like former Lions guard T.J. Lang<\/a>, have pointed out that it would not make sense for Raymond to lay an intentional chip block there anyways. On a screen play, you want the edge rusher to run up field, and by blocking him, you\u2019re only putting him in a better position to make the play. Raymond wouldn\u2019t go into schematic details of the play, but said if you look close enough, you can see his intentions.<\/p>\n\u201cIf you look at the rest of the play, I\u2019m trying to get out of the way because some guy is coming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most frustrating part about the public backlash to Raymond\u2019s actions was that he tried to make it right on the field. After hearing Van Ginkel complain about the play on the field, Raymond sought out the Vikings defender after the game to explain himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrazy thing is I actually talked to him after the game. I made a point to go say something to him after the game, just because it wasn\u2019t intentional,\u201d Raymond said. \u201cHe seemed to be mad about, so I was like, \u2018Hey, man, it was unintentional,\u2019 and stuff like that. He seemed to be very receptive of it at the time. So it\u2019s interesting that all this stuff is coming out now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Raymond wants people to know that he is not the kind of person seeking out cheap shots.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not playing the game to hurt nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lions and Vikings will face off again on Christmas Day in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone who knows Kalif Raymond knows he would stay as far away from controversy as possible, yet his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4992,4993,349,99],"class_list":["post-278769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-quotes","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278769","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=278769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}