Redskins trade for Jason Taylor (updated)

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I won't bother to respond to your first statement. Your posts are speaking for themselves.

I don't have Reggie's bench numbers but I trust Mike Golic in that he played in the NFL for several seasons and on the same DL as RW for most. He has mentioned several times that RW was an "unbelievable combination of strength and speed". If I'm not mistaken he was consistently one of the strongest, if not the strongest, on the Eagles & Packers teams he played on. LT while not a strong as White, had ridiculous speed and well above average strength. He played LB not LDE. For LDE strength is extremely important.

No one is implying that you should just get the guys with the strongest bench numbers and plug them in. But if "anyone who knows football" thinks bench is unimportant, why is it done at the combine, with every NFL team in attendance. The NFL folks are pretty busy guys and wouldn't waste their time on a drill/test that is not important.

I've mentioned this before also, C. Campbell's D-Line coach in 2006 is on staff at Redskins Park. If he was available at a reasonable position in the draft (he was) and the Skins didn't take him, that tells me all I need to know.

Prior to the combine I was high on C. Campbell also, his size looks great, sack total looks good, but his combine performance and scouting report negatives sent up huge red flags.

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Slingin Sammy 33

Agree with you on the premise. My points to Drift are specifically about Campbell, who at 280-290 lbs turned in the worst bench numbers at the combine for DL, looked soft, and there were also motiviation/motor questions on him.

Also, upper body strength is not as critical at RDE or OLB (Suggs positions) as it is for LDE.

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GTripp0012

Gabe Watson also dropped to the fourth round because of poor/questionable workouts in 2006, and he's become the first round type of talent people thought he would be.

Of course, one year later, fellow Wolverine Alan Branch did the same thing, fell to the 2nd round, and his rookie year was less than promising.

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dcsportsfan1

I found a video about Taylor talking about his new number. There's also a pretty entertaining one of the fans reacting to Taylor being a Redskin. Check them out on comcastsportsnet.com. Go skins!

Drift Reality

That's pretty funny stuff.

My main point is that people shouldn't get so caught up with metrics like bench reps. and clocked 40 times in my opinion.

I'm not saying that good players don't work out or are not strong. That would be a ridiculous statement.

Anyway, let's just drop it and we'll see what happens when they strap 'em on.

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DIRTEE

Drift Reality - I was just joking with you. I totally understood where you were going with your statement.