Jamal Lewis, long time Ravens running back and current Cleveland Brown, is making debut against his former this Sunday. He called Baltimore home his entire NFL career, since the Ravens drafted him with the #5 overall pick in 1999. He had a few good years here. He helped win the franchise's first and only Superbowl in 2000 and in 2003, he won Offensive Player of the Year while rushing for over 2000 yards.
Now he is on a team that is in state of rebuilding, but don't think that will stop him. This entire week Jamal Lewis and Ray Lewis have been talking smack back and forth. Jamal thinks he was slowly casted out as the Ravens offensive strategy was slowly changing philosophies as Jamal's style was slowly being fazed out of the offense. Jamal's recent decline in performace in Baltimore over the past few seasons could argueablly have been because of the offensive strategy or due to Jamal's body ailments, due to his bruiser-back style.
Reguardless, true Ravens fans should quietly be rooting for Jamal every Sunday. We should never forget what he had done for this franchise and this city. Jamal helped rebuild this football town after a stretch of being teamless and the early Ravens years when 6 win seasons were the norm. Without Jamal the Ravens wouldn't be where they are today. Go Jamal!
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I think this entry spoke to a lot of people who know Baltimore football and its history. i personally, think we should still have Jamal, so I was happy that the last line was "Go Jamal." I would have liked to to have seen some stats about Jamal's performance this year included in the entry.
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