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Taylor sounds off
Dolphins DE Jason Taylor, speaking on a conference call with New England reporters today, was frank when discussing the state of his 0-6 team.
"I thought last year when we were kind of a sexy pick for the Super Bowl and whatever, I thought it was still very premature for people to be thinking that we were going to be that good because we won a handful of games at the end of the previous season. I knew we would have some issues last season. I didn’t think we would be as bad as we were, but do I think we’ve taken a step back? Yes. I think we have," Taylor said.
"Everyone is afraid to use that term 'rebuilding'. Everyone wants to put different terms on it and call it different things, but fans and players and people in general can see through all of that, that façade and see what it really is. At this point, we’re in a rebuilding stage and sometimes to rebuild I think you have to tear down before you build up. I know every team reloads or retools or whatever you want to call it every off-season, but some need more than others. Obviously I know the situation we’re in now. It’s very clear and easy to see where we are and I’m not going to tiptoe around that, nor do I like that. The Patriots are going in one direction and we have gone in the other and it’s very disappointing."
TV NOTE: Sunday’s CBS doubleheader game featuring the New England Patriots (5-0) at the Dallas Cowboys (5-0) was viewed by 29.1 million fans -- ranking as the most-watched game on an NFL Sunday since Dallas-San Francisco on Nov. 10, 1996 (29.7 million viewers on FOX). The New England-Dallas game topped the week’s second-most watched show by more than nine million viewers (CSI, 19.8 million viewers) and is the most-watched show of this TV season.
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(6)The question I must ask is.......who is in worse shape, the Dolphins or the Falcons?
the rams
What's really incredible about those ratings numbers is that some (if not all) of California was stuck with the Raiders game for most of the Pats game. It's hard to imagine how big the ratings would have been if California had been able to watch the Pats as well.
How refreshing is Jason Taylor? And we get Ellis Hobbs.
The Pats will lose 27-24. Mark my post.
To think Brady Quinn would probably be on the field in Miami by now.This is early in a season to rebuild.I think Taylor and Thomas will be gone before they get it back together.I think this also says alot about San Deigo coaches from last year. Wade played us last sunday with a game plan to stop the run?Cam has killed this team by week 6