IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
Former Eagles cornerback Bobby Taylor, who has not played in the NFL since 2004, is looking to make a comeback, according to Brad Briggs, of the National Football Post.
Taylor is telling current and former players that he plans to contact teams in the next week or two.
Taylor, 36, has been working out in Houston and is looking for a team in need of a third or fourth cornerback and would be willing to play safety, Biggs said.
Is this nuts? Well, yes. Nobody is going to sign a skill position player who hasn't been on a football field in six years. Teams weren't interested in Bobby in 2005. What has changed for the better in five years? Maybe he's been watching tape of Asante Samuel and figures "Hey, if you can tackle like that and still be in the Pro Bowl ..."
Taylor was drafted by the Eagles in the second round in 1995 out of Notre Dame and was with the Birds until 2003. He spent the 2004 season with Seattle before being released.
More on Vick
USA Today is conducting a poll this morning about whether you believe Michael Vick's statement. In the early going, 48 pecent say "No, there is no way he is totally clean on this." Another 18 percent say, "No, his lips were moving."
On the positive side, 19 percent said, "Yes, we need to drop this now" an 16 percent said "Yes, but his actions were foolish."
Public opinion has to weigh on NFL comissioner Roger Goodell, as he figures out how to proceed with Vick. The quarterback does not need to be implicated or have charges filed against him in order for Goodell to act. The comissioner was clear with how small a margin for error Vick had to work with when he reinstated him last year. From all parties, it seems clear that Vick used poor judgement in going along with this open-to-the-public-for-a-fee, late night birthday bash.
The Daily News asked an NFL spokesman about whether the league could or would take action against Vick before Virginia Beach police finished their investigation. The spokesman said the league would have no comment beyond that it was still gathering the facts.
If Goodell suspends or bans Vick without clear evidence he was involved in the shooting, though, that will surely open a legal can of worms, not to mention raising the issue of whether Vick will have been dealt with fairly.
Les
Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News
since 2002.
Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les
only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no
penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite
what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News
from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much
lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their
two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
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Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the
Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre
and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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