Dolphins Bungle Top-Secret Taylor Talk

So that's why his agent was raving about the Jets: Rex Ryan blabs about everything right up front.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger between the Miami Dolphins and Jason Taylor, well, it got stranger. Like junior high strange. From Miami Dolphins in Depth:

Tony Sparano called Jason Taylor in recent days and...told Taylor the two of them needed to meet this week. Man to man. Coach to player.

Nobody needed to know about it, Sparano told Taylor. And so Taylor didn't tell anyone about the meeting... didn't tell his agent Gary Wichard.

But obviously someone inside the Dolphins organization told [ESPN Senior Insider Chris Mortensen, who reported the news nationally on Monday].

And what is the point? On the one hand, they seem to be reaching out to Taylor. But, in fact, by leaking the story, they have actually done damage to whatever they might be trying to accomplish. Taylor was disappointed with the team late Monday night when he learned news of the planned meeting leaked from the team.

Okay, so friend-of-Mortensen Bill Parcells isn't exactly Judas Iscariot -- though Armando Salguero did work the word "betray" into his report at the Herald -- and this isn't exactly the secret location of Osama Bin Laden we're discussing. And maybe the Tuna's Super Bowl rings do double as decoders.

But the leak from the Dolphins camp does put Taylor in an awkward spot with his agent, and it does make the Dolphins' moves look more like (poor) public relations than actual negotiations.

It also makes them look like idiots. Since when is Jason Tayor the ugly girl you like in private but don't want to acknowledge dating?

Maybe, just to be sure he got the point across, Sparano can pick Taylor up for the meeting, pull up to a light, point at someone in the next car, and honk the horn to catch JT staring.

Or maybe Jeff Ireland can ask his Katina Taylor if she got her hair cut, and then lapse into silence without saying it looks nice.

At this point, it's hard to even care what happens, but it would be nice if everyone started acting like adults. The way this is going, Parcells will shortly be played by Lindsay Lohan in a Lifetime movie called "Sins of the Franchise." And the real crime, out of all of this, would be if it helped Lindsay Lohan find work again.

Janie Campbell is a Florida native who believes in the pro-set and ballpark hot dogs. Her work has appeared in irreverent sports sites around the internet.

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