Packers sign T Herb Taylor

go.pack.go.
Veteran Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

Per Jason Wilde via twitter:

"@jasonjwilde: He's no #Tausch: The #Packers have signed T Herb Taylor, who played for Chiefs in 2007-'08. Out of football since '09. Derek Sherrod to IR."

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Nonstopdrivel
Preferred Member

13 years ago

Wow, the best guy available hasn't played in 3 years?

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

13 years ago

Wow, the best guy available hasn't played in 3 years?

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

Why not? It's not as if he'll be charged with protecting anything of value.

nerdmann
Premier Member

13 years ago

Wow, the best guy available hasn't played in 3 years?

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

Ted Thompson knows something.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

go.pack.go.
Veteran Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

I guess the tackle we have on the practice squad really sucks.

Nonstopdrivel
Preferred Member

13 years ago

It actually was a serious comment on my part. I find it hard to believe that there isn't some Div I graduate who never got a tryout -- or some practice squad player somewhere -- who couldn't be better than a guy out of football for three years. If he really is the best option out there, that says a lot about the state of OLmen in the NFL these days.

musccy
Veteran Member

13 years ago

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

I thought the same thing. You see this with a punter or kicker MAAAAYYYBBBEEEE after a year-long hiatus - but I've never heard of ANY position with a 3 year break picked up mid-season.

go.pack.go.
Veteran Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

Just because we signed him doesn't mean that he was the "best" option out there. We all know that Ted Thompson goes about business in a way that nobody but himself (maybe his staff) understands. But I support it 100% because he is a genius.

wpr
Preferred Member

13 years ago

It is one thing to pick up a player that hasn't played in the NFL in so long. But it sure makes you wonder when he has not been good enough to play such juggernaut offensive lines as KC, Denver and the Giants .

The 6-foot-4, 305-pound Taylor played in 18 games (including one start) for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2007-08. He then was briefly on the Denver Broncos’ roster late in the 2009 season. He didn’t make a team either of the last two seasons after being in training camp with the New York Giants in 2010 and the Broncos again this past summer.

Porforis
Veteran Member

13 years ago

#10

Any word if he attended any workouts? I'll let the coaching staff determine talent and I'm all for flying in everyone and his brother for workouts, but kind of odd that we'd just up and sign someone like this. As NSD pointed out, I'm a bit surprised there's nobody better stashed away on a practice squad somewhere. Unless this guy kept himself in playing shape the last 3 years, I'm a bit afraid a bullrush will blast this guy back about 10 feet.

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