Giants awarded OT on waivers
by Ed Valentine on Feb 8, 2010 4:44 PM EST
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From the Giants:
The Giants have been awarded offensive tackle Herb Taylor off waivers from Denver.
Taylor, 6-3, 295 pounds, was originally a sixth-round draft choice by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2007. In two seasons with the Chiefs, Taylor played in 18 games with one start (at left tackle on Oct. 5, 2008 at Carolina). Although he has primarily played left tackle in this career, has also filled in at the guard and tackle spots on the right side.
Taylor was waived by Kansas City on Sept. 4, 2009 and signed by Denver on Dec. 9. He was on the active roster for one game (Dec. 13 at Indianapolis) but did not play. He was waived by the Broncos on Dec. 19 before being re-signed on Dec. 29 and waived again on Jan. 2, 2010.
My take: Maybe the guy has a shot to fit as a backup lineman. He has some versatility. At the least, he has some experience and figures to be better than the collection of training camp fodder the Giants had in Albany last summer.
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I'll give the guy a fair shot to make the team..
But if you can’t find a starting gig on the line in Kansas City, I’m not sure I want him taking snaps with the G Men
Well
When you consider his true competition for a spot Whimper and Koets maybe he has a shot at a backup slot.
Read a couple threads that mentioned Taylor over at arrowhead pride
Based on his size and how he’s bounced around, it seems like Taylor might be a pure LT. The guys at AHP posted that he actually was really solid when brandon albert was injured last year. Then he got picked up by yet another team with a stud left tackle (Ryan Clady). Not being able to beat out those two doesn’t necessarily mean much.
Who knows? Maybe with smaller bookend tackles, we’d do better against those speed rushers in the NFC East (Carter, Orakpo, Cole, Parker, Spencer, Ware)?
Haha, then we could kick Diehl inside for seubert, help solidify the interior line against the big guys in the conference (Haynesworth, Ratliff+Company).
Ah man, the offseason. “When imaginations go wild and everyone’s a Super Bowl contender.” I’m sure this’ll get boring eventually. Not yet though :)
I like the quantity of positions he can play...
I don’t know about with how much quaility, but the versatility is useful. Nothing wrong with letting him compete for a job, and either step up, or maybe push someone else to. Decent move – cheap, perhaps some upside, no big downside.
Another alternative if McKenzie gets hurt again is never a bad thing.
by mclaren_is_the_best on Feb 8, 2010 7:07 PM EST reply actions
It certainly can't hurt....
I’m about sick of Whimper’s act anyway….and he can play G? even better.
might as well give him a shot.
"If you don't know what you're doing... just rush the quarterback" - LT
On Whimper and Koets
Exactly how much opportunity have either of them had??
But competition in training camp is always a good thing.
The had opportunities to show what they can do in training camp
And it shows how little confidence TC has in them if he would rather have Boothe come in for McKenzie in 2008 over them.
by mclaren_is_the_best on Feb 8, 2010 10:17 PM EST up reply actions
i agree w/ mcclaren...
whimper has been here for like 3 or 4 years. He was a converted TE. If he was ever going to play it would have been this year when they had Beatty check in as an eligible receiver. If anyone should have lined up on the end and acted as a TE it should have been Whimper…not Beatty.
"If you don't know what you're doing... just rush the quarterback" - LT
This is a good move
If the Giants have ideas of moving Diehl to guard and trying Beatty at LT full time, it’s a good idea to get a decent backup for him.
not worth caring about
Anyone cut by the Chiefs (horrible o-line) and Denver (bad interior line) is not worth even mentioning in an article. You need to keep your eyes on the prize. Which, as far as I am concerned, is Gary Brackett, whose season ended last night after a 12-tackle effort and one pass defensed. Also, a veteran backup QB would be nice since Carr may be gone.
Whimper should be gone no matter what. No reason to even sign a player to take his spot now.
Performance by players in a bad situation is difficult to judge.
Just because the Chiefs are a bad team right now doesn’t mean that that all their players are second rate. It’s just more complicated than that.
As an example look at tight end Vishantie Shiancoe. He looked like a dud on our team so we dumped him yet he just had a brilliant year with the Vikings.
by giant fan since 57 on Feb 9, 2010 6:01 AM EST reply actions
Shiancoe
We did not dump Shiancoe, we just did not match the huge contract offer that the Vikings gave him. We were not going to give 5 years $18 million to our backup TE.
The Chiefs are certainly not a team to emulate when it comes to personnel decisions. They sat Derrick Johnson all year and did not give Toomer a fair shot. But offseason signings of unemployed free agent offensive lineman typically have the equivalent impact of your QB changing shampoo.
Maybe we didn't dump him
but he still didn’t show talent anything like he has at Minnesota.
Emulating Kansas City has nothing to do with the decision surrounding Taylor. A case could be made that we didn’t give Shiancoe a fair chance. Based on his performance in 2009 the Vikings knew more about his talent better than we did.
The point is that you cannot predict the potential of a player by the record of a team or for that manner by the coaching or management’s performance.
by giant fan since 57 on Feb 9, 2010 5:48 PM EST reply actions
he was stuck behind Shockey
Who went berserk if at least 50% of passes weren’t thrown his way. Also Shockey told him not to re-sign with team as he would be stuck behind him (From Ralph Vacchiano)
But he isn’t exactly a headline player. In an offense that spreads the ball around, he didn’t do any better than Kevin Boss, who seems like an after thought in the Giants offense.
by giantblue63 on Feb 10, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
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