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WshSkins22 wrote:WHy are some of you saying keep SEan, are you guys out of your minds? This guy freakin is being charged with assualt while hes playing for the redskins. So waht if hes talented, I could really care less, Ricky Williams was talented but where did that get the dolphins? I dont care how good he is, he needs to be gone from the redskins I dont care how, he has no discipline, and so what hes 22, that gives him teh right to shoot up someones house? Im only 16 and I am not dumb enough to do that, especially if I was making millions. If he goes to another team and does well, then so what as long as he doesnt ruin our team

Redskins Statement On Sean Taylor

June 4, 2005

The Washington Redskins issued the following statement regarding safety Sean Taylor:

"We have just been made aware of a potential situation in Miami regarding Sean Taylor. The representatives for Taylor are keeping us informed as to the developments of the situation. There is nothing we can add to the process at this time."

Redskins Safety Was Charged With Aggravated Assault, Simple Battery According to Two Reports

By Jason La CanforaWashington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, June 5, 2005; Page E01

ESPN.com and the Miami Herald reported that Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor turned himself in to the Miami-Dade Police Department last night and was charged with a felony count of aggravated assault with a firearm as well as simple battery, but police officials would not confirm that and continued to say that Taylor was a person of interest in this case.

The Herald said Taylor turned himself in, accompanied by his lawyer, about 10 p.m. last night at the Cutler Ridge district police station and was taken to Turner Guilford Knight correctional facility.


Taylor, 22, selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft, and a friend were at the scene of an incident involving a stolen car and shots being fired on Wednesday night, a police spokeswoman said on Friday, and was wanted for questioning in the case, although the department would not stipulate if he was a suspect, victim or witness. As of 1 a.m. this morning police officials were still calling him a person of interest and would not confirm any other information or elaborate on the subject.

Several police staff members spoken to late Saturday night said they had been instructed by the department's media relations department that no new information was available and that they would issue a news release if or when developments warranted. A source at the Miami-Dade Correctional Facility said that as of 12:45 this morning Taylor's name did not appear in their arrest information, but added that it could take several hours for that to occur if someone was in the process of being questioned by police.

Taylor's mother, Donna Junor, said that she did not know if her son was being questioned and still had not heard from him recently. "I'm not aware of that," she said when reached at her house at about 11:30 p.m. "I don't know anything about that."

The Washington Redskins had not acknowledged the situation until after 11 p.m. last night, when the team released a statement saying: "We have just been made aware of a potential situation in Miami regarding Sean Taylor. The representatives for Taylor are keeping us informed as to the developments of the situation. There is nothing we can add to the process at this time."

Taylor's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, has not returned repeated phone calls for the past two days.
Police officials have said no one was injured in this incident. One police source said Friday that the scene took place in a residential area in south Florida and shots were fired into a stolen vehicle, but the nature of Taylor's presence there and any involvement in the case was unclear. At that time police said they did not know if the stolen vehicle had belonged to Taylor or his friend or someone else.

Police investigators had contacted Taylor's family and league officials hoping to find him, but several of Taylor's family members said on Friday that they did not know where he has been. His father, Pedro, is chief of police in Florida City, but was unwilling to speak to this matter when reached on Friday, directed reporters to call Junor. Taylor has not been at Redskins Park since the end of the season in January and has had no contact with team officials, refusing to return calls from Coach Joe Gibbs and his staff.

Taylor, who left the University of Miami after his junior season, has spent much of the offseason in south Florida, where he makes his home, while skipping the club's voluntary workouts, with Gibbs expressing his disappointment in that decision on numerous occasions.

While Taylor, who attended the University of Miami, had a strong rookie season on the field, he was plagued by problems off of it.
Taylor was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated in October, suspended for one game by the team, and then later acquitted. He fired his agent twice before returning to Rosenhaus due to unhappiness with the six-year deal -- worth a maximum of $40 million -- the he had signed under previous representation. Taylor was fined $25,000 by the league after leaving its mandatory rookie symposium without permission and a member of the Cincinnati Bengals accused Taylor of spitting on him during a game last season, although the NFL could not find evidence of the claim after investigating it.

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last week Gibbs was saying that he was begining to doubt that Taylor was the kind of player that he wanted to build a team around but he hadn't given up yet.

WshSkins22 wrote:

last week Gibbs was saying that he was begining to doubt that Taylor was the kind of player that he wanted to build a team around but he hadn't given up yet.

Hey where did you read that can you send me a link I dont remember that, but other than that you made some good points

Gibbs conceded last week that Taylor doesn't fit with the type of team he is trying to build, but the coach said he hasn't given up on Taylor.

NikiH wrote:Yesterday it was bullets fired, today he merely pointed it at someone.

die cowboys die wrote:

NikiH wrote:Yesterday it was bullets fired, today he merely pointed it at someone.

"merely" pointed it at someone? if someone pointed a gun at me, i would want that person to go to jail for a long time.

die cowboys die wrote:"merely" pointed it at someone? if someone pointed a gun at me, i would want that person to go to jail for a long time. obviously they don't belong roaming free in society.

die cowboys die wrote:we should be entitled to a "compensatory" 1st round pick in next year's draft if this fool has flushed his career down the toilet. this incident is not football-related and there's no way we could've known he had these character issues (never got in trouble before). we don't deserve to have our draft pick stolen away from us like this.

1niksder wrote:But it's OK for the thief to roam freely[?]

1niksder wrote:Then every team that selected a player that didn't make the roster would want something back.
The Draft is a crapshoot, always has been always will be

General Failure wrote:And it's not like you didn't get months to poke and prod at the kid before the draft.