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11-19-2019 02:59 PM |
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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
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You'd have to be on crack to think he wouldn't have been a huge difference over Jordan Lucas vs NE. We lost the game by inches.
But for shame, he advocated for his good friend over a backup qb who hasn't been playing well.
I really don't care if we extended Reid. But it was a flat out mistake not to sign him last year. And we know damn well why and it wasn't because the Chiefs predicted he'd throw a future backup qb under the bus on the off chance mahomes got injured.
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Eric Reid is ABYSMAL in coverage.
Are we really talking about the same player? He's among the worst coverage safeties in the league. I reiterate, Daniel Sorensen is a better safety than Eric Reid. Reid has a whopping 4 interceptions in his last 60+ starts dating back to 2015. Mathieu, OTOH, has 12 and 43. Sorensen, in a fraction of the snaps, has 6 and 18 PDs in all of 18 starts in that period of time. Reid is a SHITTY coverage safety. Absolute garbage in space. No, I am not overstating it - he sucks at it.
But even if he'd have been a slight upgrade in 2018, so would a couple dozen other guys who wouldn't have carried his baggage and were available who we didn't get.
You say "it's obvious why we didn't sign him" yet we didn't sign Trey Boston. We didn't even sign Mathieu. There were a BUNCH of safeties we didn't sign last year who would have been an upgrade so just how is it 'obvious' that his activism is why we didn't sign him? We didn't sign him because we didn't expect the defensive secondary to be an abortion.
And when you start to just hand-waive what he did with Allen then your argument simply lacks any meaning. What he did was the highest form of 'shitty teammate' that exists. It was truly trash and is ample evidence that this is not a guy you want in a lockerroom, especially not if things are going poorly.
And Jordan Lucas wasn't the problem against NE, nor was Sorensen (who you noticeably didn't include and who was who he'd have been replacing in that lineup). It was Eric Berry. And no, Reid/Sutton wouldn't have replaced Berry with Reid in that lineup. If anyone came out it would've been Dirty Dan and he played one of the best games of his career that day.
So yeah, I can easily say that Reid wouldn't have made a difference in the AFCCG - he would have taken our best Safety off the field in all likelihood.
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