Punk Move!

"Yeah I know bruh!"

Growing up in the ghetto trains you to see things that most people completely miss. You learn early on that bullies always go the path of least resistance when they're looking to take advantage of someone. When I was a kid, gangsta's would just walk up to boyz and reach into their pockets, take their money and keep going no questions asked. They called that hittin' an easy lick. However, they wouldn't walk up on someone that they knew was willing to fight for what belonged to them. Keep in mind, the bully never wanted to fight they just wanted the money.

Well, Baltimore Ravens All-Pro safety Ed Reed hit an easy lick on Tuesday when he called out his quarterback Joe Flacco in an interview with SiriusXM Radio. Reed said “Flacco was kind of rattled a little bit” on Sunday against the Houston Texans.

“They had a lot of guys in the bo on him and they were giving it to him. I think a couple of times he needed to get rid of the ball. It just didn’t look like he had a hold on the offense,” Reed said. “I don’t know how much of that was the play-calling… but it just didn’t look like he had a hold on the offense, you know, of times past. It was just kind of like they [were] telling him [what] to do-throw the ball or get it here, you know, get it to certain guys.”

Don't get me wrong! My problem isn't with what he said, it's with who he said it to. That was a straight up punk move on Ed Reed's part. He called Flacco out because he knew that he wasn't going to fight for what belonged to him, his dignity. Let's keep it real and all the way 100 because they both showed up at the same time on this one! Reed wouldn't have called out Michael Vick, Vince Young or Donovan McNabb. He sure wouldn't have called out Ray Lewis or some one like Brain Urlacher because his collar would have gotten wrinkled with the quickness.

Even if he felt that way he shouldn't have gone on the air and blasted his teammate in the middle of  playoff run. There's no way he would have done it if Flacco had the capacity to move some furniture around I can tell you that. It doesn't matter who can whoop who because we all know that you've just got be able to throw the first punch. There are enough guys picking sides that they'll either jump in or break it up. Like I said before, the bully just wants to bully. They aren't really trying to fight bruh!

As crazy as T.O. was he didn't call out Donovan until after the Super Bowl! Yeah they had riffs during the season on the sidelines but it didn't go out into the media until after the season. Then the media kept it going into the next season until T.O. was released from the Eagles. Why? Because T.O. was smart enough to know that his locker would have gotten crowded if he would have opened his mouth. Regardless of who can win the fight the bully doesn't want to HAVE to throw hands.

Ed Reed knew when he made his comments that Flacco would respond just the way he did. "When I first saw it, I was like: 'What's going on?,' " Flacco said. "Like I said, we talked about it. We're a team around here. It's not that big of an issue. I really don't take things that bad. It's Ed. It is what it is."

Interpretation: "I'm really afraid to fight for mine and if he wants my lunch money he can have it. As a matter of fact, if he wants my girl he can have her too." In my Ochocinco voice, "CHILD PLEASE!" A real cat would have turned the locker room inside out. Then they would have been cool but not until then bruh.

All I've got to say is, don't put your money on the Ravens this weekend bruh! They've got a soft quarterback, a traitor for a safety and divided locker room. Ed Reed's my guy but he was wrong on this one. He may as well have knocked the nerd’s books out of his hand, pushed him in the forehead and dipped his finger in his apple sauce with that one bruh. Hey Ed, Flacco does wear the same uniform that you do! That means you're supposed to keep boyz from bothering HIM in the streets. You may as well have beat your kid brother up in front of the hood and laughed at him in front of the fella's. Family business stays at the crib even if it's true bruh!

They don't even need to waste their time going to Foxboro. They're already 21 points down and Tom Brady and company are in the red zone threatening as we speak. Great job Ed, you just shook an already unstable quarterback and took whatever confidence he had out of his pocket. Just do your exit interviews now and save us all the hassle of watching you guys get blasted this weekend.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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