People need to give Taylor another chance. He has looked terrible these past few games, but early in the season he was playing extremely well and in the Oklahoma State game and the Missouri game he was throwing the ball quite well. Let's see what he can do when he's healthy again. My only concern is that I truly think the other players on the team don't like him, and I think that along with the high expectations and critical fan base have caused what was once a confident/cocky kid turn into a kid trying to force the action and not trusting his instincts. Two plays stood out in my mind:
1) After Taylor threw the TD pass, he barely celebrated with anybody.
2) When Taylor got hurt, literally NOBODY went over to ask how he's doing or comfort him.
He shot puts the football when he throws. He locks onto his primary receiver seldomly moving on in a progression. He can't read a defense. These things have been there the whole year. Okis State has a crap secondary, so as nice as it was to see Taylor throw well there it was a bit of smoke and mirrors. Mizzou had already been gashed so bad on the ground that you or I probably could have had a decent throwing day against that defense that would take three steps toward the line fearing the run. It has been there in plain sight all year.
We've seen what he can do when healthy. Run past piss poor defenses. Even when healthy he couldn't shake a defender one on one in the open field. Watch the season, again it is plainly obvious. The only juke I saw out of Taylor was in the opener at the one yard line. He is a walking ball security issue with good straight line speed. That could sum up Taylor.
As far as his attitude it has sucked since the injury but his ego has been there the whole year. A friend of mine on the team told me flatout the OLine was pissed at him in the SDSU game and could care less what happened to him.
A question to you, did you ever see Taylor celebrate with any of his teammates after everytime they scored? Seldom occurance. The Colorado game summed it up the best for me with this kid. He sat in front of the heater the WHOLE game. Never moved to listen to the offensive meetings on the bench, never talked to Cody(well he talked to Kody Spano a couple of times) or Lee, and never once sported a headset to follow what was going on offensively. A kid that cares would have been up there with the rest of the back ups watching first hand what defenses try to do against our crap offense and learned all he could.
Whatever goes on from here with Taylor, I could care less. Until he shows an attitude of wanting to be the leader, whatever.
:rant
