you are looking too much into it man. our team is filled with young, inexperienced players, and people we picked up off the street. Ray was basically saying to those guys "this is your situation and its [profanity deleted]ty, but understanding the situation you are in, and putting in the time by following, studying, and rallying around the experienced guys like flacco will only make you better and succeed in the long run". i have absolutely no idea how that can do any harm at all. if a player wasnt into it or paying attention, it still wont do "harm". again, no idea where you came up with that idea. mostly all those players mustve been listening and you can notice this simply by observing rays body language and tone increasing throughout the speech. it was a great motivational speech, but thats pretty much it. he wasnt throwing anybody under the bus at all or vice versa. and to think it was just a gimmick speech before a game (in regards to your second example) is flat out silly.