Taylor to Return w/o Restructure or Paycut

[DirtyLandry]

I'm not ready to write this guy off yet. As I said in another thread, he suffered a life threatening injury and was asked to play out of position (while injured). Let's see what he can do when healthy...It's not like we have any other options of a replacement outside of the draft. Teams are locking up their blue chip defensive linemen and with good reason.

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by DirtyLandry

I'm not ready to write this guy off yet. As I said in another thread, he suffered a life threatening injury and was asked to play out of position (while injured). Let's see what he can do when healthy...It's not like we have any other options of a replacement outside of the draft. Teams are locking up their blue chip defensive linemen and with good reason.

What is he replacing though (is the $8 million question)? We just extended AC who is really only suited to play RDE... Carter was an OLB earlier in his career and was ineffective and has openly said he doesn't like playing there. I think we should all be able to agree at least that Taylor is a very poor fit at LDE because he's not a run-stopper so he's not "replacing" anyone there. And there's not a lot of evidence that he'll make a great WLB when we could 1) sign a value FA like Boley to step in or 2) draft a promising OLB in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd round. I say w/ sincerity i hope i'm wrong, i hope JT proves me wrong and i'll eat crow happily, but this just looks like a poor decision. Don't even get me started on the fact that not even restructuring him severely limits what we can do to help the team in FA now.