He is starting to sound a lot like Saban. If you don’t want to be here then either just come out and say it or shut your mouth and don’t say anything. He first said he was going to take a couple of days off and then report to mini camp on Thursday, then he said he was going to new york then back to LA to take care of some stuff THEN he was coming back for mini camp. and all the leadership bull, all the while he had no intension of coming at all. Why say your coming when your not. Just Say your not or dont say anything he outright lied on two occasions

but how is him holding out for a trade that much different from chad johnson

you have a contract, play it…training camp is mandatory

its just sad

Great player but I am a full fledged Dolphin Fan & I am losing respect and patience with JT!

what Strahan did… is anyone still talking about how he didnt attend all of training camp??? Granted, its a new defense, but like Jason said, he can learn it. Its fine.

wow, all respect that had for JT as a football player and a representative of miami juz flew out the window.
i even think chad johnson was a bigger man than JT, first of al chad never went on DWTS and chad was man enough to demand a trade himself instead of gettin his agent to do it.

Jacksonville showed the most interest before this news and I can assure you that they’ll take a serious look now. I’d imagine that the 3rd round pick offered by the Jaguars around draft time will look a little more attractive.

-Chris

To me it makes sense to wait this one out before passing judgment on JT. Do we even know for sure that this news is coming from JTs camp and is not a Parcell’s ploy to make JT look bad.

Either way, just move on people. With JT or without, our team is rebuilding. This whole story is useless. We are not going to the Super Bowl next season. So why all the fuss? Let them do whatever they think is best and lets start talking about the players who are showing up to camp.

Anyway, thats what I think about that.
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Just the other day, in his own words, not twisted by the press, JT asserted that he would be in training camp and would play for the Fins and everything would be fine.

What changed? Did he get a movie offer? Did his guest spot on good morning america turn into an offer to host the show?

IMO, this just makes him a liar. And if he doesn’t report to camp and play this season, he is not the “good guy” I thought he was.

It doesn’t just matter how you start…. it also matters how you finish.

We will not know what will happen.

I do know this now: I am very interested in what Quentin Moses can do.

http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_football_dolphins/2008/05/jason-taylor-go.html

“Could JT seriously pull a Jim Brown juke and walk away from the game in the prime of his career?

Is that what this is all about, or did the Trifecta tell Taylor he might as well not report in July if he’s going to miss all of May and June?

If things are so great for you without football, how about trying life without it now for good. See you when we see you, but remember we still own your rights buddy.

Disclosing Taylor’s planned absence turns the tables on him and his camp, making Taylor now look like the bad guy, and lightening the warden’s villain status a bit.

No longer can Taylor be viewed as the South Florida star trying to set up his next career by missing “voluntary workouts.”

Twinkle Toes Taylor now instantly gets painted as the distracted athlete who has abandoned his franchise, the one that made him a wealthy superstar.”

I would really like to hear your opinion on this one, given the vehement defense of mister Taylor in your previous post.

Quotes:
“I’m willing to bet that Jason Taylor… ...is relieved to know that some of you guys are able to live with his current career decisions. Whew! He’s wiping the sweat off his brow right now. Give me a break will ya! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. He will be here in June and he will run all over the guys who are huffin’ and puffin’ in the weight room right now.”

and….

“You should be proud that he’s not demanding a trade or urinating in night clubs or waving guns around or punching people out…he’s dancing!...and getting in great shape while doing it, football or otherwise. Please go away with your complaints, come back in June and eat crow pie then.”

Still think it’s no big thing and he will be back?
Just curious.

I told Saban to stick his book, he wrote, “Do You Want to be a Champion, up his ass.

And now I’m saying, Jason, you can stick your MVP trophy and all the accolades up your ass!

I’m sick and tired of all these millionaire pre madonnas who think the evrything is owed to them.

Ha! Second place in the dancing is first looser.

So there.

that i didnt get roped into watching that stupid fkeen dance show just cus im a finfan… and i think anyone that did has got to be extremely pist right now .. what a total farce!!! ..someone posted that its important how u finish… i tend to agree, and this kinda says it all doesnt it? Just from a career standpoint it strikes me as ‘publicity suicide’.. has he subscribed to the Ozzy Osborne philosophy that ‘bad publicity is still publicity’??? oh well, goes to show you that even the mvp of the nfl is no brain surgeon… i certainly gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was a classier person than all of this. shrug i guess after all is said, he apparently isnt “fired with enthusiasm”, and thus should probably be…..

