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Thread: Yay Ed Reed!
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01-03-2011, 01:55 AM #13
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
If our offense actually played up to its potential from week to week, Ed's many INTs would have even more impact.
For the mostpart, the team that wins the turnover battle wins the game and the Ravens are UNDEFEATED whenever Ed Reed has 2 INTs.
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01-03-2011, 11:49 AM #14
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
Yes, all of Reed's INTs are pure luck that the ball hit him in the hands. The guy leads the league in INT's while only playing 10 games. Luck...
Based on your determination of a good INT then 99% of interceptions are just being lucky and at the right spot at the right time.
-Derek
(posted in other thread but copied here)
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01-03-2011, 11:54 AM #15
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
Forget the fact that Ed in the short time he came off the PUP, he LED THE LEAGUE in interceptions.
Think about this. In 10 games, he had more interceptions than the next man down that played all 16.
How does that not make you elite?
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01-03-2011, 02:27 PM #16
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
What a strange thread.
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01-03-2011, 02:41 PM #17
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
No complaints here. I'll gladly take the turnovers regardless of whether it was smarts or athleticism or skills or plain dumb luck. I'm just happy that Reed managed to restrain himself from lateralling on two consecutive picks.
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01-03-2011, 02:50 PM #18
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01-03-2011, 02:50 PM #19
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Re: Yay Ed Reed!
Age has certainly slowed Reed down but I also think the fact that the guy is coming off of hip surgery needs to be considered. The fact that he's out there and able to do what he has so soon, says alot about how great he is.
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Re: Yay Ed Reed!
Anyone that thinks Ed Reed with a nerve impingement, coming off hip surgery and being 32 is close to being the player he used to be is crazy.
However equally as crazy is to say that his interceptions aren't as good as others cause he was just in the right place at the right time. Troy got a tipped pass for an INT yesterday. Was that INT any less of a great play cause he just cleaned up someones mess?
What kills me above all else is how someone would complain about INT's regardless of whether he is lucky, good, smart or just being in the right place at the right time. He may be older, not as fast but he still smart enough to be around the ball and I'll still take him and 10 picks in 10 games and not complain about it:grbac:
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01-03-2011, 03:34 PM #21
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
Ed was never perfect. He always gambled, and usually won.
Who is better? Answer that and you will sound so much like a stooley troll just trying to diminish or downplay the value of Ed Reed.
All this "he is lucky to get all his picks and is constantly failing and is not elite garbage" is ridiculous.
He is not what he used to be. He is still the best. Bottom line.
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01-03-2011, 05:05 PM #22
Re: Yay Ed Reed!
No it's not. Are you really arguing here that a QB throwing an INT like Sam Bradford threw last night - where he looked down his receiver who was perfectly covered and threw the ball straight to the defender - is an equally bad play to the QB that throws a ball and it bounces off their receiver's hands into a defender's - like say Flacco's one pass in the Giants game (I think last year) where it bounced straight off Mason?
C'mon, that's just not a realistic argument. They all count the same on the stat sheet, yes. And as I've already mentioned several times, there's skill in being in the right place at the right time to clean those balls up. But it's simply not accurate to insinuate that there can't be a difference in the quality of one type of play over another when one relies on pure skill and another relies on a lot of luck.
Yes.
I'm not sure where anyone got the idea I'm complaining about Reed getting an INT. Not once have I done that. I'm complaining about people who are using Ed Reed having a lot of picks this season as pretty much their only argument for why they think Reed is still either "elite" or "the best at his position." There's WAY more to it than that, and THAT'S what I am and have been arguing for the last few days. Some people either don't get that, or don't want to see it ("it" being what I'm arguing).
I've never, not once ever, argued anything different.
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