Sean Taylors play

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by gabe1984

I am not willing to admit that Sean Taylor's play has regressed since his first season playing for the Redskins. If you look at the last 6 Superbowl winners, they have all had great safeties on the defense. Let's rewind. Colts - Bob Sander, Steelers- Troy Polomalu, Patriots X2 - Rodney Harrison, Bucs - John Lynch, and then Harrison again. However, IMO, not one of these guys are the best player on their defense. They are able to go out and make plays beceause they all had a front 7 who could take care of business, unlike the Skins had last year. If you look at the 2005 season when our front 7 was good, Taylor was making plays all over the place!!!! No one cany deny that. Do you think Ed Reed would be as good as he is, and I'm not trying to take away from Reed because he's probably going to go down as one of the best saeties ever to play. But, do you think he would be as good as he is without playing with the likes of Ray Lewis, Chris McAllister, Adalius Thomas, or Terrell Suggs. I doubt it.

I feel like safety is a tough position to be making a lot of game changing plays at, like ST did in 2005, when the guys in front of you suck. If you took any one of the safeties I just mentioned and put them in instead of Taylor last year, I doubt any of them could do much better, IMO.

Is it true that ST missed a lot of tackles last year, yes it is. However, if you look closely at a lot of those plays, Sean was running from the other side of the field trying to make a play on a guy that was not even his responsibility!! So, yeah he may of missed some tackles, but a lot of those most safties in the NFL wouldnt be able to even come close to putting themselves in a position to make the play in the first place. ST is a freakin beast, and he's going to haunt your dreams for talking bad about him. He can do that.

I think it's also worth pointing out that Sean led the Skins in tackles last year, and was in fact, one of the leading tacklers in all of the NFL last year.

Within NFL circles, I think it's safe to say many consider #21 one of the top safety's playing today.

That being said, I think if his number of tackles drop by 10 or so this year, it's possible his production will improve as a result.