Legendary USC safety Polamalu a finalist for Pro Football HOF
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I think Edge finally gets in. Criminal how long he's had to wait. -
Troy and Ed Reed were the premier safeties in their time.
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Easily.PandaOrangeChiknDuck said:Troy and Ed Reed were the premier safeties in their time.
Sean Taylor would have been in that conversation, too. As much as I love both TP and ER, Taylor was an amazing combination of both. He could play center-field like Reed and enforce the run like Polamalu. The kid was a specimen and had the mind of a killer.
Closet comparison is Kenny Easley, a fucking GOAT if there ever was one. That kind of player. -
Too bad he got killed. He was on his way to a HoF careercreepycoug said:
Easily.PandaOrangeChiknDuck said:Troy and Ed Reed were the premier safeties in their time.
Sean Taylor would have been in that conversation, too. As much as I love both TP and ER, Taylor was an amazing combination of both. He could play center-field like Reed and enforce the run like Polamalu. The kid was a specimen and had the mind of a killer.
Closet comparison is Kenny Easley, a fucking GOAT if there ever was one. That kind of player. -
Taylor was good, but he wasn’t at their level when he was alive. The best night have been Bob Sanders. He was incredibly valuable to the Colts but could never stay healthy.creepycoug said:
Easily.PandaOrangeChiknDuck said:Troy and Ed Reed were the premier safeties in their time.
Sean Taylor would have been in that conversation, too. As much as I love both TP and ER, Taylor was an amazing combination of both. He could play center-field like Reed and enforce the run like Polamalu. The kid was a specimen and had the mind of a killer.
Closet comparison is Kenny Easley, a fucking GOAT if there ever was one. That kind of player. -
Yes he absolutely was. I think you're talking out of your ass on this one, and I mean that sincerely. I like most of your takes, but this one it terrible.RoadDawg55 said:
Taylor was good, but he wasn’t at their level when he was alive. The best night have been Bob Sanders. He was incredibly valuable to the Colts but could never stay healthy.creepycoug said:
Easily.PandaOrangeChiknDuck said:Troy and Ed Reed were the premier safeties in their time.
Sean Taylor would have been in that conversation, too. As much as I love both TP and ER, Taylor was an amazing combination of both. He could play center-field like Reed and enforce the run like Polamalu. The kid was a specimen and had the mind of a killer.
Closet comparison is Kenny Easley, a fucking GOAT if there ever was one. That kind of player.
Drafted #5, played three full seasons and one partial season. In that time, made 2 Pro Bowls and one First Team All Pro. And, mind you, he was a polarizing player, so he was never voted in on anything based on popularity (which happens).
You probably didn't watch him in college; I did. I also watched Easley and Lott in college, because I'm that old. Taylor was that good, and maybe could have been better. He could run support like Steve Atwater, and cover downfield like Reed. Ergo, Kenny Easley. He scared the shit out of running backs and QBs alike because he could lay the lumber and was an interception machine.
There just haven't been that many who could do both like he could.
6'2", 230 lbs. 100 meter sprint champ in Florida (where that means something) and had hops. He was an incredible athlete, a NASTY fucking hitter and an overall nightmare for opposing teams. He could also return kicks and punts like a boss.
Let me ask you this: how many players do you know who played less than 5 seasons, anywhere, and are in their pro team's Ring of Honor? The Redskins have had a lot of legendary players come through, so they're not short on people to celebrate. And yet they made room for Taylor after only having him play for three seasons.
@whlinder can say more. I'm just shocked at your take here Roadie. Please say something to calm me down. -
I've been a Redskins fan since birth and went to games beginning in the 80s. I hate those fuckers now, but you can only truly hate things you loved.
