Sean Taylor... Would he be considered as the best?

[Tiko7523]

would Sean Taylor #36 redskin be the best safety in the NFL today if he was still alive?

i remember watching him and was watching some highlights and he was just a freak and seemed like a good guy and worked hard too.

i remember reggie wayne letting go off that football in the pro bowl game scared to get hit.

[muggins]

no

[Scoop 24]

Throne is Ed reeds till he decides to hang em up.

[3bitz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scoop 24

Throne is Ed reeds till he decides to hang em up.

Indeed.

[clerks37]

He was a beast but Ed Reed is the man. I would bring up Bob Sanders but he is always hurt.

[elgreazy1]

I would say no mainly because we never know what could have happened with his play as years progressed. Look at a guy like Roy Williams (S) formerly of the Cowboys and Bengals. The kid came into the league as a blue-chipper, got multiple Pro Bowl, was becoming a marquee player, etc and then teams learned to gameplan him. From there he went from All Pro to a liability.

Not saying the same would have happened to Taylor but you can't discount what the genius minds of alot of these assistant & coordinator coaches do. These guys are paid to think and gameplan; if Taylor didn't progress his game further than what it really was - an athletic freak who was a ball hawk/enforcer type - and didn't learn the position as it should be played the same could/would/should happen.

But then again, nobody will ever know.

[Adam Dayton]

Ed Reed has a magnet to the ball and is perhaps the best pure ballhawk ever to play the game, but since his neck injury he just has not been as effective in tackling. At this point, Polamalu is the most rounded safety in the game since his is still a physical force on the field. It's a question of preference-

a safety that can cover and tackle well and is physically impactful on many plays or

a safety that can cover historically well but is a limiting presence on physical plays. He is not a physical presence on every play, but definitely a "mental factor " as the qb always has to account for him.

[wwharton]

If I were to guess I'd say yes, Taylor would be the best safety in the NFL today. He honestly looked like LeBron on the football field (a man running with boys). Generally I'd say he'd need to be spectacular to knock off both Reed and Polamalu, but since we know exactly where those two were this year (one never 100% bc of injury and the other out most of the year bc of injury) then I'd assume yes, Taylor would've taken the crown for '09.