{"id":122219,"date":"2025-08-31T04:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122219\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:44:06","slug":"ray-lewis-is-shocked-by-shannon-sharpes-media-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122219\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lewis is “shocked” by Shannon Sharpe’s media persona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four years ago, Shannon Sharpe gave an impassioned \u2014 and unexpected \u2014 defense<\/a> of teammate Ray Lewis in advance of Super Bowl XXXV. More recently, Lewis gave and impassions \u2014 and unexpected \u2014 critique of Sharpe\u2019s media career. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised<\/a>,\u201d Lewis said on the PBD Podcast regarding Sharpe\u2019s success as a podcaster. \u201cI\u2019m shocked at his content. . . . I kind of started to watch him and then we kind of went our own separate ways, because I\u2019m like, \u2018You\u2019re gonna take that route? I can\u2019t go that route. Never can go that route.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What is \u2018that route\u2019?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat route is to become so worldly that you\u2019ve become popular because you\u2019re talking about ignorance,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cA lot of times a lot of these gossip conversations that they\u2019re having and bringing up all this stuff, I\u2019m not gonna do that to nobody. I\u2019m not in the business for that. I\u2019m in life to try to teach people what does it mean to be a better man or give back to the kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd a lot of times, like, and a lot of guys get in trouble with these podcasts and things, man, because everybody wants the follower. Everybody wants to be popular, Everybody wants to make money. But that\u2019s a tightrope into what you call influence and popularity. The devil has the ability to make you popular. God has the ability to give you influence that when people see you, they see an image of him. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s the thing for me that started to switch with not just Shannon, but just a couple of people. I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow, you will switch out like that? Really?\u2019 And I would never, ever. Why? Because of the respect that I have for my mother, my daughters, my granddaughters, life, period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think men, given these new platforms, we\u2019ve overrode what the platform is actually for. The platform is supposed to help somebody find a new direction. We don\u2019t help. Everybody\u2019s just gets on. Like everybody\u2019s talking now. Everybody got a podcast. Everybody is the new marriage coach. Everybody\u2019s the new relationship coach. And ain\u2019t nobody coaching themselves, because if you were coaching your yourself, when it says, \u2018Power of life and death is found in the tongue,\u2019 then go back and check out a couple of your episodes and ask yourself, \u2018Do you give life, or do you give death? And that\u2019s why me personally, yeah, I kind of do my own thing, Stay in my own lane.\u201d<\/p>\n

He exited that lane in a big way to share his views about his former teammate\u2019s media career. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Sharpe, who has plenty to say about plenty of things, will have anything to say about what Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-four years ago, Shannon Sharpe gave an impassioned \u2014 and unexpected \u2014 defense of teammate Ray Lewis in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-122219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}