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 | | Subject: Taylor's career back on upswing Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:36 am | |
| Friday, September 23, 2011
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ike Taylor knows the highs and lows of playing cornerback in the NFL, the one position on defense where you can be the dart one minute, and dartboard the next.
He's riding a high right now, has been for a while. He signed a big, new contract just before camp started, and now he has allowed just one pass completion over him in two games even though he has been tailing the opponents' top receiver each game and playing with a cast on his broken left thumb.
But Taylor knows how quickly things can change, as they did the previous time he got a big, new contract. The Steelers won the Super Bowl after the 2005 season when coach Bill Cowher began assigning Taylor to the opponents' top receivers, starting with Chad Johnson in Cincinnati. Then, in '06, the Steelers gave Taylor his first big contract.
And then Cowher benched him. It happened Nov. 26 at Baltimore when he did not start and it lasted for the next five games. Cowher replaced Taylor with ... Bryant McFadden. It was distasteful to him.
"I wish that on nobody, what I went through," Taylor said.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11266/1176926-66-0.stm?cmpid=steelers.xml#ixzz1YkcUJ6uz
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| | Subject: Re: Taylor's career back on upswing Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:16 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: Taylor's career back on upswing Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:38 pm | |
| _________________  -"I stand corrected... But I absolutely and wholeheartedly fart in the general direction of almost every other thing you have posted to this point."- | |
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| | Subject: Re: Taylor's career back on upswing Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:58 pm | |
| and to think you guys eliminated him in the vote of game  ........  _________________  "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." - Butch | |
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| | Subject: Re: Taylor's career back on upswing Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:29 pm | |
| - vasteeler wrote:
- and to think you guys eliminated him in the vote of game ........
He's good and all for now but when you stack him up against the competition on that roster, he just can't carry some of those guys' jock straps. _________________  60 MIN 53 MEN 1 NATION STEELERS NATION  I am the MAN that created the MYTH that started the LEGEND
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| | Subject: Re: Taylor's career back on upswing Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:06 pm | |
| - stlrtruck wrote:
- vasteeler wrote:
- and to think you guys eliminated him in the vote of game ........
He's good and all for now but when you stack him up against the competition on that roster, he just can't carry some of those guys' jock straps.  _________________ -"I stand corrected... But I absolutely and wholeheartedly fart in the general direction of almost every other thing you have posted to this point."- | |
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| | Subject: Re: Taylor's career back on upswing Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:58 am | |
| _________________ "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." - Butch | |
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