Dear Mr. Hunt, Please Sign Eric Reid

Dear Mr. Hunt, Please Sign Eric Reid

Sincerely, Laddie Morse

Dear Mr. Clark Hunt,

Please consider signing Safety Eric Reid. I know, I know, he’s not the “citizen” you want on the team right now, but he gives our Kansas City Chiefs the best chance to win now. After all the work your new GM, Brett Veach, has done this past year to move the team along upon the “re-tooling” path, with the recent knee injury to starting Safety Daniel Sorensen, the team could use a real shot in the arm. Yes, I know it’s the job of the GM to suggest players to be signed but in the case of Eric Reid, it might be helpful if you gave Brett Veach a nudge by asking him to “look into Eric.”

Craig Stout at ArrowheadPride writes:

“Eric Reid is the guy on this list most likely to contribute as a right-away starter, and not just a “stop-gap.” A five-year veteran in the league, Reid has started every game he’s played in with one exception and has racked up 318 tackles, 34 passes defensed and 10 interceptions. He’s 26 years old with no career-threatening injuries, and he played all over the San Francisco secondary in his five years there, starting as a free safety, then moving to a strong safety role and a dime linebacker role in 2017.”

Doesn’t that sound like a guy you’d like to have on the team? Did you know he made the Pro Bowl in 2013 so he’s got to be pretty good, right? He could solve a lot of “on-field” problems. I get it… you don’t want the “off-field” headaches that come with signing him.

Just think, you could be a hero and statement-maker in NFL owners circles by bringing in a man who has a collusion lawsuit pending against the NFL. I’m sure you know that the Bengals team owner Mike Brown met with Reid to ask him about his protesting, but when Reid didn’t give him an answer he liked about whether he would kneel in the future, the Bengals decided not to offer Reid a deal. Mr. Hunt, you could end all this “collusion” talk (well, not all of it) and the actual lawsuit itself right now. One of Reid’s attorney’s has released a statement that says,

“I am saddened that a 26-year-old will likely never play the sport he loves. Standing up for what’s right shouldn’t cost a person his livelihood, especially in a league where beating a woman isn’t a career-ender.”

Now, you could change the words “in a league” and replace those with the words with “on a team” and we’d all know who we’re talking about. I’m not throwing Tyreek Hill under the bus, everyone deserves a second chance and Hill is living his, it’s just meant to give you some perspective on a man, Reid, who is breaking no laws and is actually putting his livelihood on the line for the life-and-death safety and well being of those who share his culture and heritage. I worked for 11 years with inner city families and not until I did that could I understand that one man’s struggle in life, is not the same as another man’s struggle, because the only difference is their skin color. 

I realize you run a business and its not good for business to have an employee protesting on company time. Plus, it makes many of your fans very uncomfortable. However, this is not your typical 9-to-5 office manager job we’re talking about. These “employees” are finely trained athletes who have sacrificed years of their lives to play a game they love in front of millions of people. Can you afford to live on the “Titanic” and keep the band playing while the ship is going down. “Going down” you ask? Yes, people are being killed every day and you only need to visit Twitter of YouTube to realize that some people are using their cell phones to call the police because another person is sitting in Starbucks and — shock of all shocks — doing nothing. Why? You know why. It’s got to stop and you could help be part of the answer… if you want to.

No, don’t only sign Eric Reid, why don’t you give QB Colin Kaepernick a call now too. The team needs a better backup QB than Chad Henne. AlexSmith is gone so he won’t mind. Take the bull by the horns. If the Chiefs go on a Super Bowl run like the Eagles did last year and our QB#1 goes down, do you think Chad Henne will lead the team to a SB win? No? Me either. Not to say that Kaepernick will, but he’s head over heals better than Henne and since Andy Reid is such a QB-whisperer then Kap should be great by mid-season, right? After all he’s already been to a Super Bowl. So, lets’s move past the constant push-pull of this situational standoff and get-er-dun.

If you think the fans don’t want Eric Reid then take a look at a poll taken at ArrowheadPride the day that the Daniel Sorensen knee problem was announced:

With 951 fans who weighed in, 73% of them voted for the Chiefs to sign Eric Reid. It’s not like this poll offered only two choices either. That only goes to support the validity of the outcome.

Sure, you’re going to get negative feedback, just like I am going to get negative feedback for writing this letter to you. However, please see past all of that and ask yourself if this team would be better — a lot better — with Eric Reid on it?

Please consider at least signing Eric Reid. A true Chiefs fan since the 1960s would appreciate it.

Sincerely, Laddie Morse

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