Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis sounded off on the New York Jets Thursday, suggesting the team boasts too much for a team with no recent hardware. In speaking with the Baltimore and New York media prior to Monday night’s season-opener against Rex Ryan‘s squad, Lewis said there are teams they should be more worried about.

“The bottom line is — and I’m going to be very careful with this — we’re talking about the Jets like we’re talking about the Saints,” Lewis said. “That’s the Super Bowl champs. Until they play tonight, that’s the only people that can be dethroned — Drew Brees and the Saints, not Mark Sanchez and the Jets.

“All of this ‘We’re the Miami Heat of football.’ If you’re the Miami Heat, we got to be the Lakers. We’re aiming for multiple rings. But you listen to all this yap, yap, yap, the bottom line is you got to buckle up your chin straps.”

Lewis advised the Jets and Ryan to only talk a big game if they can back it up.

“The game ain’t played through tongues,” Lewis said. “The game is played when you buckle up your chin strap. So all this pressure that [Ryan] put on his team? I hope they can cash the check that he’s writing. . . . [T]he bottom line is there ain’t no man over there that’s just gonna flat-out whoop me, so I’m good with that part of it.”

Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson responded to Lewis’ remarks, saying, “I’m going to cash any check. Written. Said. We’re going to cash it. Just part of being confident.”

4 Comments for “Ray Lewis calls out Mark Sanchez and Jets, LaDainian Tomlinson responds”

1. Patrick Says:
   September 10th, 2010 at 1:50 am

   Love it. Ray is saying what every team in the league is thinking. Playoffs aside, everyone seems to forget that at the end of the day the Jets were pretty much a 7 and 9 team. The only reason they made it into the playoffs was because the last two games of the season they were playing teams with all there starters sitting on the bench. Cant wait to see the jets start 0-2. Eat um up Ray!!!

2. Roger Says:
   September 10th, 2010 at 10:15 am

   I didn’t see teams laying down in the playoffs. The Jets got to the AFC Championship for a reason. If they were that bad a team, shouldn’t they have been bounced in the wild-card?

3. Wil Says:
   September 10th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

   I think Patrick is talking about weeks 15 and 16 where Manning didn’t play and the Bengals didn’t scheme because they were meeting up in the first game of the post season. Obviously that plan didn’t work out for the Bengals. Ironically enough, even the Jets had lost even one of those games, it would have been the Texans in the playoffs instead.

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