« Joe Gibbs Has Officially Lost His Mind | Home | Clinton’s TD Celebration/Tribute to Sean »
Skins Start Ten Players on Defense
By Chris Mottram | December 2, 2007
The Redskins played sans free safety on their first defensive play against the Bills today in honor of Sean Taylor. It was a nice gesture. It would’ve been nicer if the Bills had played along and taken a knee or something instead of running for 25 yards:
Topics: Redskins, Sean Taylor | 14 Comments »
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 PM
I’m pretty sure they did play along by not throwing towards the open half of the field.
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:45 PM
I didn’t get this tribute, although it does teach the lesson that, on any given play, Taylor was worth 25 yards to the Redskins defense.
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:50 PM
I’m pretty sure Gibbs got the idea from Carroll/USC’s tribute to Mario Danelo. Though that made sense being on a PAT and non-play.
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:07 PM
What do you mean you “didn’t get this tribute”? It’s pretty straight forward, no?
289, I was being sarcastic with the whole “wish they’d played along” thing. It was, after all, a football game. I didn’t expect them to take a knee or something.
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:26 PM
My bad but I’ve read several pieces today where people believed that we should have taken a knee.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Yeah I was thinking the same thing earlier – maybe not a knee, but how about a run up the gut and not off-tackle?
On the other hand, I also think that Sean Taylor would want whatever was done in his honor to be done at full speed and with as much contact as possible.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 PM
What’s the difference between the two runs? It’s not like a running play is targeted at a safety. Especially when it’s a 4th string rookie RB from Coe College.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:25 PM
I understood it, but, like the memorial fund being for Taylor’s daughter rather than, say, children of murder victims in financial need, I didn’t agree with it. But if it helped his teammates heal, good for them.
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 PM
I kinda think Taylor would’ve preferred they remembered him by laying dude out, not giving up a first down.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Interesting, from Redskins Insider:
Gibbs told us he did not have a problem with Williams doing it – though you got the strong impression he would have preferred to have known before hand – and when asked if Gibbs was okay with the move Williams said: “Sure he is. Yep.”
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:21 PM
Imagine if they had given up a play-action bomb on the play?
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:11 PM
I’m with you SVP, only I’m thinking flea flicker
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 PM
I am not sure if anyone saw the Hawaii-Washington game on Saturday night, but since I live on the West Coast I was able to watch it. But Hawaii had “ST” stickers on their helmet. Sean Taylor had no affiliation with Hawaii besides showing them what Boom King means, but those kids showed what class is.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:15 AM
Or for another take on the story.
http://contractyear.blogspot.com/2007/12/on-taylor-and-tributes.html