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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
CooleyAsCanBe:
Go dig out your video tapes from last year's games.
Now, check out Dallas II. Who is the guy playing safety in a deep cover-2 in the final minute whose job it is not to let anyone behind him? HInt: He wears #36. He gets lured into watching the backfield and doesn't get to double the WR deep when Springs thinks he has deep help. Result: Winning TD. This is with less than a minute to play and the Cowboys in their own territory and out of timeouts and needing a TD. Hard to blame anyone else for that one.
Now go and check out Eagles night game. Taylor's man catches a pass at the 1 yard line for a first down - sorry I don't recall if was the TE or Westbrook. Next play is a handoff to Dorsey Levens who gets hit at the line of scrimmage by some guy wearing #36. But #36 forgets to wrap up and Levens manages to survive that "beastly hit" and score a TD. That was the difference in the game. Clean hit by #36 with lots of ferocity, but the result was "TD - Not Washington Redskins" - apologies to Frank Herzog for that one.
That is just from memory so when you do your film review from 2004, maybe you can show me where he singlehandedly won a game for the Skins. I must have been napping when that happened...
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SC, your logic is confusing. Are you saying that Ramsey's late interception and overall poor play for the first three quarters wasn't what cost us the Eagles game? Placing all the blame on one failed tackle or one blown coverage is flawed. Saying someone cost us that game should mean at least that, in addition to one late play, their entire performance balanced out to be negative and tipped the scales. My whole point in the first post wasn't that Taylor had game-winning plays, but that he was a positive factor on the team, outweighing his off-field antics.
MalcomConnection has pointed out Taylor's strip that stopped another touchdown against Dallas. By your own logic, Taylor "singlehandedly" won any game in which he had a touchdown saving tackle or interception and the final score was decided by less than a touchdown. The Chicago game by making the final interception, or the Vikings game by stopping Moss' deep catch down the middle (granted, he also cost us a touchdown in that game-a perfect example of why your all or nothing logic doesn’t hold water).
I'm not saying he is perfect, but blaming his missed tackle for us losing in the Eagles game is weak reasoning.