Did anyone notice the emphasis on missing camp, not the season.

Sparano and Company are certainly leaving the door open.

I think this is going to be simple. What Parcells said originally is probably the case.

Jason Taylor is under contract. He will play for the Dolphins or retire.

I don’t care about DWTS. I don’t care if he wants to go to a birthday party.

I do care if he knows management won’t budge on a trade and so is in turn acting petulant, hoping to stir up a trade.

I don’t dislike him.

It’s just that he has lost a lot of his stoic greatness. A lot.

If JT wants to go to Hollywood. . .fine. Get the new rooks a bunch of reps. JT was a rookie once. I want to focus on the good stuff. Ronnie is running well. Ricky is back and seems to be focused. Get the Offense pumped up. Don’t forget last year our defense was in the lower end of the NFL with JT. Come back or get out! Either way don’t bring me down.

we were gonna have to look past the JT era to the future. If he eventually shows up and plays, great, but he won’t be here for the long haul and he won’t be contributing to a Super Bowl run in 3 or 4 years, so I say trade him. Take what you can get and let him walk. If he doesn’t want to be a Dolphin, bye. Step back and look further into the future… whoever we can get in a trade, whether it’s players or draft picks, will be here when were ready to contend. We can keep JT, and he can be a stud on a 5-11 team, or we can trade him and get someone who will be on a 11-5 team a few years from now while JT is making movies in Hollywood.

to be nothing more than a pissing contest between (little kids) Jason and Bill. At this point I’m getting very tired of the whole mess. There is no class from either side as I see it but less from Bill and co. than Jason because they (Sparano) dropped the bomb about Jason being a no show. That is, I guess, a move to force Jason’s hand. I just wish that they would both move on because we, the fans, have had 5 years of soaps so far. It’s getting VERY OLD!!!!!

he missed training camp and pretty much all activities last year, so whyare you guys crying about the dolphins best d-end of all time missing, maybe hes tired and fed up, let him pace it out, he hasnt done any thing wrong and hes not a hold out, so stfu

JT can still make a solid bid for the HOF by playing well for the Fins for two more years. He doesn’t have to go to a contender or hoist the Lombardi. He just needs to pad his stats. If he quits now, or sits out for the year, he damages his chances.

Dumb!

I’ve been getting a lot of flack around here for saying that JT is the same as ocho zippo(selfish) except he has a better PR people around him… he’d been playing the old two face routine say one thing to the public while having childish spats with the new admin… Well its obvious that the triad decided to release the info and stop protecting JT’s image and let it be know the reality of JT’s attitude. Amen to that. It’s about time JT takes some heat for being selfish and I hope the triad sticks to their guns and JT has to retire and move to italy to make movies or the team getts appropriate compensation for trading a very talented player who has been a disruption to the team for 2 years now.

...this is what I said after a recent Matty post…I guess you didn’t see it.

“I don’t know what to make of this JT thing anymore…I do know that he will play great wherever he is. When the trade rumors started weeks ago I was all for letting him go compete for a title somewhere else if we could get decent compensation for him and I am still ok with that but I’m with gophish that we can’t cut him and it will be very disappointing if he ends up being a no-show. I am with you Matty that no one player is bigger than the team and I too am a Dolphin first. Thanks for the post and if there is some validity to this recent rumor, touche’. However, too much was made of the "Dancing" thing and I really believe that is has little to do with his ultimate decision. You might have something there Yorke. Actually, all of this mystery this year is kind of exciting.”

Hey look, none of us are Nostrodamas. I don’t waiver in my opinions because until we know the truth or until stuff plays out none of us really know what’s up. I would like to see Jason stay but if he has to go, he has to go. That’s how I felt in the beginning and that’s how I feel now. Do I think he can still play great football…Yes! Do I think we should berate him because of the difficult situation he has been put in by the new system (yes, he has been PUT there), absolutely not. He may very well be in a day to day situation with this thing just like the rest of us.

GO DOLPHINS!!!

Headlines, drama and rumors have ALWAYS circulated around Bill Parcells. That’s one of the reasons I was thrilled to find out he was coming here. He gives us a lot of “face time” as one fan wrote talking about JT. It’s just what this teams needs, not the negative thug type publicity but the “Hey what’s going on down there in Miami? What is their next move? type stuff. Parcells brings that. The players are hyped up already and so are we, the fans.

GO DOLPHINS!!!