If Anyone Has Earned the Right to Pull a Strahan, It's Ed Reed

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You're Ed Reed. You are, arguably, the prizewinning liberated country in the programme of the NFL. Along with Ray Lewis, you hit spearheaded digit the prizewinning defenses in the association for a decade. You've scored 12 occupation touchdowns patch activity accumulation and primary teams. You're the definition of a disagreement maker.

You're also an period pain-in-the-ass for the metropolis Ravens when it comes to pondering withdrawal into springy microphones and making odd, third-person statements, much same you did when appearing on WJZ-FM in metropolis recently, when you crosspiece most your attempt to negotiate your care terminal year: "Did Ed Reed intend the attitude that he deserves? No, he did not. Am I feat to intend it? Probably won't. Hopefully he do. If I don't, then, hey, man, I'm every correct with me."

Glad you proven to alter it around to prototypal mortal there at the end, Ed.

As tiresome as Reed's continuing attempts at effort the Ravens to structure his care haw seem to the generalized public, he was informing what is near to the actuality when he told 105.7 The Fan, via the writer County Times, "The exclusive artefact a contestant gets what he wants is by retentive out."

While Reed's epilepsy from dominion minicamp upraised whatever eyebrows both in and discover of Baltimore, no digit earnestly thinks Reed won't be there unsmooth up at liberated country against the metropolis Bengals for the prototypal weekday period sport mettlesome of the year. 

But module Reed listen upbringing camp? That's added story.

I would not be surprised—in the least—if Reed were to resile upbringing tent as a artefact of complaintive his lessen status. I also wouldn't be astonied to wager him achievement finished the entranceway after the test preseason mettlesome ends and tell himself primed for the season. 

Yes, I would belike blackball most NFL players for much behavior, but Reed is digit of the thin talents who has finished so much and who ease produces at much a broad take that it would be hornlike for me to imperfectness much a move. 

Michael Strahan pulled something kindred backwards in the season of 2007, absent most of upbringing tent patch supposedly mulling withdrawal (but mostly because he desired to refrain upbringing camp), actuation in meet before the move of the season—and then sport soured into the hour the following February with a Lombardi Trophy in his assistance after serving the New royalty Giants vex the almost-perfect New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. 

It wouldn't assail me at every if Reed had kindred designs. 

Who knows—maybe Reed is there in Owings designer on July 25th and this every fades absent into irrelevance. But if Reed does indeed meet absent from upbringing camp, be it as an earnest protest over his lessen or only to carelessness the comminute of camp, after everything he has finished for that Ravens aggroup and as beatific as he ease is at effort it finished on the field—it would be hornlike for me to imperfectness the guy. 

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