInevitable]

​@@ramenman534this

[@Jeff-lu9wi]

Wow such brilliance, he just revealed what every QB does anyway.

[@bend.7590]

“Peyton’s tell is that he can’t change his mind when there’s no time left on the clock to change his mind” What a defensive mastermind

[@nickvdk11]

Not a fair comment. Peyton couldve audible to ignore what he's saying in the last 15 seconds. Ray Lewis could've gone into detail more on how he knew it was a run or pass play or it was edited out in this video.

[@jjabost20]

Peyton's real play came in 15 seconds or less. The Ravens defense would disguise the coverage until then. comprehend better

[@armyaj]

@@nickvdk11makes sense too cuz the ravens would beat the pats but the colts and broncos would beat the ravens and the pats would beat Peyton

[@bend.7590]

@@jjabost20 Anyone with a brain cell in their body could figure that out. Comprehend better

[@peaceofmind6141]

We need Peyton and Ray in a chat

[@umainebearman]

He literally described every QB in the league from 2000 til now. That's not a tell Ray, that's common sense.

[@will1079]

That Beijing is wild. 😂

[@penvzila]

A sign of a good quarterback is you know exactly what he's going to do and he does it anyway

[@cooljohn6961]

Peyton Manning was amazing! He had the Ravens number for a lot of years. Really good matchups.

[@damewhin]

Ray got that mean spray on hair, Shout out ray tho

[@666sk8erguy]

That’s honestly fucking crazy dude. Most people that are that smart aren’t close to that athletic. And same usually goes vice versa. Guys like Ray Lewis and Tom Brady are super humans.

[@jimgray3346]

Ray Lewis so jacked and rich nobody can tell him about the hair paint

[@getsome418]

So which is it, run or pass?

[@iVibeBruh]

Unk been a *black spray demon* for a long time :D

[@NO-bw5dn]

Ray’s hair is something

[@konroh2]

Thanks, I needed that.

[@owdeezstrauz]

Couldn't help but notice he didn't answer the question.

[@Malthanos]

A good magician never reveals his secrets

[@colinforsecs3393]

Tom might be the GOAT but Peyton is the game's greatest pre snap read QB to ever play

[@AJSchnell]

As a kid these matchups were basically like watching God play God himself. Just The amount of different levels and intricacies going on at one time….. truly tremendous.

[@Shambley1]

Is rays hair painted on? When they showed the camera from the back you could see the shine off his head

[@johnnybraxton5539]

They need to have ray lewis commentant on Madden

[@DonVirgiValle]

His hair doe 😂

[@gasbasket7749]

Ray going hard on the Beijing

[@clintfrederici3928]

IS it just me or should Ray Lewis be a coach? Ray would be a killer NFL head coach.

[@zlinedavid]

I see what you did there. 😂

[@clintfrederici3928]

no no no I'm serious, I'd love for my team to have Ray as their head coach, for real. He was the ultimate general on defense and in my opinion the 2000 Ravens were the best defense ever.@@zlinedavid

[@azom28]

All jokes aside, he would be an amazing defensive coordinator

[@GFelix-jm4jj]

I can't read the rest of yourccomment the way you emphasized the word it. You dont have a real grasp on English lol

[@superbob24]

Brady Manning and Ray Lewis all coach a team together. Manning OC (he did more play calling than Brady), Brady (ultimate leader) HC, Lewis DC (ofc).

[@CS-wn2sz]

He's such a Raven that he painted his scalp black

[@itsatrap7215]

This sounds like a strategy to fool the defense, not a tell. From his explanation where was the tell on Peyton on what play he was going to do?

[@vincentwilliams2314]

The REAL play he calls at 15 seconds anything before that is a bluff in order to make the defense adjust and show what they are doing . And at the last second he’ll call the actual play to beat the defense you called .

[@kahlbutomacfarland]

This is the game I miss. That micromanaging coaches have murdered with kill calls and one read offenses. Manning and Brady were not the only ones doing this, nor did they invent it. They were just the best of their time doing it. So was Ray. Players aren’t allowed to play the game like this anymore outside of maybe an elite 3 at the top. Bad coaching has turned this chess into rock, paper, scissors.

[@pickenchews]

Yep

[@DetroitTyler]

Wish the league had more dawg MLBs. That late 90's 2000's era there were so many good MLBs in the league who could do so much. Now there are very few, as more teams go towards Nickel coverages etc. Bobby Wagner will most likely be the last great Tackle Machine whenever he hangs it up. Fred Warner is the most complete in today's game. But we aren't seeing the predictive reads close to as much with LBs absolutely blowing up plays as we used to.

[@jimlahey3919]

Peyton and Tom torched the ravens using Rays whole career haha

[@bernandoturner4840]

Lawrence Taylor lead the Giants..💪🏿

[@swishdipper4362]

Great player. But there were guys like Harry Carson, Carl Banks who weren’t getting in trouble off the field.