My favorite Redskin player ever is not Darrell Green or Art Monk or Gary Clark or Wilbur Marshall or Mark Rypien or Doug Williams or Champ Bailey or Clinton Portis or Brad Johnson or Lavar Arrington or Chris Samuels or Trent Williams or Marcus Washington or Alvin Walton or Ken Harvey or Deion (lol) or Mark Brunell or Stephen Davis or Dexter Manley or Charles Mann or Chris Cooley or Santana Moss or whoever.
It's Sean Taylor. Easily. By far. I have both his rookie #36 jersey and the Redskins 75th anniversary #21 for him. I will likely never buy another Redskins jersey.
Because he was unlike any other football player I have ever seen. Ed Reed was a big hitter and had great ball skills and instincts. Ronnie Lott was the same. Those guys were not physically in the same league as Sean Taylor. As a rookie wearing #36 he would get mistaken for Arrington wearing #56 as a 250lb LB. Because Sean was that physically imposing. Sean had football instincts while also wanting to blow people up, and the physical ability to do that better than anyone. Speed, quickness, strength, he was next level on all of those. The dude was a monster. MEAST.
Remember Sean was only 24 when he was killed. He was drafted when he was only 21, and was putting everything together that season. That's why he was all-pro that year. His peak form was beyond what Bob Sanders or Polamalu ever did. -
BINGO.whlinder said:I've been a Redskins fan since birth and went to games beginning in the 80s. I hate those fuckers now, but you can only truly hate things you loved.
My favorite Redskin player ever is not Darrell Green or Art Monk or Gary Clark or Wilbur Marshall or Mark Rypien or Doug Williams or Champ Bailey or Clinton Portis or Brad Johnson or Lavar Arrington or Chris Samuels or Trent Williams or Marcus Washington or Alvin Walton or Ken Harvey or Deion (lol) or Mark Brunell or Stephen Davis or Dexter Manley or Charles Mann or Chris Cooley or Santana Moss or whoever.
It's Sean Taylor. Easily. By far. I have both his rookie #36 jersey and the Redskins 75th anniversary #21 for him. I will likely never buy another Redskins jersey.
Because he was unlike any other football player I have ever seen. Ed Reed was a big hitter and had great ball skills and instincts. Ronnie Lott was the same. Those guys were not physically in the same league as Sean Taylor. As a rookie wearing #36 he would get mistaken for Arrington wearing #56 as a 250lb LB. Because Sean was that physically imposing. Sean had football instincts while also wanting to blow people up, and the physical ability to do that better than anyone. Speed, quickness, strength, he was next level on all of those. The dude was a monster. MEAST.
Remember Sean was only 24 when he was killed. He was drafted when he was only 21, and was putting everything together that season. That's why he was all-pro that year. His peak form was beyond what Bob Sanders or Polamalu ever did.
I have (figurative) tears in my eyes reading this.
@RoadDawg55 owes us bofe a YUGE apology.
Roadie, you're up. -
Interesting Taylor takes
Obviously I've seen countless games and highlights of Ronnie Lott and Ed Reed and they deservedly are top 100 players.
I knew Taylor died to young but frankly wasn't watching the Skins when he died
I do know that @whlinder and creep are saying the same things said when he died. He had to be legit -
He really was. If you think of the paragon "War Daddy", he was it, and had the body to carry it out too.RaceBannon said:Interesting Taylor takes
Obviously I've seen countless games and highlights of Ronnie Lott and Ed Reed and they deservedly are top 100 players.
I knew Taylor died to young but frankly wasn't watching the Skins when he died
I do know that @whlinder and creep are saying the same things said when he died. He had to be legit
There are actually people trying to make his case on the HOF. I doubt that will ever happen ... even Gale Sayers played more than 3 seasons. But that anybody would bother gives you a sense of what he had in front of him. He was basically a faster version of Easley and Lott, both of whom are in my top 5 all-tim fb players ever (I like safeties), and just as mean and vicious on the field.
Like I said, Atwater but deadly defending the passing game as well. 24 fucking years old, and he was defending his family in his home. But, you can't bring a machete to a gun fight, as the Italians would say.
