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Originally Posted by TambaBerry
The guy was the best safety in my opinion at that young age. Sure fire hall of famer better then Berry could have dreamed of and I loved berry
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Eh.
He was good, but wasn't he just Darren Sharper without the post-career rape? Would Sharper have coasted into the Hall without the sexual assault stuff? Man, I don't really think so.
If he played a full, healthy career (not a given for anyone), I still don't think he gets into the rarified air of guys like Reed, Lott, Woodson, etc....
Maybe Brian Dawkins? But what made Dawkins a HOFer was that he was still a great player from 31 through 36 and I don't think you can say categorically that
anyone is going to be able to age that well until they actually do it.
Taylor had a very good start to his career and had put himself in a position that, had he continued to improve and then maintained his prime for a 10 year period into his mid-30s, he'd have been a HOF candidate. I just think that requires a lot of assumptions that aren't easily made in a sport where injuries are this frequent and the wall sneaks up on players a lot sooner than some expect...