[@bernandoturner4840]

@@swishdipper4362 you know.! You know the Team.! Sports is soooooo wonderful how it brings Folk together.😀

[@Gigantor60]

Some teams play chess, and some play checkers

[@bufferover_flo4727]

So idk if he actually knew this while he played the game…. But what he’s saying is true because Peyton told Ray this in an interview a few years ago….

[@jessekauffman3336]

Ray Lewis and Brian Dawkins were leaders of their whole respective teams regardless of offense or defense.

[@christiancarino4931]

This is why football is just different.

[@kingleunitas5920]

That hair though, c'mon man!

[@aviecenna8579]

He looks like he has the same barber as Carlos Boozer

[@CorePathway]

Personal foul, #52, roughing the follicles. Half the distance to the hairline, repeat 3 rd down.

[@tyrone-qg6uu]

Future DC

[@big_flankster5106]

Bigen King 👑

[@austinking8004]

Good I miss Ray, Brady, Peyton and Ed Reed. Literally Brady was the last player from my childhood when I first started watching FB

[@clintonfreed412]

Even i would watch the Patriots play games and call if it was a run or pass. My kids used to ask how i knew? Well i don't know how i knew except i guess i watched Tom Brady play a lot of football?

[@mr.d3bonair37]

It’s something about Peyton that these guys don’t like because they always try to shade his legacy. He is the goat

[@johnnybraxton5539]

Peyton is the Doctor strange of quarterbacks

[@GynJitsuRonin]

That's his timing. Didn't hear anything about the tell...

[@df4480]

I hated Rey Lewis as a player for beating my Oilers/Titans with Steve McNair and Eddie George. After he gave a speech for Steve McNair funeral.. I respect Rey Lewis now.

[@Jameywells777]

Has everyone forgotten that Ray Lewis killed a Man in Atlanta ????

[@John117M63]

What if he calls the play at 30 seconds 😮

[@Achillez_Heal]

Peyton makes dummy calls to get the defense to show their hand. Any player that moves, whether they run or get close to the line of scrimmage or start back pedaling, petyon will adjust the play. He baits them hard counts during the early seconds of the play while running a no huddle offense. The Ravens has been expose during the early years of this match up but later adapted schematically to what ray described. Just show base alignment and at the last moments get into the call.

[@Freightorious]

1:11 i try to predict the play presnap and odds etc. Annoys entry level watchers

[@EF-vm7wi]

What in the Carlos Boozing hell is up with Rays head?

[@babybison2881]

Ray has that Carlos Boozer hair. Crazy how Ray acted like he discovered some huge tell when it was a big nothing burger. Laws of probabilities could have told you the play he called at 30 seconds wasn't going to be the same at 10 seconds.

[@deacosta1861]

So did I

[@paulk5311]

looking at peyton's stats against the ravens they look pretty good. 9-2 w/l record, 25 td's 6 int's, 3114 yards so it looks like the vaulted ravens d did not give peyton much trouble at all.

[@ryerob4815]

A lot of those years the offense was trash. Can't hold up all game. But we had Brady's number. Us and the Giants where a thorn in his side. Brady had Payton, Payton had Ray, Ray had Brady.

[@jamesbrady8264]

Easy with the hair spray Ray

[@atSlickBoiChris]

Ray had that paint caked on 😂

[@spadelane27]

He know Brady and beliCHEAT was cheaters.. He always said Manning was his toughest challenge

[@AzharMalik-yc4hk]

C--- Lewis

[@omegakilo871]

Peyton knew what every players on D was doing and what play they were running, until he got to the playoffs and SBs and he had no clue what so ever. For Peyton it was mostly a cadence, educate yourself people, Peyton didn’t know much but how to throw a ball

[@phajejekly8922]

Nowadays these NFL kids just call their plays at the 40 sec mark and Just stand around until DELAYED OF GAME 😂😂😂

[@markandrus8879]

Guess I don't understand the game because saying his tell is waiting until the play clock runs low doesn't mean squat to me. Wouldn't a Pop Warner defense know that?

[@brandocalrissian3294]

Yeah, this was dumb.

[@markandrus8879]

@@brandocalrissian3294 Thought it was just me. Figured I was missing something. Maybe Ray is a 'less talking, more doing' kind of guy.

[@IanPeon]

I wonder if he mentions Roethlisberger in this interview, who proved to be more than just a little difficult to win against.

[@billquantrill4960]

Should have asked Ray Ray what became of the white suit?

[@daviddunn773]

I hate my self im a Murder !!!

[@masbells9793]

THE U

[@bofa83]

he has his "hair" painted on.

[@RandomGuy285]

Idk if that really counts as a tell. So you know Peyton is bluffing about changing the play some of the time. But its not like you knew what they were running to start with anyway.

[@aaronhoang6507]

Ray Lewis tell is when he’s capping, he will say something that works for any QB scenario 😂

[@mc8135]

Ray lewis shoes, anybody have an idea what they are? They look good

[@BigDic69-jv1bz]

Payton said i had whole room in my house just for watching your moves and studying the ravens my wife was jealous ray was like damn 😂

[@GridironStuds]

Two dudes playing Madden in real life. LOL