I don't think I have any safeties. And I have to strike at this guy before someone takes him, and I trust you people to ignore the other guys I want. He was the Chase Young of safeties. He is
Sean Taylor
Taylor was a living force of nature; like Elsa in Frozen 2, but a lot bigger and a lot more violent. 6'2" and 212 leebs and with the ability to take the fastest path to inflict maximum pain. His ability to arrive at full-speed sprint was uncanny. If the WR had plans of making any moves, he'd somehow predict those in advance and still be where the WR was gonna be. At full, crushing speed. Hitting so hard I think he was trying to create some sort of Mortal Kombat fatality on every play. He was fantastic at reading plays. He was always at the ball at the earliest possible opportunity, be it stopping a pass play or run. Teams would try to throw to whatever side of the field Taylor was furthest from, but there was a problem with that plan: Football fields are too small for that feeble shit. Taylor could cross the entire field to get there, and if anything that extra space just ensured your receiver was going to take the biggest hit possible. At one point, Belichick put together some tape to show Brady and his offense just how much of the field Taylor could cover and their collective response was "Oh my God." There was basically no part of the field he couldn't cover. No place anyone could be safe.
Taylor combined a lot of traits that I worship in players. A singularity of the most Beeftacular player there can be. Blazing speed. Size. Crushing hits. Incredible ability to read plays; sure, he had INTs where he just big-boyed receivers and won the ball, but he was also brilliant at cutting under a route at impossible speed for a fingertip grab...or reading the play and going to the most logical part of the field and having the opposing QB seemingly pass the ball straight to him...a feat of play-reading some may recall I use to hype up a certain new NFLer. He paired his formidable physical talents with some absolutely great braining. He also employed a technique I've long lamented the loss of, laterals. In the old days, blockers didn't always run ahead of ball carriers; often, the ball carrier would run in front, absorb a couple tackles, and lateral the ball to a trailing player as they went down for more gain. Taylor did this after taking the ball away. I loved it. I miss him and I'm sad now and no longer want to write or I'll get sadder. The "what could have been" question is what makes me so devoted and eager for Chase Young, another singularity of Beef Values. A Beefularity. That I was robbed of Young is unacceptable. I will have revenge. Taylor will do this revenge by smashing CF88's players so hard their ribs flop out of their buttholes and their adenoids pop out of their eyes.
Look at this.
@Young Sandwich
