As the Carolina Panthers gain a Pro Bowl safety at a bargain price, Kansas City Chiefs fans lost their collective minds—for a variety of reasons.
The Carolina Panthers signed safety Eric Reid on Thursday to a contract that will cost Carolina between $1 million and $1.9 million in 2018. This answers a few questions for Kansas City Chiefs fans and prompted a few more—much to my dismay.
We now know that NFL franchises were, in fact, allowed to sign Reid, even as he has a lawsuit against the league, and we know that Reid would accept a deal—even one that pays him a base salary one-fifth of what Daniel Sorensen will make this year.
But Chiefs Twitter really hit the fan as some fans—extremely reasonably—took this news poorly. This week, Bashaud Breeland has signed with the Green Bay Packers, and now Reid has signed with Carolina. Two strange situations, no doubt, but that’s why they were still available in late September.
So why didn’t the Chiefs make a move for either defensive back? There are reasonable questions to be asked, and fair conversations to be had. However, a large portion of the people in my Twitter mentions (ahem, @jbbrisco) had no interest in either of those sane ways of going about it.
On this edition of the show, we talk extensively about the Chiefs’ decision to pass on Eric Reid and how some absurd and intellectually dishonest Twitter interactions nearly tossed me off the deep end.
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