Eric Reid

[Bartin]

2 minutes ago, Pandora's Box said:

Nope...what did Reid do in that game again?

Well all of the calls went our way in that one and Reid didn’t really do anything bad or good in that game because they mostly played underneath with him playing deep safety.

[Lords0fPain]

2 minutes ago, bull123 said:

Don’t know about that...but we definitely got hosed today

yet, the refs handed us the giants game...which is it...I would think the PR would, be we get MORE calls going OUR way...after all that helps the NFL's case...right?

[Pandora's Box]

1 minute ago, bull123 said:

Don’t know about that...but we definitely got hosed today

Yes we did...unfortunately...

[Icege]

2 hours ago, Pandora's Box said:

Solid how?  He gave up one Redskins TD...

You say gave up, I say the Skins made a great playcall to take advantage of the team likely going into cover 3 before Alex Smith created extra space in the seam for Davis with his eyes by looking towards Reed to drift Reid towards him

[Pandora's Box]

2 minutes ago, Icege said:

You say gave up, I say the Skins made a great playcall to take advantage of the team likely going into cover 3 before Alex Smith created extra space in the seam for Davis with his eyes by looking towards Reed to drift Reid towards him

As a veteran safety, he should have known better...

[t96]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

He's still in transition, though with that said he's also a veteran so you wouldn't expect the transition to take as long as it might if he were a younger player.

Regardless, people really did have some unrealistic expectations for him when he signed.  And frankly, not just for Reid himself.

Our defense this year is bad, quite possibly very bad. And the reality is that we weren't one safety away from being great when Reid was brought on, but apparently a number of folks believed we were.

He was supposedly keeping himself in game shape when we signed him and then he had a bye and now 2 weeks to get up to speed. As a veteran at a position that is pretty transferrable across teams too, that is just unacceptable. I was happy with the signing but after seeing his play, and all his interviews being about his social justice stuff it really doesn't seem like he's focused at all on winning football games and just needed the paycheck and a renewed platform for media to listen to him. Looking like a total bust of a signing, but I'll give him time.

[Snake]

3 hours ago, Pandora's Box said:

That's the problem right there, politics do not belong in sports...

Shhhhh or you're going to get banned for making sense. Social justice doesn't like that. 

[Snake]

2 minutes ago, t96 said:

He was supposedly keeping himself in game shape when we signed him and then he had a bye and now 2 weeks to get up to speed. As a veteran at a position that is pretty transferrable across teams too, that is just unacceptable. I was happy with the signing but after seeing his play, and all his interviews being about his social justice stuff it really doesn't seem like he's focused at all on winning football games and just needed the paycheck and a renewed platform for media to listen to him. Looking like a total bust of a signing, but I'll give him time.

He's a bit better than Colin(ours) but I see why people weren't throwing money at him. 

[Mr. Scot]

27 minutes ago, t96 said:

He was supposedly keeping himself in game shape when we signed him and then he had a bye and now 2 weeks to get up to speed. As a veteran at a position that is pretty transferrable across teams too, that is just unacceptable. I was happy with the signing but after seeing his play, and all his interviews being about his social justice stuff it really doesn't seem like he's focused at all on winning football games and just needed the paycheck and a renewed platform for media to listen to him. Looking like a total bust of a signing, but I'll give him time.

I'd probably wait a few more weeks before I'd be ready to say anything.

He certainly hasn't been spectacular so far, but I wouldn't say he's been horrible either. He's just kind of there.

Ultimately for me though, the biggest mistake was people underestimating just how bad our defense was. People were talking Super Bowl and acting like the signing of Reid made us go from top ten to top five. The reality so far has been that it might have taken us from being really bad to not quite as bad, though even that might be generous.

About the only thing I feel comfortable definitively saying is that we're better then we would be if Colin Jones was starting.

Still pretty bad, though...

[Icege]

40 minutes ago, Pandora's Box said:

As a veteran safety, he should have known better...

He should have known that Davis was going to release untouched and the LBs were going to get sucked in on the fake by AP?

Reed even feinted a slant while Smith was locked on to him. That was a great play by the Skins and not a bad play by Reid imo.

[ickmule]

50 minutes ago, t96 said:

He was supposedly keeping himself in game shape when we signed him and then he had a bye and now 2 weeks to get up to speed. As a veteran at a position that is pretty transferrable across teams too, that is just unacceptable. I was happy with the signing but after seeing his play, and all his interviews being about his social justice stuff it really doesn't seem like he's focused at all on winning football games and just needed the paycheck and a renewed platform for media to listen to him. Looking like a total bust of a signing, but I'll give him time.

I said it weeks ago, the dude is a cancer and will divide the locker room.  I actually think it’s already happened.  It only human nature, there are guys in the locker room that don’t agree and others that do, it’s going to divide it no matter what you think.  

[CatTower]

5 minutes ago, ickmule said:

I said it weeks ago, the dude is a cancer and will divide the locker room.  I actually think it’s already happened.  It only human nature, there are guys in the locker room that don’t agree and others that do, it’s going to divide it no matter what you think.  

Yes, I agree.  He is using NFL games as his podium which is naturally going to be distracting.  If he really cared about the matter, he'd make his stance off the field and not in the lockerroom.  If a reporter asks him about something controversial, he should just decline and say he is a Carolina Panther and will only answer questions about the team.  He is not the focus of this team and is not even a great starter so by him trying to make a point when the rest of the team is focused on the game at hand, it's going to hurt us.

[Toolbox]

3 minutes ago, ickmule said:

I said it weeks ago, the dude is a cancer and will divide the locker room.  I actually think it’s already happened.  It only human nature, there are guys in the locker room that don’t agree and others that do, it’s going to divide it no matter what you think.  

He is a massive hypocrite.. he said he wouldn't kneel and cause controversy and find other more productive ways to protest... so much for that huh reid?

[ickmule]

3 minutes ago, Toolbox said:

He is a massive hypocrite.. he said he wouldn't kneel and cause controversy and find other more productive ways to protest... so much for that huh reid?

Makes me question anyone that was behind this signing.  Honestly I’m not convinced it wasn’t Tepper and I will question how great of an owner he may or may not be until proven one way or the other..