Yeah, we thought if we got him drunk enough on the plane he would have just signed a lowball offer. And we would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddlesome agents and financial advisors! #TheMysteryMachine
stop but you are right max, i see where mr. clutch is coming from but you still put yourself at risk, but i think it only looks bad to houston fans. i don't think the red carpet treatment is making much national news as popular as reed is.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/adamschefter">adamschefter</a> Hmm maybe I should get in on some of this action</p>— EvilBobMcNair (@EvilBobMcNair) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvilBobMcNair/status/312982231062818816">March 16, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Wine him. Dine him. Fly him around on your private jet. Fine. But there's no need to flaunt it to the Twitter-verse unless you're confident he's signing which they shouldn't have been considering the gap that existed between what Reed wanted and what the Texans were offering. Maybe you're optimistic a deal will be worked out, but it shouldn't have been viewed as a sure thing which is kind of how the Texans were making it look with the way they were publicizing the visit. Now, if Reed does eventually sign here, this will all be forgotten. But if he doesn't, the Texans have egg on their face and it's all their own doing. It won't be because they couldn't get a deal done. It'll be because the they tried to make it a big ****ing deal and THEN couldn't get a deal done.
That's it right there. It wasn't that they brought him in to talk. That's great. It's that they kept tweeting about it...and Wade was tweeting about it...and they were posting pictures like my wife does from a bar on girls night out. It looks good when she does it, but when they do it it looks sad, if you don't close the deal. At some point in the middle of all of it, more than one of us were sure that they must have already reached a deal because there's no way they would have gone all out publicizing his visit the way they did.
Morey has done the same thing. First the iPad for Bosh, then wining and dining Dragic (with a twitpic). What do they lose really? Well, besides the egg on the face thing.
The NBA is different. A guy like Bosh counts for 20% of your starting lineup, so you go all out to sign him (especially in his prime). Ed Reed makes up only 9% of the defensive starters and 4.5% of the total starting lineup, plus he's past his prime (but still okay).
maybe they should have offered one of those leather letterman jackets. There must be a few lying around and hey, the national press seemed to report positively on those, no?
And that's still a source of ribbing on Morey, as evidenced by the 25 or so iPad jokes made in this thread so far.
Smith will replace Morey if this Jetting, boozing and dinning fails. Imagine the money spent on Reed so far? Jet fuel, dinner and drinks? I bet it's a lot less than $599
It doesn't bother me that they dined and wined him and didn't even get to first base. Who really cares about that stuff like other than the debbie downer fans who look for anything negative and who were probably against getting ed reed in the first place. It's like the whole "texans worthy" and how some radio dudes like to poke fun at the comment saying our organization won't take risks. Which is B.S . In truth, we have linebackers that moonlighted as walter white in their own dorm rooms and players that over train =), Along with players that embezzled money at the college level for tattoos and even some ninja assassins.
Rotoworld has Ozzie Newsome stating that the Ed Reed fiasco will be complete one way or another sometime this week. They speculate that Reed has given Baltimore the chance to match the Texans offer.
Texans should never be giving Reed the option to allow Baltimore to match. They should be looking elsewhere so Reed losses all of his leverage. The Texans negotiate like they battlefight on the field.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/spo...4360711.php?t=a477ff4bcecba496f0&t=a477ff4bce Pro Football Focus says Reed was the 59th best safety in the league last year...ranking him 19 places below Quin. They say his value should have him at $2million per season.
stop interjecting intelligence into a gm arguing for grasping at straws. the two are mutually exclusive arguments
