| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
canucks9314
Joined: 31 Dec 2009
Posts: 967
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Flaccomania
Joined: 12 Aug 2008
Posts: 21344
Location: Parkville, MD
|
 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:54 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
|
Meh, I still think it's up in the air. Even if he were thinking about retiring, he wouldn't steal the spotlight from Ray.
But if he does want to stay, I would think the Ravens let him test the FA waters. He really dropped off this past season, and likely won't want simply a modest contract. I'm sure we'd like to keep him at the right price, but aren't going to overpay just because he's Ed Reed.
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
canucks9314
Joined: 31 Dec 2009
Posts: 967
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Flaccomania wrote: | Meh, I still think it's up in the air. Even if he were thinking about retiring, he wouldn't steal the spotlight from Ray.
But if he does want to stay, I would think the Ravens let him test the FA waters. He really dropped off this past season, and likely won't want simply a modest contract. I'm sure we'd like to keep him at the right price, but aren't going to overpay just because he's Ed Reed. |
Has he been injured or just old age?
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
GeneralTso
Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 7212
Location: Props to Rase on Sig
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
Replacing both Lewis and Reed in one offseason isn't easy, even if their play has dropped off. If Ed had this in mind, good for him.
_________________
| james.mcmurry13 wrote: | | Yeah, [Mike] Wallace would be like 4th fastest on the Raiders. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
TheVillain112
Joined: 19 Feb 2010
Posts: 16033
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
How I feel as a Bengals fan reading this news:
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
GaTechRavens
Joined: 25 Nov 2006
Posts: 17491
Location: Madison, WI
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
| TheVillain112 wrote: | How I feel as a Bengals fan reading this news:
|
He won't be playing for us.
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DontTazeMeBro
Joined: 20 Jan 2008
Posts: 25172
Location: 321
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
Good. He is still a playmaker and I think at his age we'll be the best offer and get him back.
_________________
Free Ray Rice |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
TomRalph
Joined: 03 Apr 2009
Posts: 9995
Location: Revis Island
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
He's gonna be a Pat.
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
SnA ExclusiVe
Joined: 01 Jun 2011
Posts: 20145
Location: Spokane, WA
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
| canucks9314 wrote: | | Flaccomania wrote: | Meh, I still think it's up in the air. Even if he were thinking about retiring, he wouldn't steal the spotlight from Ray.
But if he does want to stay, I would think the Ravens let him test the FA waters. He really dropped off this past season, and likely won't want simply a modest contract. I'm sure we'd like to keep him at the right price, but aren't going to overpay just because he's Ed Reed. |
Has he been injured or just old age? |
Combination of both.
_________________
| BlaqOptic wrote: | | I'd say he's [Dennis Pitta] the fourth best TE in the division... Cameron > Miller > Gresham > Eiffert = Pitta |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Flaccomania
Joined: 12 Aug 2008
Posts: 21344
Location: Parkville, MD
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
| canucks9314 wrote: | | Flaccomania wrote: | Meh, I still think it's up in the air. Even if he were thinking about retiring, he wouldn't steal the spotlight from Ray.
But if he does want to stay, I would think the Ravens let him test the FA waters. He really dropped off this past season, and likely won't want simply a modest contract. I'm sure we'd like to keep him at the right price, but aren't going to overpay just because he's Ed Reed. |
Has he been injured or just old age? |
Both. He has his neck injury which he's been dealing with for years now, and then he had some shoulder injury (IIRC) that's been nagging him which affects his tackling, or lackthereof.
His age has caught up to him a bit in that when he gambles, he can't recover as quickly. More times than I want to remember this season he was a step or two late in getting over to a guy because he thought he read something different. There was another game not too long ago, might have been the Giants game, where Ed was assigned a gap at the goal line, but bounced outside because he thought he saw something and the RB had a free ride to the endzone. He came off the field angry at himself and from the replays you could see him at that hole, but then jumping elsewhere leaving it exposed.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
EliteTexan80
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
Posts: 38123
Location: Three time Mr. fanTASTic!
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
Reminder: If you're going to start up a thread, just posting a link is not what we want. Provide a link, 1-2 lines from the story, as well as YOUR view on the topic at hand.
Thanks. 
- ET
_________________
iPwn, Kempes and Flaccomania: The official sig makers for THE ET80! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BaltimoreTerp
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 28829
Location: Washington, DC
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
| TomRalph wrote: | | He's gonna be a Pat. |
If we lose in the SB, maybe. But New England is used to taking in ring-chasers on the cheap, and if Ed leaves Baltimore it's going to be because he's looking to get paid; I don't know how much New England is going to be willing to pony up.
Still not completely convinced that if we win the SB he doesn't call it quits, but if he does come back and does leave Baltimore, I think the leader in the clubhouse will be the Colts with the Pagano connection. Saints and Pats are the other two teams I could see him signing with.
It's going to really suck seeing him in another uniform if that's what it comes down to. Him in a Pats uniform would be mortifying. Personally, I think his reputation and corresponding ability to take away the deep ball is a huge value in itself even if he's not picking off a lot of balls, and that we should try to find the room to bring him back if he doesn't retire, but a lot of that hinges on what Joe's cap number looks like.
_________________
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
RainbowCarebear
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Posts: 34442
Location: "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
Surprised. Thought he would retire for soon.
_________________
"Do you imagine Whoresbane loves you any better? If you did not hold the ..., he would pull out your entrails and make you eat them"
"In return, we swore that we should always be their men" |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sp6488
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 8455
Location: MD
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
| GaTechRavens wrote: | | TheVillain112 wrote: | How I feel as a Bengals fan reading this news:
|
He won't be playing for us. |
I don't think that's for certain at all. I could definitely see us giving him a better deal than anyone else would be willing to offer, especially since that would still likely make his cap number go DOWN next season.
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
spiritoftruth
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
Posts: 2165
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
I would hate to see Ed Reed in anything but purple and black. But as far as potential suitors go, he would be great for a team with a talented secondary but an open spot at safety. The Cowboys for example. Reed's great at coaching up secondary players.
_________________
| NextBigThing wrote: | | I am a Patriots fan, I know all about excellence. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
