A Rare Sean Taylor High School Football Highlights Video Emerges
by Kevin Ewoldt on Jan 18, 2012 9:45 PM EST
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The fine Miami Hurricanes website, CanesInSight.com, just posted an amazing, four minute video of Sean Taylor tearing up the high school competition. I definitely have never seen any of this footage before, as I'm sure no one has. What's Included: Sean's standard, shoulder-hit-and-land-on-the-guy, interceptions, and mostly, rushing the ball over the field and breaking ankles.
A quick history reminder, Taylor attended Gulliver Preparatory High School in Dade County playing running back, linebacker, and defensive back. Over his high school career, Taylor broke Emmitt Smith's TD record scoring a whopping 44 touchdowns. Gulliver Prep's football field was renamed in 2009 to Sean Taylor Memorial Field.
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Great find Kev, Rec'd.
It will be a long time until we see another intimidating safety with the range, ball skills, hitting power, and general feel for the game in the NFL.
What is Polamalu?
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by Kevin Ewoldt on Jan 18, 2012 10:03 PM EST up reply actions
I forgot to add
coverage skills. From what I saw of Sean, he could come down and cover a guy better than Polamalu. But you’re right, Polamalu has the other skills.
Plus I said another, meaning on top of the safeties we have in the game now (am I reaching there?)
a little bit, Polamalu can def. cover, though coming out of college I thought that would be his weakness
i do agree that guys like that are so extremely rare
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by Steve Shoup on Jan 18, 2012 10:13 PM EST up reply actions
Polamalu is an excellent player.
At his peak, he’s probably a better safety than ST was (although Sean’s final season was pretty insane, and I don’t think he was at his peak yet). However, I don’t think any other safety in the last 15 years was on the same level as far as hitting and intimidation. Polamalu can bring the lumber, but I don’t think he can bring it as hard.
"Dominant" is an adjective.
"Dominate" is a verb.
We'll work on "Dominance" once we get the first two figured out.
Yeah polly ain't even close
Taylor couldn’t even play in todays nfl. All the flags he was getting back then? Now they would just call him on every hit even though most of his tackles were perfect form, just incredibly violent.
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Good find...
…but with every awesome play, my heart just got heavier. I’m still not over the truly tragic loss. RIP 21.
Man watching him run was a thing of beauty, i will never forget the the blocked FG from the Dallas game that he returned and got the Facemask penalty that set up Novak
While it’s obvious that he was born to hit, he could have also been an incredible running back. I feel like he would have been like Bo Jackson or Herschel Walker.
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Easy Rec'd
This video further proves that Sean was a man among boys at every level. It’s not a stretch to say that he had the potential to be the best ever. Polamalu who?
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by Diesel44 on Jan 18, 2012 10:42 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
He was the most talented safety to ever play the game.
He was also the hardest hitting NFL player I have ever seen. In his final year, even though he missed two games before he died, he was leading the league in interceptions. He became the complete player. His NFL history breaking Brett Favre interceptions are two of the many Sean Taylor moments I will never forget. And I forgive Santana for losing us that game.
More importantly, he was a father. Hopefully his daughter is doing well. She should be proud of her father’s accomplishments. This is a great video and he was a beast.
Skins rule
by Horcasitas4 on Jan 18, 2012 11:10 PM EST up reply actions
as a Buckeye?
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RIP WKR
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by David St. Martin on Jan 18, 2012 11:27 PM EST up reply actions
Sean Taylor had the talent and natural ability like I've never seen.
I didn’t know much about him in college, then he came to the Redskins. The first time I saw him play my mouth dropped. I had never seen anyone hit like that.
He would have been the best ever.
Sean Taylor would have been to safeties what Reggie White and Lawrence Taylor were to defensive ends and linebackers.
Polamalu couldn’t carry his cleats.
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
by iH8dallas on Jan 19, 2012 6:45 AM EST via mobile reply actions
He stood out watching Miami games. What Butch Davis said is so great: “Teams didnt realize when they threw an INT to Sean, they just threw an INT to the best RB in the country. We didnt use him at RB bc we had so much depth there.”
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by Kevin Ewoldt on Jan 19, 2012 7:38 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
ST21
I don’t know what I can say about Sean Taylor that hasn’t already been said, but one look at this highlight and it’s obvious that he was blessed to play football. What I find even more amazing is that he made the same type of plays in the pros, RIP Sean!
Beck to the future!
Easily one of the best players to ever play the game
Thirty plus years of watching the NFL and IMO he was well on his way to the hall of fame. Lets remember he was 24 when passed. He still had his best years well ahead of him. He changed the perception of the opposing teams receivers just by stepping on the field. Ocho Cinco once said that Taylor was the only guy in the NFL he was afraid of and we all know what he did to Terrel Owens over his short career.
At 24,Taylor was developing into every bit the safety that Polamalu and Reed are but, with the fear of inpeccable timed ferocious hits that those two didn’t bring nearly as well. In his final season thru 9 games when he was killed, he was leading the league in INT’s and it was much talked about that he was constantly studying on how to become the best at his position.
We missed out on a special career but I am thankful we got to see as much as we did. Someday we will be talking about how a safety in the league reminds us so much of Sean. There is some very good DB’s in the league but as for right now, there is almost NO DB in the NFL with his unique range of skills and athletisicm.
Thats the point:
Lets remember he was 24 when passed
He had shown various flashes of his abilities up to that point…imagine what he would have done over the next 10 years of his career after putting it all together. Man that would have been great to see.
by StephanHart on Jan 19, 2012 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
His death really dealt the Skin's org. a major blow.
He was leading the league in INT’s at the time of his death.
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