Jason Taylor is pulling the guy break-up move on the Miami Dolphins
So Jason Taylor calls a press conference to say … pretty much nothing. He just wants to make sure that everyone knows he isn’t asking for a trade.
Right.
“I’m playing ball in ‘08. If [a trade] doesn’t work out then I’m a Miami Dolphin. . . . I love this place.”
Sure, we get it. You want to play for a winner and and that’s in Miami, well, awesome. If not, whatever.
Ask any guy, we’ve all done this before. You’re dating a girl who’s … OK. She’s nice and cute and there’s nothing wrong with her, but you aren’t really in love with her. You really don’t even care that much about her. BUT … well, you do at least like having a girlfriend around … for obvious reasons. So you don’t just want to break up with her.
Instead you start keeping an eye out for “something better.” At the same time you turn off the charm with the current girlfriend. Rather than stay home with her on the weekend you do a Vegas run with the guys. [See Taylor and “Dancing with the Stars.”] You basically just do whatever you want and then if she dumps you, whatever. If she lets you get away with it, well, that’s OK too.
It’s not the most admirable move in the book, but it’s a time-honored tradition among us guys. And it’s the same thing Taylor is doing. He wants to play on a winning team next year and he wasn’t really interested in putting in the work with the Dolphins. It’s not that he hates them, he just doesn’t care that much for them anymore. He’d rather be traded, but doesn’t want to be the obvious jerk and break up with them. So instead he just does whatever he wants and sits back waiting to be traded because he figures Parcells won’t put up with it.
