Oh no..i spelled a name wrong...forgive me while i cry my tears...
You didn't spell his name wrong. You got the whole first name incorrect. Big difference there chumly.
So if your blocking is so good why couldn't you block jason taylor when he had no help on the other side? and why will you suddenly get him (even though you haven't been able to in YEARS)when he has a legitimate threat opposite him...and what happened the last time jason had an above average rusher opposite from him???? Oh yeah..he led the league in sacks with adawale ogunleye opposite him...almost forgot about that...
I got news for you, Taylor had help on the other side last year. Their names were Kevin Carter and Matt Roth, 1st of all. 2nd of all, in the 1st Miami game with Light still getting into game shame from his broken leg of last season and Koppen still getting into shape from his injury, Taylor was held to 1 sack and the Phins lost. Now, I am pretty sure that O'Callaghan was the guy starting at RT. And he was a rookie.
In the 2nd game, O'Callaghan was out and replaced by Kaczur, who had a terrible game. Brady had a terrible game also. But Taylor still only had 1 sack.
Now, about your claim of Ogunleye being AVERAGE. That is a laugh. Ogunleye, when healthy, is a damn good DE. In fact, its what allowed Mark Anderson to have such a good year last year. Because teams had to focus on Ogunleye.
Now, how Taylor does this year all depends on the Defense that the Phins run. If they run a 4-3, I don't expect Taylor to be nearly as good as he proved he's actually BETTER from the OLB spot int he 3-4 than from the DE spot in the 4-3. Also, I wouldn't be talking about Porter as much as I would be Matt Roth. Roth is going to be a bigger influence there.
No one said Taylor wasn't good. However, you are totally discounting how good other teams pass rush is. And that is your mistake.
BTW, against the Chargers, the Pats had a healthy Daniel Graham and a healthy Nick Kaczur. Matt Light and Dan Koppen were hitting their strides and Logan Mankins was playing like an All-Pro. Those things all factored in to the Pats shutting down the Chargers VAUNTED pass rush. Will it be a tough game? Damn straight. It always is. Who will win? Who knows. I sure as hell don't.
But I am also not on another team's board pounding my chest and pretending that I do or pretending like my team has no flaws when its currently one of the worst managed teams in the league.