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Jason Taylor to Jets (1 Viewer)
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Dr. Awesome
Footballguy
I like this guy that much less.
=Smackdown=
Footballguy
Best of luck you traitorous dancing fool media attention ^*&%*%* whore !!!May your time in NY be as productive as your one season in WashingtonDead to me
captain_amazing
Footballguy
Agreed.
Agreed even more.
Maybe he'll be too busy dancing with the stars and hang it up halfway through... 
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
This is why I told my Jets fan friends two we4ks ago that this was a done deal.
LBH
Footballguy
I hated Taylor as a Dolphin but as long as he gets the job done for the Jets as a situational pass rusher ill be rooting for him. B.Thomas had all of 2 sacks last year, and the Jets as a team were middle of the pack despite being in a blitz happy defense so i think the move for the Jets makes a lot of sense
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
His quote from earlier this month on playing for the Jets. Thx for nothing, Jason.
"But at the end of the day, if you can't find a job anywhere else and the Jets call, I guess you've got to retire or go play."
"But at the end of the day, if you can't find a job anywhere else and the Jets call, I guess you've got to retire or go play."
Chase Stuart
Footballguy
If Favre can go to the Vikings, Jason Taylor can come to the Jets. I think he's a 30-snap a game guy who should improve the pass rush. I like the signing.
mozzy84
Footballguy
I am confused with the hate
MarshallRob
Footballguy
I don't like it either but the Dolphins wouldn't offer him a contract. What was he supposed to do?More here from the Miami Herald.Best of luck you traitorous dancing fool media attention ^*&%*%* whore !!!
May your time in NY be as productive as your one season in Washington
Dead to me
Reaper
Footballguy
If you hate JT you have to remember that early in his career he was on a 4 game losing streak to the NYJ going into the MNF Miracle game where JT played the Absolute Fool in that game all mik'd up..... The Jets crowned his ###.
He went on to losed 8 in a row and 9 out of 10...In his world the Jets and Jet fans were his Daddy.
Welcome home.
Kiddnets
Footballguy
After 40+ years of my team not winning a SuperBowl I honestly dont care who they bring in and how much I hated them in the past - I would welcome Bellichick with open arms!
Its a 1 yr deal in an uncapped yr - no brainer. At worst maybe he shows some of the youngsters how to get to the QB - the ghost should follow him all of camp.....
Its a 1 yr deal in an uncapped yr - no brainer. At worst maybe he shows some of the youngsters how to get to the QB - the ghost should follow him all of camp.....
UW72
Footballguy
In my opinion a horrible decision from the Dolphins to let him go
For over 80% of all sacks the Dolphins had last year Jason Taylor has been on the field!
He didn't make 80% of our sacks but he made the way for the other defenders, so he improved the pass rush a lot.
To let him go to a division rival, who already has a great defense is plain stupid IMHO
For over 80% of all sacks the Dolphins had last year Jason Taylor has been on the field!
He didn't make 80% of our sacks but he made the way for the other defenders, so he improved the pass rush a lot.
To let him go to a division rival, who already has a great defense is plain stupid IMHO
KnowledgeReignsSupreme
Footballguy
I never understand posts like this.
Reaper
Footballguy
I kinda understand.....
For a guy like Smackdown who absolutely HATES the Jets, Jason Taylor and all the garbage he spewed about the Jets and Jet fans was Gospel..... JT practically talked for Smack... Smack and JT were practically Brothers or closer - When it came to the Jets and their fans JT and Smack finished eachothers sentences and thoughts.
Now to sit back and find out that all that was Shtick and just silly words said out of frustration about a team and fans that he just couldn't beat too often must really really hurt deep inside.
Jason Taylor was the best Miami Defensive player ever and now he's A New York Jet!!!!!!
Greatest Dolphin Defender Ever
By GREG COTE
gcote@MiamiHerald.com
The good, long, loyal service that might earn an employee a testimonial dinner and a gold watch in another line of work ended in a slap in the face for Jason Taylor. The best defensive player in Dolphins history is joining the bitter-rival New York Jets because the Dolphins left him no choice with their silence and indifference.
What a sad, silly, unnecessary ending.
Taylor, a Hall of Fame-bound star who might be the greatest Dolphins player after Dan Marino, deserved better than to be made to twist in the wind by Miami's refusal to consider offering him a contract or even discuss it until after this week's NFL Draft.
