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.
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.
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....
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...
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.
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...
...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.
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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.
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
...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.
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.
Safety roster is done - Rolle, Brown, Demps and Berhe
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.
Newsday - April 27, 2013 - ( New Window )
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.
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