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Ravens defensive Timmy Jernigan was startled by the response he got from Warren Sapp, after his plan to change jersey numbers was met by a bizarre rebuke by the Hall of Famer.

But now, Jernigan just wants to get about being a member of the Ravens.

“I’m going to be the bigger person,” Jernigan said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com. “He says what he wants to. He can feel what he wants to. At the end of the day, it’s all good. All I’m worried about is winning football games here in Baltimore.”

Jernigan said he wanted to honor Sapp by wearing his jersey number, but Sapp apparently deemed him unworthy since he didn’t return phone calls, going on a bit of a diatribe about the history of the game (with himself, of course, at the center).

But Jernigan took the rant in stride.

“Every now and then, you come across those type of people in life,” Jernigan said. “I just can’t worry about that. I’m not worried about that guy. I’m not changing my number. And if you don’t want it to be about him, it doesn’t have to. At the end of the day, it’s just a number.”

While Sapp may think Jernigan was being disrespectful, the Ravens lineman has at least figured out not to wallow around in the mud with Sapp, who seems uniquely qualified and comfortable there.