Quote:From my perspective, Ed Reed was the best NFL Safety since Ronnie Lott. There's absolutely no question on this end that Ed Reed deserves to be voted into the Pro Football HOF soon after he's eligible. I'm glad that Reed finally was on a Super Bowl winning team. When it comes to game changing impact plays on Defense and Special Teams, Reed was in an elite class.
You're absolutely right. Reed was a special playmaker. He was a legitimate threat to score every time he got the ball. I watched that guy torment the Bengals for a lot of years.
One of the best safeties that will ever play the game. He was an absolute "ball hawk."
Quote:Wait... there's two?
There are actually 72 of them, its just hard to decipher which one is which.
Quote:You're absolutely right. Reed was a special playmaker. He was a legitimate threat to score every time he got the ball. I watched that guy torment the Bengals for a lot of years.
One of the best safeties that will ever play the game. He was an absolute "ball hawk."
After reading your reply, what came to mind soon was the Bengals had to face twice every regular season arguably the 2 most impactful Safeties since Ronnie Lott: Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu. Even with the Bengals having a top notch WR most of the time in that time span with either Chad Johnson or A.J. Green, that was quite a task to play 1/4 of the season against Reed or Polamalu.
Quote: After reading your reply, what came to mind soon was the Bengals had to face twice every regular season arguably the 2 most impactful Safeties since Ronnie Lott: Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu. Even with the Bengals having a top notch WR most of the time in that time span with either Chad Johnson or A.J. Green, that was quite a task to play 1/4 of the season against Reed or Polamalu.
Yes, it was tough for them. Polumalu was Carson Palmer's worst nightmare for a while. He knew Palmer really well, they were college roommates at USC. He seemed to always get an INT or pick 6 from Palmer.
Reed was just a ball hawk. Although, the Bengals had pretty good success against the Ravens for a few years during that span, you could always count on Reed making a big play or 2.