No Ed-bashing here

Go ahead if you want. Smack around Ravens safety Ed Reed -- the sports-talk shows are doing it -- for fielding a punt and trying to lateral in the final seconds of the Ravens 17-15 loss to the Indy Colts.

It didn't work. The ball bounced like an errant grape and was recovered by the Colts Freddy Keiaho at the Ravens 40. Indy then ran out the clock. But you'll get no griping about Reed's play from this corner of the Toy Dept.

  The guy was trying to make a play. He's made a ton of them in his brilliant career here. That's the way the guy plays, with reckless abandon. And most of the time, his plays turn into something good for the Ravens.

 Besides, the way the offense was playing, I have absolutely no faith that Joe Flacco and Co. would have been able to move the ball into field goal range with just 28 seconds remaining.

 Desperate times call for desperate measures. When you're fielding a punt with 28 seconds left and your team trailing on the scoreboard, things are pretty desperate.

You do what you can to make a play.

That's what Ed Reed tried to do. This time it didn't work.

But you don't kill a guy for trying.



(baltimoresun.com)