Taylor trouble, again

Barnes' agency, Maximum Sports Management, happen to be this year's winner of ESPN's "Draft Agent Derby":


Their eight-player draft class included a league-best four first-round selections, and all of the clients were chosen in the first three rounds. The result: Maximum Sports ranked first this year in the fifth annual ESPN.com agent draft derby, an accounting of each agency's picks and where they were chosen in last month's NFL draft.

So these guys are definitely going to be busy. If Taylor signs with them, he'd better do it now, because the longer he waits, the longer the negotiations are going to take-- especially if he waits until the last week before training camp to sign with them. Heck, it's bad enough as it is now. Most agents have at least set up the groundwork for negotiations at this point.

The good news is, Barnes is allied with Eugene Parker, another agent with whom the Redskins have an excellent working relationship.

Paintrain:

I think there is a LOOONG way to go before you have to worry if Sean Taylor is the latter day Dmetrius Underwood.

Underwood was sick and needed psychiatric therapy and medications. He heard voices in his head and felt the need to do what the voices suggested he do.

Taylor is being irresponsible and procrastinating and seems to lack focus. But that is a far cry from Underwood's state.

However, I do agree with you that the Skins do not need the latter day Dmetrius Underwood in the same time zone with them. Therefore, I join you in hoping these two characters never merge...

right now it still sounds like either lack of focus, or someone pulling him around (hey man, hold out, they should only be taking 1%, etc etc)...

I don't know if I'd call the Daily Press an "obscure" newspaper... they serve over a million people.

Ive never heard of it, I still dont even know where it is

Do you think Taylor knows who he is playing with here . Joe Gibbs who was burnt by Desmond Howard and Snyder who has mae a habbit of dealing picks away probably to avoid this kind of thing happening..hell he was a cats wisker from trading Patrick Ramsey the last Redskins hold out and interestingly the last Redskins first round pick...

Less than two weeks to go you would think someone friends or family might be pointing out the magnitude of the situation... he could wind up missing out on millions if this keeps up....

right now it still sounds like either lack of focus, or someone pulling him around (hey man, hold out, they should only be taking 1%, etc etc)...

I think you might be right. Sounds like people around him might be saying "Hey man, you're Sean Taylor! They picked you, you didn't pick them. Make them wait, you'll get yours"

I'd think those that one of those people around him would be Portis, telling him he has to get to camp on time. Or at the very least get an agent

Paintrain:

I think there is a LOOONG way to go before you have to worry if Sean Taylor is the latter day Dmetrius Underwood.

Underwood was sick and needed psychiatric therapy and medications. He heard voices in his head and felt the need to do what the voices suggested he do.

Taylor is being irresponsible and procrastinating and seems to lack focus. But that is a far cry from Underwood's state.

However, I do agree with you that the Skins do not need the latter day Dmetrius Underwood in the same time zone with them. Therefore, I join you in hoping these two characters never merge...

Oh yeah, I know.. I was making a tounge in cheek reference to D. Underwood, that's why I conditioned it with the "** Overreactionary alarmist alert **" disclaimer..

maybe someone should get his number and call him up... just to ask him wtf is he thinking, among other things ;)