Is Sean Taylor that good or...

[redskinsfanatic]

As I said, ST played against NE and they still threw the ball.
If ST plays perhaps they score a different way. We just can't say if ST played the outcome would have been different.

with all respect to the pats,they can kill you with any of the 3 all pro wrs they have.
dallas wrs to,crayton,and witten are nowhere nearly as good as the pats wrs are.ST was the difference in that game yesterday,if he plays no way does TO score 4 tds.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by redskinsfanatic

with all respect to the pats,they can kill you with any of the 3 all pro wrs they have.
dallas wrs to,crayton,and witten are nowhere nearly as good as the pats wrs are.ST was the difference in that game yesterday,if he plays no way does TO score 4 tds.

And the difference is the Pats didn't go down the field all day, they picked us apart with the underneath stuff. They clearly respected ST in centerfield, just as Dallas would have done yesterday if he was playing.

[Cowell]

I really do think Sean Taylor is THAT good.

I also think that our safety depth is THAT bad. We have no one behind Taylor and Landry, and we really paid for it this week. You can blame the coaches all you want but the players need to be able to run the play and adjust to what the offense is running. They did neither and left TO running alone almost all day.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by redskinsfanatic

with all respect to the pats,they can kill you with any of the 3 all pro wrs they have.
dallas wrs to,crayton,and witten are nowhere nearly as good as the pats wrs are.ST was the difference in that game yesterday,if he plays no way does TO score 4 tds.

When have Wes Welker and Donte Stallworth been all pro's?

TO may not have scored 4 td's. But somehow I still think Dallas finds a way to win that game. With or w/out Taylor.

[DiehardSkin88]

Skinsfan69.. You dont think wes welker and stallworth are all pros, last year stallworth was the one killing us when he was on the eagles. And welker is one of the best slot receivers in football... all that with tom brady throwing. ANd yes, pats did not go deep that often, they would throw it in the flat to the rb for 15 yards each time. Yoiu obviously dont kno what your talkin bout

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by DiehardSkin88

Skinsfan69.. You dont think wes welker and stallworth are all pros, last year stallworth was the one killing us when he was on the eagles. And welker is one of the best slot receivers in football... all that with tom brady throwing. ANd yes, pats did not go deep that often, they would throw it in the flat to the rb for 15 yards each time. Yoiu obviously dont kno what your talkin bout

I guess not.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Sorry to be the dissenter here but if Sean Taylor had played he would probably not have picked off one of TO's TD passes and broken up two others. Sean Taylor's great strength is the big hit and the spectacular play. He is not now - nor has he ever been - really good at that thing they call "coverage".

Go back and look at game films from past seasons when he's been perfectly healthy and you'll see him chasing people into the end zone and arriving just a tad late to break up pass plays.

And you'll see him biting on double moves like Rosie O'Donnel going after an elcair.

The Skins were hampered by the loss of Taylor because it made them play a far less "gambling" defense because they did not have him back there 20 yards from the line of scrimmage to handle the mistakes of others. But if anyone thinks that he's "the great cover guy" who can stop a player like TO ask yourself this:

If he covers so well, how come he isn't the best shut-down cornerback in the NFL?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Sorry to be the dissenter here but if Sean Taylor had played he would probably not have picked off one of TO's TD passes and broken up two others. Sean Taylor's great strength is the big hit and the spectacular play. He is not now - nor has he ever been - really good at that thing they call "coverage".

Go back and look at game films from past seasons when he's been perfectly healthy and you'll see him chasing people into the end zone and arriving just a tad late to break up pass plays.

And you'll see him biting on double moves like Rosie O'Donnel going after an elcair.

The Skins were hampered by the loss of Taylor because it made them play a far less "gambling" defense because they did not have him back there 20 yards from the line of scrimmage to handle the mistakes of others. But if anyone thinks that he's "the great cover guy" who can stop a player like TO ask yourself this:

If he covers so well, how come he isn't the best shut-down cornerback in the NFL?

Ummm, because he plays safety?

[skinsWill]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Sorry to be the dissenter here but if Sean Taylor had played he would probably not have picked off one of TO's TD passes and broken up two others. Sean Taylor's great strength is the big hit and the spectacular play. He is not now - nor has he ever been - really good at that thing they call "coverage".

Go back and look at game films from past seasons when he's been perfectly healthy and you'll see him chasing people into the end zone and arriving just a tad late to break up pass plays.

And you'll see him biting on double moves like Rosie O'Donnel going after an elcair.

The Skins were hampered by the loss of Taylor because it made them play a far less "gambling" defense because they did not have him back there 20 yards from the line of scrimmage to handle the mistakes of others. But if anyone thinks that he's "the great cover guy" who can stop a player like TO ask yourself this:

If he covers so well, how come he isn't the best shut-down cornerback in the NFL?

Nice one Matty!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! The range that ST has when he is 20 yards deep and "ballhawking" IS the BEST in the NFL and if your tell me ST doesnt break up those 2 TD passes down the middle of the feild OR pick one off... well then you just havent watched too many games. Go back and watch the GB game and then tell me TO scores on 3 deep balls.