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On This Day 17 Years Ago: Sean Taylor Passed Away
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And so far, not ideal for Andrew Wiley, both in the concussion program, neither available to practice today. And I wanted to talk Danny about Shawn Taylor's death, which was 17 years ago to the day. Hard to believe it's been that. I remember where I was. I'm sure most of you do as well. At that time, what do you remember about tracking the news and waiting? Because if you remember, he got tragically shot in his home, trying to defend himself and invade home invasion took place and bad people were in his home and he got shot. It was supposed to have not killed him. It was a shot to the leg and ended up hitting an artery. We find out that he's doing better supposedly, except that that wasn't the case really. And there was some reporting that wasn't quite right and he ends up passing away. What do you remember about that time? The disbelief, right, because you, none of us are doctors, but you hear about the injury and it's awful and terrible, but this is one of those you come back from, right? This is one of those. You're going to be okay. It's going to take some time. Your shot in the leg was the report. Yeah. But okay, you're shot in the leg. That sucks. Play again soon. Yeah, that stinks. I know you're hurt already and take your time, get back, but his life was really just beginning in that way. I don't mean to make light of this or like poke at this. Brian Robinson got shot in the leg and played in October. And I just bring that up to say like when you hear someone got shot in the leg that is not the same as getting shot in the stomach or the chest or that was the original report. Yeah. And you're going, again, that's awful, but he'll be fine. And then he's not. And then it's really not. And then you see that news and you're going, that's, that, that just can't be. That just can't be because to me, the arrow was going in the opposite direction. And like that, he's going as a, as a guy, you know, hadn't even turned 25 yet. And the best football of his career was ahead of him. The best parts of life were ahead of him certainly as a, as a dad and, you know, a guy that had really mature over the first couple of years here in Washington. Remember, he had his own set of run ins like not, not terrible stuff, not like, you know, anything horrendous, but like bouts of immaturity. And there was a time where Gibbs couldn't get in touch with him. If you remember, like surrounding the off season, it's just different things were happening that weren't great. And then he started to really blossom, started to really mature before our eyes into this a superstar, gold jacket, caliber stud that was unlike anybody else in the football field. But just like the, the panoramic of his life was, was, was in the right direction. It was going great. And then all of a sudden that happened just so, just impossible to believe. He intercepted a pass every four and a half games of his career and he was such an amazing playmaker. You think about Ed Reed who played that center field safety position as well as anybody ever. He intercepted a pass throughout his career, roughly like every three or so games, right? Sean Taylor was essentially in that same zip code, just different. So what I tweeted earlier today and kind of how I feel about him is number one, I have never seen a football player that had that much size and speed in the same package. Still haven't. LaVora was close, LaVora Errington, who was the number two overall pick at a Penn State here. And by the way, there's a reason both of these guys went two and six respectively. But I've never seen a guy that was that big in that fast and it was intoxicating. It was captivating. He, he, of course, he's going to be one of your favorite players because of how he plays and how physically is and how violent the collisions are. But just that frame, he wore huge shoulder pads too and he looked giant, but he ran like a corner. He loved how he taped up his face mask, I loved everything about Sean Taylor as a player. Doors take us to summers away or winter adventures and afternoon getaways. Your dedicated Fidelity advisor can help you open those doors by working with you on a comprehensive plan to help you reach your wealth's full potential because doors were meant to be opened. Is it Fidelity.com/wealth, investment minimums apply Fidelity brokerage services LLC member NYSE SIPC? Is it just me or has TV gotten really complicated? I'm either endlessly searching for my favorite shows or subscribing to a dozen different streaming services to make sure I can watch everything I love and I'm not even saving that much money compared to my old cable bill. 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Shop great deals now on Amazon. What I revered most about him though was the physicality in a different era. So this will sound bad now, but he used to destroy receivers. He was the highlight of any knocked up segment you were going to do or jacked up. Knocked up is different. You don't want that. Different, um, that's a different thing. It's a movie with Seth Rogen. But every jacked up segment that you would do, he was going to star in it, Danny, because he would just absolutely obliterate. Think about some of the guys that were petrified of him. Todd Pinkston with his alligator arms, Patrick Creighton, Terry Glenn, uh, Terrell Owens. You name a receiver in that era in the division. They didn't want to play Washington and you had to pay them to go across the middle. They weren't willing to do it. I loved watching him, but the whole