Taylor on offense?!

[jdlea]

Another reason I don't like it is because I don't take this as the coaching staff showing faith in Taylor, I think this is an indictment of the recieving corps. While I like Patten and Moss, they're not great red zone targets, niether is Thrash. I don't think Jacobs and Brown should even be on the team.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by jdlea

Another reason I don't like it is because I don't take this as the coaching staff showing faith in Taylor, I think this is an indictment of the recieving corps. While I like Patten and Moss, they're not great red zone targets, niether is Thrash. I don't think Jacobs and Brown should even be on the team.

I guess that's one way of thinking about it, or you could say it's just another thing for defenses to think about.

The bottom line is Taylor is the most physically gifted player on the team regardless of position. Why not toss him in there inside the 5 and see what happens? All around the league we're seeing more of this kind of thing, teams putting their best athletes in different spots in certain situations. I don't think it's an indictment of that position, it's just taking advantage of using your most talented players.

[jdlea]

You can look at it that way too. I'm not denying ST's talent. He's my favorite player on the team, next to Ramsey and maybe he's tied with LA, but I just don't like putting him in on the goal line because I'm afraid he'll start finding the field on offense a lot. If he's only a goal line reciever like Vrabel is to the Pats then that's fine, I still think it makes the other WRs look bad.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by jdlea

You can look at it that way too. I'm not denying ST's talent. He's my favorite player on the team, next to Ramsey and maybe he's tied with LA, but I just don't like putting him in on the goal line because I'm afraid he'll start finding the field on offense a lot. If he's only a goal line reciever like Vrabel is to the Pats then that's fine, I still think it makes the other WRs look bad.

I don't see Taylor getting on the field on offense unless we're inside the 5.

You said it yourself with Vrabel and the Pats, is that an indictment on their WR corps?

People see the Patriots doing that and they say it's brilliant, we're doing it and you're saying it makes the WRs look bad? It it works I don't think anybody is going to care how it looks.

[jdlea]

That's a good point. I don't think our WRs are anywhere near the class of the Pats, but I see what you're saying. I have a big issue with the WRs on this team after number 1 & 2 anyway. So, that's part of the reason I look it at that way. I still think if we had a big target he wouldn't be in there.