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BBI Article on Cooper Taylor Surgery + Possible IR

Eric from BBI : Admin : 8/20/2014 5:46 pm
FYI.
Cooper Taylor Needs Surgery, Potentially Headed to IR - ( New Window )
Sucks...  
ZGiants98 : 8/20/2014 6:18 pm : link
He was having a great camp. Was really looking forward to him being the third safety this year.
We've had some tough deals  
dune69 : 8/20/2014 6:22 pm : link
with quality safeties the past few years. KP's knees, Chad Jones accident, Stevie Brown's ACL, Will Hill's brain, and now Cooper Taylor cannot seem to stay on the field with some unfortunate injuries. Football is a tough sport and the safety position takes a tough football player.
We've had some tough deals  
dune69 : 8/20/2014 6:24 pm : link
with quality safeties the past few years. KP's knees, Chad Jones accident, Stevie Brown's ACL, Will Hill's brain, and now Cooper Taylor cannot seem to stay on the field with some unfortunate injuries. Football is a tough sport and the safety position takes a tough football player.
Post-Surgery  
Percy : 8/20/2014 6:43 pm : link
Says it takes twelve weeks after surgery to return to action. IR?
It looked like  
Doomster : 8/20/2014 6:50 pm : link
he was starting to "get it".......and now another injury.....while he could be a good player, he is damaged goods....kind of reminds of the safety for the Colts....
poor kid  
spike : 8/20/2014 6:55 pm : link
.
Hope he's back better than ever but  
PeterS : 8/20/2014 7:46 pm : link
I see a sad trend here. Guy get hurt as a rookie and misses significant time. Second season is basically his first. Gets hurt again or gets lost on the depth chart where career gets derailed. See Jonathan Goff, David Wilson, Travis Beckum, Clint Sintim, Chad Jones and Tim Carter to name a few too many.
Just never understood all the excitement around BBI...  
M.S. : 8/21/2014 4:48 am : link

...over a walking medicine-cabinet like Cooper Taylor.

Reminds me of JoMo.

Hard to get jazzed over fragile players who almost never see live action.
Kid was always hurt in  
LauderdaleMatty : 8/21/2014 6:00 am : link
College too. IR for sure.
You don't give up on a young player early in his career when he  
SGMen : 8/21/2014 6:39 am : link
has shown this kind of promise.

Let him have his surgery and then the timeline for recovery. There is no guarantee he'll always be hurt going forward. Now, granted, if he is IR'd and is hurt yet again next camp then you of course part ways. The NFL / Football is a brutal sport and some guys are unlucky.

There are few "Eli Manning's" who seemingly are never missing games.
Bad break for him. Definitely going to IR  
Jimmy Googs : 8/21/2014 7:53 am : link
We'll see you next spring Taylor.

Safety roster is done - Rolle, Brown, Demps and Berhe
...  
SamTheTram : 8/21/2014 8:36 am : link
When people mention that he was always hurt in college, are they referring to his heart condition? Was there anything else?
It always bugged be when people said Hill should be cut because  
Blue Baller : 8/21/2014 9:54 am : link
he couldn't be relied on.

Outside of Rolle, what safety have we had that we could rely on? Either they gut injured or just can't play.

Sure, Hill's MO for being unreliable is a shitton less admirable than an injury but the end result is the same.

I think he was cut because he was told  
Hades07 : 8/21/2014 10:16 am : link
that if he got suspended again he would be gone. The Giants could not go back on that or make an exception and expect players in the future to buy into last chances.
I know that Taylor broke bones in each of his hands...  
SB : 8/21/2014 10:17 am : link
...in college but he played through it. Also some other stuff. Link to Newsday article below. No doubt he's tough, but clearly appears to be injury prone.

Quote:
Cooper Taylor has had plenty of injuries in his football career. He broke both of his hands in his senior year at Richmond (and played through them with padded casts), nearly tore his pectoral muscle while bench pressing during summer workouts last June and missed the final three games of 2011 with a knee injury that he initially suffered in the preseason and re-aggravated in November.





Newsday - April 27, 2013 - ( New Window )
The expanded practice squad has room for two safeties.  
Big Blue Blogger : 8/21/2014 11:36 am : link
The team can hang onto a couple of young guys like Barnett and Gordon, if they have shown potential in camp and preseason. Additional practice reps against the first- and second-team offense should help get them ready to serve as extra depth in case of an injury to Rolle, Brown, Demps or Berhe.

With the amended eligibility rules for the extra two PS spots, the Giants could also look at safeties with a year or two of NFL experience who get cut by other teams. Still a very unfortunate development, as Taylor's toolset gave Fewell some interesting options that the other safeties don't offer.

He's probably done for the year. Considering the timeframe for his recovery and the requirement that the player "Designated to Return" from IR be on the 53-man roster at the time of his designation, Taylor isn't a great use of that tag. On the other hand, if the Giants don't put him on IR by next Wednesday, when rosters shrink to 75, it will suggest that they at least consider him a candidate for designation.
SB - he also only played 4 games in his last year at GT due to injury  
Blue Baller : 8/21/2014 11:41 am : link
all this is in addition to the heart condition

Hades - I agree that is why they had to cut him, i just wish they didn't draw such a hard line in the sand.

When its all said and done, he is just a reliable as almost every other safety on the roster not named rolle
they may be regretting  
Hades07 : 8/21/2014 7:34 pm : link
drawing a hard line also, but once they did they couldn't backtrack.
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