Phil Taylor out for season.

RoyceRolls

Link?

tiamat63

It's on NFL.com. Looks like the knee that was tweaked @ Cincy.

Well...shit. He was playing well of late. This will only solidify the need for a big in the early round and later round of the draft.

Clevfan4life

I thought Pettine said it was nothing...oh well. Still not sure DL will be a priority in the draft given our current depth and that we'll get Armonty and Phil back next year. But maybe a big FA signing then using Phil or Rubin for trade bait? I still think Justin Houston should be one of our top FA priorities in the offseason. But Suh is also going to be out there as well as Orakpo and Hardy. All guys I can see improving our defense.

tiamat63

@clevfan4life said:
I thought Pettine said it was nothing...oh well. Still not sure DL will be a priority in the draft given our current depth and that we'll get Armonty and Phil back next year. But maybe a big FA signing then using Phil or Rubin for trade bait? I still think Justin Houston should be one of our top FA priorities in the offseason. But Suh is also going to be out there as well as Orakpo and Hardy. All guys I can see improving our defense.

Can't count the bold coming back into pre-injury form. Look how long its taking for Geno Atkins to get back. He was also the best DT in the NFL before he got hurt.

Houston is a dream, one I doubt would come true. Suh? No. Orakpo? No. Hardy? No.... Draft is most likely.

Tim Couch Pulls Out

Damn. We should have drafted Watkins. That would have solved everything.

LogicIsForSquares

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:
Damn. We should have drafted Watkins. That would have solved everything.

Hahaha I heard he was a mean NT at Clemson.

jcam222

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:
Damn. We should have drafted Watkins. That would have solved everything.

haha agree, Watkins was a real run stopper when he played both ways in the 2nd grade.

Mudfly

@logicisforsquares said:
I heard he was a mean NT

@jcam222 said:
Watkins was a real run stopper

Could be prophetic. Sammy may not be a run stopper, but there's a good chance he paid for our next one

miktoxic

yeah, this really sucks. taylor basically solved our run stopping prob vs. the bengals.........

hopefully foster is out or hurt.

this tells me DL and OL will be our first 2 picks in next year's draft UNLESS there's some beast LB sitting there when we pick.

bbedward

@miktoxic said:

yeah, this really sucks. taylor basically solved our run stopping prob vs. the bengals.........

hopefully foster is out or hurt.

this tells me DL and OL will be our first 2 picks in next year's draft UNLESS there's some beast LB sitting there when we pick.

Hopefully Rubin and someone else steps up.

Tour2ma

Phil made some really nice plays against CIN. Split a double team once as nice as you please...

The play on which he reinjured the knee seemed innocent, but you could see by his reaction it was anything but...

Heal well, big guy...

D Bone

@miktoxic said:

yeah, this really sucks. taylor basically solved our run stopping prob vs. the bengals.........

hopefully foster is out or hurt.

this tells me DL and OL will be our first 2 picks in next year's draft UNLESS there's some beast LB sitting there when we pick.

This news really hurts. Phil stuffed everything last week, and the difference was night and day. Of all of our injuries, this one sucks the most.

Clevfan4life

We're obviously keeping Phil...I think we owe him 5m next year. No one's gonna trade for him coming off an injury. But Rubin is a FA and if Taylors return really was the reason why all of a sudden our run defense worked...that means Rubin and the other guys may not be doing what they should. I dunno, we still have Winn who I think is a coming superstar.

slowburn

phil who?

LBC mike

Kitchen has been decent.

LBC mike

Is Winn and kitchen active for tomorrow

Manzier

@lbc-mike said:
Is Winn and kitchen active for tomorrow

Not sure about Kitchen, but Winn is slated to start