Sean Taylor struggling???

My four month old niece could take a dump on the keyboard and the sh*t she spews would make more sense than your rambling, incoherent posts...

But seriously folks, no need for personal attacks. Let's not start 2007 on a bad foot
The personal attacks are made by the little cry babies , the guys who couldn't put on a jock strap to begin with . First , this thread did NOT blame ST for the poor defence , just pointed out it was not his best year . Probably because of the poor play of the front 7 and Cb's . he is talented , but he did miss more than a few tackles that he ,,, and all of our db's should make . Draft a stud DL , find another Lb , sign a Cb and 21 should be back in form .

Good one TAF. Happy New year by the way...

Likewise pana

I've been frustrated with Taylor for a while but not because he is a bad player or even that he is playing particularly poorly. My frustration is more to do with the fact that he IS underachieving. I don't think that you can say that he has played as badly as some of you have made out but he shouldn't be just a decent player, with his talent he should be a regular pro bowler. Undoubtedly, the piss poor defense has not helped and left him papering over cracks way too much but the guy is a beast and even playing well below his potential is still our best defender.

Taylor could be a truly great player and I hope that next season he switches on and doesn't just try to make the monster play all the time.

Perhaps these stats can help us put Taylor's effort in perspective a little more.

Here are the stats of the tree safeties that were elected to the Pro-Bowl for the NFC. I threw in Ed Reed from the AFC just to see how he compared to one of the elite safeties in the NFL.

Ed Reed first.

59 Tackles 8 assists. Reed was seventh on his team in tackles. I was amazed to see how many of their linebackers were ahead of him. I guess that's why they have the number one defense in the league.

NFC.

Brian Dawkins. 93 tackles 71 assists 2nd on team in tackles
Roy Williams. 62 tackles 10 assists 4th on team " "
Adrian Wilson 82 tackles 8 assists 3rd on team " "
Sean Taylor 111 tackles 25 assists 1st on team " "


Taylor led all safties and many linebackers in the NFC in total number of tackles this year.

Perhaps these stats can help us put Taylor's effort in perspective a little more.






i never once questioned Taylors effort. and i already know Taylor is trying to make up for a porous defense. but maybe he needs to concentrate on his assignments, first. and i don't think anyone will argue that he has missed a ton of tackles this season. as well as everyone else on the redskins defensive side of the ball

i never once questioned Taylors effort. and i already know Taylor is trying to make up for a porous defense. but maybe he needs to concentrate on his assignments, first. and i don't think anyone will argue that he has missed a ton of tackles this season. as well as everyone else on the redskins defensive side of the ball


He has missed a lot of tackles. But still, had he made half of those tackles, gosh, he would have had like 120something tackles! The real point is, he had very little help from the front seven.

i dont argue that, at all

excuse me. guys, im a redskin fan. that means i want him to do well. but im not understanding why people around here keep giving him a free pass. and 100 tackles, 10 yards down the field doesnt mean a whole lot to me

that means that others are missing tackles. which ST then has to make

Someone said there weren't three safeties he would take over Sean Taylor even with his shortcomings being exposed this year. Consider please:

Ed Reed
Brian Dawkins
Troy Polamalu
Roy Williams (???) He has the same coverage deficiencies as ST.
Bob Sanders
Yeremiah Bell
Michael Boulware (???)
Mike Brown
Donovan Darius

There are seven I'd take over Taylor right now in 2007 and two others who I'd have to think about for a while. And if I went team-by-team to look at rosters, I might come up with a couple of others...


Here's my idea for the Redskins defense next year:

1. Tell Sean Taylor to add 20 pounds of muscle in the off-season because he's going to be an outside linebacker next year.

2. Find a safety somewhere who can COVER people and then let Archuletta be the safety who does run support and handles the slower tight-end/fullback coverage assignments.

3. While Taylor has prodigious physical skills, I suspect that he does not have the instincts/mental acumen to be a safety because when you get suckered in at safety the result is a LONG game or a TD. If you get suckered in at LB, there's still help behind you.

Someone said there weren't three safeties he would take over Sean Taylor even with his shortcomings being exposed this year. Consider please:

Ed Reed
Brian Dawkins
Troy Polamalu
Roy Williams (???) He has the same coverage deficiencies as ST.
Bob Sanders
Yeremiah Bell
Michael Boulware (???)
Mike Brown
Donovan Darius

There are seven I'd take over Taylor right now in 2007 and two others who I'd have to think about for a while. And if I went team-by-team to look at rosters, I might come up with a couple of others...


Here's my idea for the Redskins defense next year:

1. Tell Sean Taylor to add 20 pounds of muscle in the off-season because he's going to be an outside linebacker next year.

2. Find a safety somewhere who can COVER people and then let Archuletta be the safety who does run support and handles the slower tight-end/fullback coverage assignments.

3. While Taylor has prodigious physical skills, I suspect that he does not have the instincts/mental acumen to be a safety because when you get suckered in at safety the result is a LONG game or a TD. If you get suckered in at LB, there's still help behind you.

Wow, the guy has two great years at safety where he covered the likes of TO and Randy Moss and they did nothing against him, and the defense has a bad year and you decide he cant cover, he should become a LB. The list of safetys you put ahead of him is a joke, saying he and Roy Williams have the same coverage skills is laughable, Roy Williams cant cover a soul, hes the most overrated player in all of the NFL. The fact that you dont seem to understand that half of his troubles this year came from the awful pass rush, Carlos Rogers utter inability to cover backup recievers, and the terrible experiment we like to refer to as "Adam Archuletta". Sean Taylor can cover, he can run support and dominates when he doesnt have to do everything on his own. Look at the supporting cast of all those safetys you listed and them compare them to Seans situation, its really unfair. This is typical of most Redskins fans who catch three or four games a year, then decide they now all about football.