MCGINN........."RAY LEWIS ALMOST A PACKER""

[Bretsky]

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/ravens-lewis-went-a-pick-too-soon-for-packers-308j3sf-189135481.html

[mraynrand]

It's good to see the JS is committed to recycling

[Joemailman]

Yeah well, John Michels has as many Super Bowl rings as Ray Lewis. So there.

[Fritz]

How could Ron Wolf be so stupidly confident that the Ravens wouldn't take Lewis? A guy is not your guy until you've handed the commish your card and it's your pick, right?

And if they loved, loved, loved Lewis so much, why not move up? I wonder if they tried to or could have? It doesn't sound like Wolf did.

[Guiness]

How could Ron Wolf be so stupidly confident that the Ravens wouldn't take Lewis? A guy is not your guy until you've handed the commish your card and it's your pick, right?

And if they loved, loved, loved Lewis so much, why not move up? I wonder if they tried to or could have? It doesn't sound like Wolf did.

Why is it stupid? He let the draft come to him instead of doing a Sherman-esq jump up in the draft to get a player he'd decided he could not do without. Not like Lewis was a sure thing, at that time, he was just a guy they liked.

[pbmax]

I would like to know why he thought Lewis would slide by. What did he think they needed to do? Because the Ravens version of this story is that they wanted a LB in round 1 (after getting Ogden in the top ten) and Newsome had been resisting the urge to trade up. Lewis was the last LB they had on their board with a 1st round grade.