A player who deserved respect and, yes, perhaps special treatment, instead was treated callously, as if he were any other piece of meat, as if this were any other emotionless transaction in the cold, routine business of pro football.
Miami letting Taylor go is worse than callous, though. It's dumb. And it's worse than dumb. It's dumbfounding.
STILL PRODUCTIVE
The Dolphins could have used Taylor, even at age 35. His career tank is not nearly on fumes. He had seven sacks, three forced fumbles and an interception last season. Miami now will be forced to spend an early draft pick on an outside linebacker because the best one available, Taylor, was all but kicked out the door.
This by the same team that eagerly re-signed Jason Ferguson, 36, even though Ferguson is suspended for the first half of the 2010 season after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
It might bear noting, by the way, that Taylor in his long career has incurred no suspension, no arrest, nothing to blemish his integrity or shame the franchise. Probably the worst thing he has done is finish second (not win) on TV's Dancing With The Stars.
The Dolphins have turned their back not only on a still-valuable player at a position of need, and on a respected team leader in a locker room that could use a few, but also on a man who has comported himself as a proper role model and served as the antidote to so much of what we see in sports these days.
Newly acquired Brandon Marshall is a Pro Bowler and a prolific receiver despite personal turmoil that has included six arrests. Somehow, Taylor has managed, save for a bit of temporary turbulence in his marriage, to accomplish greatly on the field while also portraying the type of off-field image and class that a franchise should embrace, or at least appreciate.
Endings aren't always neat, or written by Disney.
The two greatest figures in Dolphins history, Marino and Don Shula, saw their eras end not exactly on their terms. Both men were eased out. Gently nudged away. Neither felt like retiring but did, uncomfortably.
Now, Taylor is severed by a different regime, but also in a way that feels, well, messy. He wanted to re-sign with Miami, the team in a place he called home.
The Tuesday the Dolphins lost Taylor to the Jets does not speak well of roster chief Bill Parcells or, trickling down, general manager Jeff Ireland, or even coach Tony Sparano. I also wonder if star-struck owner Stephen Ross had anything to say, or chose to be mute, about the late mishandling of Taylor.
This invites the portrayal of this Dolphins regime as cold-hearted, but also as fumbling in a football sense. As playing this wrong. I mean, why would you not want Taylor back? It wasn't a money issue. Why does a Jets team that ranked No. 1 in the league in defense last season have a role for this man while a Miami team not as good thinks it is too good for Taylor?
WHO IS BETTER OFF?
It makes no sense from a pragmatic perspective, even if you carve away the emotional aspect and look at it just from the vantage of which team seems better off today: the Jets with Taylor, or the Dolphins without him?
The only good to come of this unfortunate parting is that it makes the NFL's fiercest rivalry that much better. The league has too few pulsing rivalries with blood always on a simmer, always ready to boil. Dolphins-Jets is one. And it gets only richer in texture by an obviously hurt and disappointed Taylor switching sides.
Did he have a choice? He did. But not a great one. The Dolphins' indifference forced his hand. If Taylor had waited out the Dolphins, what if the Jets then used their top draft pick on a similar player and no longer needed or wanted him? Then what if Miami did the same?
Taylor joined the team that wanted him, bottom line.
That's the thing about any job, right? Any relationship, really. That's the human nature that cuts across every endeavor, sports included.
We want to feel loved, wanted, appreciated.
We want to feel like somebody cares.
The New York Jets did.
The team that had every reason to did not.
Tanner9919
Footballguy
thats a lot of money for a washed up has-been like Taylor...
Reaper
Footballguy
The Dolphin fan chaos and comments at Miamiherald.com and Finheaven alone are worth 3.7 million dollars.If he contributes anywhere near what he did last year the Jets would be more than happy. - Plus there was talk that he wasn't used enough last year and he had a bum shoulder that is healthy now.Tanner9919 said:
phthalatemagic
Footballguy
THIS IS HILARIOUS
Gatorman
Supreme Elite Maximum Tier
I will miss JT and as a dolphin fan I am not happy about the classless way they have handled this. Sign him or let him know that he is out. Treat him like a man. I wish him success in Gang Green, even as I hate the Jets.
It is a cold business, sure, but some players deserve to be treated a little better.
Gator
It is a cold business, sure, but some players deserve to be treated a little better.
Gator
I agree wholeheartedly.
