Personally, I'm just tired of the Jason Taylor back and forth. Make up your mind man. Dolphins, Redskins, Dolphins, Jets, Dolphins... The grass is not always greener on the other side. I wouldn't accept him back other than to retire, just purely out of principle.
It is official... http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/01/jason-taylor-is-going-back-to-miami/ http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/
I disagree, he's still got his arm length and leverage and knows how to use it. Every time I saw him he did was pretty solid, and he's savvy enough to handle coverage decently.
We traded him to the redskins, and he signed with miami again as a free agent...............def. not his fault. just sayin.
I made it a point to type his full name as long as he was a Jest player, now that he has returned...back to "JT".
JT is back to perhaps witness the death of his 4th regime as a member of the Miami Dolphins. Jimmy, Wannstache, Saban, Cameron and now potentially these guys. JT, the regime slayer.
I can't say the same about my Pat White jersey. I might just rip off the nameplate, toss it in the closet, and hope someone of value dons #6 in the future.
Not a bad idea at all bringing JT back. (Though I'm still pissed at him). As has been mentioned by Desides and a few others, he can be a very good mentor to some of the younger guys, he will be pretty good for us in spot duty, and you better believe his brain will picked about the Jets defense. Not an overly exciting signing, but certainly not a bad one.
Why him and not someone like Manny Lawson, you know, who actually might produce when on the field? This offseason just keeps getting stranger...
True, but the whole dancing with the stars thing was the reason for that. He indirectly made that decision. But I get what you're saying. I don't hate JT... I just really don't know what to think of him anymore. Hopefully we'll be able to make use of his knowledge and whatever he has left in the tank.
I remember him being a pain in our *** when we played him at home last year, I remember him making his signature heart gesture and punched the sh^% out of it to our endzone fans, I remember him beating Big Jake for a sack, I believe..I just remember him playing a nice game for them against us.. I'am happy about his return.. I ketp my mouth shut when he left us for the Jets, cause when you can play this game, you play it as long as you can, for any team that wants you to play it, til you can't play it anymore..This team needs to unify, and we need a situational pass rusher across from wake, and I welcome his pretty *** back.
Just as I clicked on this thread the song, "The boys are back in town" started playing on the radio - how's that for irony.
If he can get us 5-6 sacks over the course of the season (in spot duty), while helping our younger guys improve, then his season with us will be a success. No doubt he will be huge as far as leadership is concerned.
Personally, I was hoping for better than this. I knew they wanted a situational pass rusher. I wanted an EFFECTIVE one. Antwan Barnes took a cheap deal to remain in San Diego and he would have been twice the situational pass rusher Jason Taylor is. That's my opinion. And yes this is yet another move that I've gone on record disagreeing with on a hypothetical basis well before it happened. Jason Taylor rushed the passer 409 times last year, ended up with 5 sacks, 3 hits and 17 pressures. Those are bad numbers. They're not QUITE Aaron Maybin bad, but they're close. He should have literally been affecting the quarterback twice as often, if he wants to call himself a good situational pass rusher. The reality is, he wasn't effective rushing the passer in 2009, either. He rushed the passer 341 times, had 8 sacks, 4 hits and 20 pressures. That's better than his 2010 performance with the Jets, but still not great. If you want to be a situational pass rusher, you have to be bettert han average at that job. You can have weaknesses in other areas of your game, which is why you're just a situational guy, but you have to be GOOD at what you do. And of course in 2008 with the Redskins it goes without saying that his 4 sacks, 1 hit and 22 pressures was not up to snuff for his 360 pass rush opportunities. So in reality we're talking about a guy that hasn't played well since 2007, and hasn't been a difference maker as a pass rusher since 2006. There's a reason that experiment with the Jets lasted only one year. My ONE hope is that a drastic reduction in snaps could help him be fresh enough to be better than usual when he does come in. But I don't think that's going to be the case. I believe he's more of a savvy rusher nowadays. He feels out how blockers are guarding him and sets up his rushes. That could mean he needs snaps in order to be effective and affect the QB. If so, he'll be a waste of a roster spot. Again, Antwan Barnes returns to the Chargers for something like $3.2 million on a 2 year deal, and the Dolphins don't even take a swipe at him. Instead they sign Jason Taylor to be a situational pass rusher that isn't effective rushing the passer anymore. He's really only here for one reason, to put fans in the stands...IMO.
@Gardenhead: I can't stop staring at the girl in your avatar. Can't figure out what it is about her...
Taylor got a sack off of Lousaka Polite, which shows you how much they respected him. Taylor didn't get a single pressure, much less a sack off of Long. No one did in either game.
Exactly, and I'm not too hyped on his skill level these days, do think he can still play a bit, but you have to use him in spot duty for say 150 snaps, I also think that he offers to knock down one more question we had, the need for a situational passrushing DE. This move really takes a ton of pressure off of Koa.
Lawson also had loads more pressures that he didn't finish through on. Taylor is in a much better position to convert what little pressure he got to sacks because his team was sending 6 all the damn time.
JT's game is more then sacks/pressures though, passes defensed and fumbles created and recovered are also a measurable part of his repetoire.
CK... I'm sorry but did you honestly just put Maybin in the same breath as JT? A guy that has zero career sacks... including practices?
Pretty sure JT knows that Jet playbook. I really hope he has something left in the tank for us. He wasn't that bad for us in 09 and he was a starter then.
I dont have any of those numbers. Hoa many pressures did Lawson get? And on how many snaps did those pressures come? I'd have to believe that he got a lot more action than JT did last year...
regardless of if JT came back or not, i still think 99 would have remained unused until they retire it. Like what the Yankees are doing with 51 for Bernie and 21 for O'niel.