Tom Brady Dishes Out Praise for Ray Lewis: 'The Ultimate Competitor'

Jaylin Noel dared to do something Tom Brady would've never done in the Houston Texans' blowout victory over the Baltimore Ravens. After scoring his first career touchdown, the Texans' rookie wide receiver did Ray Lewis' squirrel dance, upsetting members of the Ravens' defense. 

In the latest edition of "Storytime with Tom Brady," the seven-time Super Bowl winner shared how he strayed away from doing things like that against the Ravens during his career, specifically Lewis. 

"I was definitely never going to get anywhere close to Ray," Brady said of the Ravens' iconic linebacker. "He was a tough man. I never was going to pick any fights with anybody out there, but I was going to instigate something and get the hell out of the way before I got my ass kicked."

Brady and Lewis had a pretty fierce rivalry over their Hall of Fame careers. Lewis' Ravens were actually one of three teams (New York Giants, Denver Broncos) to beat Brady in the postseason on multiple occasions in his career. Brady did get the better of Lewis in the majority of their matchups, going 5-3. But Lewis went 1-2 against Brady in the postseason, with the Ravens' upset victory over the Patriots in the 2012 AFC Championship Game being the penultimate game of Lewis' career.

As Brady said that the Ravens were "one of the toughest organizations" that he had to play against during his 20-year career with the Patriots, he specifically pointed to Lewis as a reason why. 

"Ray was the ultimate competitor. He was the quarterback of the defense at linebacker and everything ran through him," Brady said. "So, you just knew that there was a chess match between what he was trying to get his defense to do and what we were trying to get our offense to do. He was such a