Someone needs to convince Justin Reid to stop using Twitter

It seems that Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid needs to switch to an old flip phone or something that parents give to kids just for emergency calls.

If any single player should have learned any single lesson in the past week on the Kansas City Chiefs, it was safety Justin Reid. After all, any time an opponent beats you and then quotes your trash-talking efforts following the game, the takeaway should be clear to all: let your play do the talking.

Well, as it turns out, just two days after his team lost to the Cincinnati Bengals for the third time in a single year, Reid decided to return to Twitter to broadcast some more of his thoughts concerning the Chiefs-Bengals game and his performance on defense.

On Tuesday morning, Chiefs Kingdom woke up to the following (and subsequently wanted to go back to bed):

In case you forgot, Reid was talking a lot of trash about what he and the Chiefs defense was going to do when facing the Bengals on Sunday, including shutting down particular players. Not only was it weird that a Chiefs player was talking so arrogantly about a matchup that had not gone their way at all in recent months, but Reid himself didn’t even get the opposing player correct (he confused Hayden Hurst for Tyler Higbee).

Of course, we all know the results. The Chiefs went out on Sunday and lost once again. Maybe Reid is trying to clear his own name, at least, and that’s what his tweet indicates, but what good is that going to do. That’s exactly the point of former Chiefs lineman Jeff Allen who posted the following:

At this stage, Chiefs Kingdom has now watched the highest-paid safeties on the team for the last couple of seasons take to Twitter to stir up one thing or another. Tyrann Mathieu went on Twitter to blast “toxic” fans in a move that cost him the fandom of a significant part of Chiefs Kingdom. While Reid isn’t blasting fans or followers here, another segment of Chiefs Kingdom certainly has to be frustrated by the silliness of such posts.

It’s clear that if players can’t handle social media, they shouldn’t be on it, and this is clearly a case of not being able to handle it. Giving an opponent bulletin board material is not needed when you are a member of the Chiefs, since every week means taking the best shot from yet another opponent intent on taking out the most successful team of the last five seasons.

If someone can’t get Reid to exhibit some self-control, then greater measures need to be taken. There are phones given to children that can only make an emergency call and perhaps one of those should be switched out for his smartphone. Or perhaps Reid would like the retro feel of an old flip phone that lacks the capacity to post online. Honestly anything would work at this point, because most of us could only shake our heads and groan once we read Reid’s post on Tuesday.

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