In the end, I think we are all being blinded by the boredom of the offseason. Matty is right, these are "voluntary" workouts.
How many of you wish Gibbs had kicked Riggins off the team for all the crap he did? Granted, Riggo was a veteran and had proven himself more than Taylor has, but read this quote from the old Bill Simmons article on the Hogs and tell me Taylor is worse: (
http://espn.go.com/page2/wash/s/simmons/020314.html)
"Just the mere mention of [Riggins] prompted four or five quick anecdotes. Remember the time Riggo hitchhiked to the NFC Championship Game and the coaches inadvertently picked him up? Remember the time Riggo pulled five chairs together, stretched out on them and took a nap during a team meeting? Remember the time Riggo retired and lived in a pup tent on the Potomac River for an entire winter?
Maybe the defining Riggo story: During one team meeting, the players heard a strange noise from inside the locker room, like the sound you hear when it just starts to pour rain. They glanced in the back and there was a groggy Riggins, lying on his back, his pants pulled down, peeing straight into the air all over himself. Gibbs and the poor coaching staff always looked the other way with Riggo, as long as he was coherent on Sundays, but this seemed a little much ... and yet the coaching staff never did anything. 'They always looked the other way with him,' said May. 'It just wasn't Gibbs's nature to constantly battle with a player like that.'"
He was often out of shape, missed or fell asleep in meetings and couldn't have been a great support in the locker room when all this was happening. Yet, he did well on the field. Gibbs turned a blind eye to all that, and I don't see this being nearly as bad.
P.S. I'm sure most of you read that article, but if you haven't, it is amazing.