Sean Taylor doesn't want to be a skin? WTF?

Wasn't it Peter King who said Joe Gibbs promised Kellen Winslow he'd be their pick?

He was also the guy who said that if anyone would hire Deion Sanders as a coach, it would be Dan Snyder.

That's a bit harsh Drkstar. If you want to defer and bow to the great Peter King, go ahead. I read his stuff on a regular basis and, while mostly informed, he will, on more than occasion, speculate and repeat rumour. Yes, he talks to folks on the inside, but that doesn't mean he always gets the facts right. If a rumour is interesting and backed by a decent source, he'll write it. I long ago learned that rumour ain't fact and until I hear it from the real source, Taylor, I think the statement is suspect.

Guess that makes me a nimwit.

By the way, I thought BrudLee's juxtaposition of other quotes from the same article was nothing more than a way for people who actually follow the game to see the speculative nature of the Taylor quote. If you think PK is inerrant, place your bet now on the Jacksonville - Seattle SB. Let me know how it works out for you.

I find it hard to believe that taylor doesn't want to be a skin, I saw interview's heading up to the draft, and he said he would love to be a skin, portis who is his friend, do think he would have kept telling all the coaches to draft Taylor if he didn't want to be here? I seriously doubt it! The player fired his agent, and it sound's like king is trying to out think the situation, with william's as a D-coordinator ready to put him in every possible position to become a star, and he doesn't want that, as well an opportunity to play for a hall of fame coach? I just don't see the validity to king's story.

We all saw what happened when I player doesnt want to play for a team, they speak out against that team. And we've all seen the Sean Taylor interviews. If Sean Taylor didnt want to be hear he would have said something already and not been excited to get to mini camp and have a great press conference. The fact that he even went to minicamp says a lot about him wanting to be here. Unless for some reason you think that by him going to camp it made him realize he didnt want to be a skin. Mabye JoeC can comment about that more, having seen him at camp. But it all seemed positive to me.

i hope this is all bs cuz the last thing this team needs is another contract problem with one of the keys to our defense's success.

I have to say it is odd that the guy would drop his agent between the time of the draft and his first signing. I can't remeber that happing with a top 10 pick. As far as King goes he does seem to have a ton of contacts in the NFL and people talk to him. Busting his balls over his superbowl picks is silly. The superbowl is 8 months away and not even one game has been played. I am sure he only puts that in because he get 100 or so emails about who he thinks will win this year.


OH and BTW anyone know if Taylor found an agent? If its a Postonthat isn't a good sign.

This is all very weird. The only thing we know for sure is that Taylor fired Rosenhaus. Now could the source for King be said Rosenhaus?

Whatever it is, it is wierd that Taylor fired his agent. Until we know who the new agent is, and until we see how things progress with a contract, it's all speculation.

I will not rest easy until Taylor is under contract. Even the most team-oriented players get weird when the contract stuff is going on. And add ego-stroking, money-hungry agents into the mix, and anything can happen. :confused-

Watch out now, smootsmack is on the loose and he's a super dooper moderator.

Peter King is an idiot. He makes a living writing...that in itself should tell you something.

DRKSTAR, wow, that hostility was way, way over the line (in addition to being totally unjustified). Sure, King makes a lot of astute observations. But he also makes a lot of ridiculous ones. Just because this guy is a writer, does not make him a member of MENSA, anyhow. All these guys do is listen to stuff, assess it for reliability, and decide which of it to report. If it is a slow day, they definitely stretch the line on that.

Now as far as INTELLIGENCE goes (I'm going on a tangent here), don't count on a lot of that from many of these writers. I have not checked out King indepth, but some of the others have a horrible track record when it come to prognosticating and projecting player performances. Try going back to at the end of a season and looking at articles these guys wrote at the outset. Priscoe, for example, is so far off it is laughable. You would do MUCH better throwing darts than heeding his projections. So the bottom line is, don't automatically give these guys credibility just because they learned to write, and convinced someone to pay them to do it. A very few of them are very good.

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Also, don't forget that the writer's main goal is to entertain. Sometimes to do so, they may opt for the provocative over the likely truth.

In addition, I've found a lot of the posters here on TheWarpath.net to be pretty informed and insightful. If you were listening to all of the sportswriters, you probably thought the Redskins were going to go with Winslow in the draft, but if you were a frequent visitor here, you were expecting them to pick Taylor. To be honest, notwithstanding the few immature posters that pass through, I'd put up the coverage and discussion you find here against just about any single sportswriter out there.

--Phin