thing was awful. I've told this before, but me and my best buddy at the time, uh, who was a fellow Redskins fan, Steve, who was in the boot camp, he was in the army and I was like the guy sending him all of his sports info, Orioles one, four to two, uh, Melvin Moore, I hit a two run Homer, right? During that time, Sean Taylor gets shot and I got to tell him and I'm like, it sounds like it's going to be okay. Hey, supposedly last night he moved his hand. Everything's trending in the right direction. And I remember the next one I had to send him was he died. He's going. These are like letters. I'm sending them the boot camp. And it's just, I'll never forget like that part of it where, you know, he was getting these letters and I'm writing these recaps about our favorite player. You know, we got the Jersey. We're talking about him all the time. He is for people that weren't either old enough then or don't remember it would be the equivalent like now in terms of, um, fandom and stardom. And you know, he is, he was as popular as MacLaurin is more so even honestly. Yeah. I mean, in real time, I think he was every bit or more beloved cause that team he'd already played in a playoff game. But my point is he was a fan favorite that everybody cared about. He was the number one guy on the team through all the fans eyes. When you think about the interceptions, the, the ranging center field that the two interception game against Brett far, what he probably could have four or five and that game honestly. Yeah. Like he would make, I remember on a two play span, he broke up a pass and picked off a pass on each sideline. And I was like, I, I've never seen anything like this. We don't have this. Yeah. But so somebody could do that. They make that super fast athletic center fielder, right? There have been guys that can do that. Then you think of, you mentioned Patrick Creighton destroying that dude on that fourth down in the Monday night miracle, the best priest homes in the hole, getting picked up and thrown down in the ball flying, you know, the squirting free, just the, the, the combination. You can find someone that can do one of those things. You could, you could find a hard hitting linebacker. You could probably find a hard hitting safety. You can't find both in the same person. They just don't make that. They don't make so much to your point. And he didn't have the, like the, that super quick stride, like that, um, you know, like that, the coyote from Looney Tunes, he didn't have that kind of stride. He had these, that long gate just chewing up ground that he got the full speed quicker than you'd think for someone again at that size. It looked like a linebacker was just wandering around back there. He was so incredibly talented. And that year was the year he finally put everything together. Cause there were moments that people, I think correctly and fairly remember of maybe some over aggressiveness or some up and down inconsistency, the highlights were always there. The highlight reel spoke for itself. You can go to any YouTube page or any, you know, any historical footage and find some of the most incredible plays you're ever going to see at all the levels he played at. But there were moments where he bit on that double move or was out of position, trying to make that huge play. Young player? Of course. That last year, that was the year where you're going. He has arrived and he is now the perfect defensive football player. Well, they had not had a player before him that was an annual all pro in years and years. And they haven't had one since still. And he would have been that guy who every year would have been probably barring an injury or something, like in the conversation for first team all pro. The only other guy in the vicinity is Trent Williams who never even got all pro when he was here, but it's subsequently become that guy in San Francisco. But 17 years ago, man, I was 19 years old. How old were you? 17 years ago? 28. It's basically half half of my life ago. And that's hard to fathom too. But I also remember you want to talk about emotions. You were saying hardest locker rooms that bills locker room after they lost. I was in that locker room. That was as emotional as I've ever seen. They start the game with a breed, Dowdy on the sideline, missing man for me, the missing man, you know, 10 men on the field that Gibbs is called the two time outs in that game on accident. It lose. And then they have four straight wins after that to make the playoffs because of that locker room coming together around Sean Taylor. I remember that week at the park, I wasn't out there. But I've been told the stories of the grown men, the players coming out and addressing the media and just fallen, you know, sobbing as you'd expect. I mean, this was their brother, but the city will never be the same as a sports town. And that will always be one of those line in the sand kind of where were your moments when you found out that news about such an amazing player and kind of a son of DC in that way, athletically, a grant and Danny on the fin top of the hour. We got tickets to give away for wizards, fans. We'll give those to you next plus Penn standing joins us from Ashburn. What is the status of March on Latimore and Brian Robinson for Sunday's game against the Titans? We're about to find out. Tired of needles for weight control introducing rise weight management strips, the first ever oral dissolving semi-glutide strip. Just one strip a day melts under your tongue to help curb cravings and boost metabolism. 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17 years ago today, Washington legend Sean Taylor tragically passed away.