I saw a comment on ESPN.com on 1/29/13 where Ed Reed, a safety for the Baltimore Ravens, commented that Junior Seau, a former All - Pro linebacker who shot himself, knew what he was signing up for when he decided to play pro football.
There didn't appear to be any animosity in Reed's comments but I thought that due to the position that each played there should be some disparity in the number of tackles each made during there career.
Out of curiosity I looked up the number of tackles made by each player during his respective career (Reed is still active at age 34 and will play in the Super Bowl on 2/3/13/) and found that Seau who played 20 years from 1990 to 2009 has made almost 3 times as many tackles as Reed from 2002 - 2012. The numbers are 1,524 for Seau and 510 for Reed.
Reed has complained about 'feeling the effects from some blows'.
Seau's career doesn't require anyone to stand up for him but I think Reed who is a great player in his own right needs to be involved in an additional1,000 tackles before he can comment on Seau or his actions.
I got the stats at the pro-football-reference.com site.
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