Ike Taylor retires

Thanks Ike ,it's a shame that his hands retired before they ever started.

 

A class act. Loved the battles between him, Ocho, and AJ. Most definitely a key to those championship seasons.

 

Good first post and I agree! What Ike lacked in ball skills he made up in sheer physicality. He had great speed and wasn't afraid to lay a lick on the guy with the ball. If the guy could only catch we'd be talking about Ike in the same glowing terms as we talk about Blount and Woodson.

 

As a newbie myself welcome I too came from another board but this is my new home. I look forward to getting to know this board with ya.

 

I was thinking today that I don't know if I've seen anybody wearing an Ike jersey at a game. Of the recent players you mostly see Ben, Troy, Harrison, Woodley, AB, Heath, and Hines. Has anyone else ever noticed the lack of Ike jerseys? Am I just thinking this? I've been to a lot of games over Ike's career, at Heinz and on the road, and really can't think of a time that I've seen his jersey in the stands.

 

Ike was a selfless Steeler, what he did with taking a pay cut is unheard of. Ike was one of them guys who just came and shut down his guy most of the time. He didn't brag or gloat he just came to play and play well he did. Good luck Ike and thanks for the memories and professionalism. You are going to be great on tv and I look forward to watching you there, if anyone is interested he will be on the NFL network at 7 pm tomorrow I do believe.

 

Thanks for the years of service Ike. Loved watching you play most of the time but I also face palmed myself more than I could count. We could be arguing HOF stats but way too many potential INT's were dropped. At the end of the day you still owned Ochostinko and that made me very happy.

 

Yep, THE definition of "Underappreciated"...

Blast beat me to it, being surprised he actually had 14 int`s...

And BFT is right, ya never saw anyone wearing his jersey...

But he did a way more than solid job at his position for quite a few years.

Shame age cathes up with everyone...

He was a key part of this team for a while, and I don`t think he got his fair share of respect for what he did for us...

Just my humble opinion...

At least he went out Black and Gold!!!(After a huge paycut, that most players wouldn`t take, nowadays...)

GO STEELERS!!!

 

Did you just tell Ike to go Swag off? ha-ha
Welcome to the REAL STEEL BOARD!
Glad to have you here

 

How much of that is to do with availability? I imagine that those player's jerseys are the ones that fill the stores the most, especially outside of Pittsburgh.

 

Ike... thanks for the service! You are one of the greats. It will take me some time to adjust to not seeing Ike and Troy on the field. I hope future Steelers can step up and be as great as these two.
I will leave you with this:
Ike Taylor caught a ball once...j/k (from mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel)

 

Well on the website you can get pretty much any jersey you want. There are also stores in Pittsburgh that will even make you the jersey you want right there on the spot. But it is true that outside of Pittsburgh you mostly see Ben and Troy jerseys on the shelf. At least around here anyway. I pretty much always wear throwback jerseys to games. Lambert is my favorite one to wear.

 

SWAGGIN

 

Good riddance, he has the worst stats of any 12 year corner that I can remember, 3 sacks and only 14 picks in a 12 year career, that's a sad commentary, on top of that, he was penalty prone....

 

Its about time. IKE will be a first ballot hall of famer

 

Right...nevermind that he shut down the best WR's in the league time after time during his prime years

 

He was pretty good when he was younger but, the last two years, I started calling him Ike, yellow flag, Taylor.

 

That is sad commentary. I'm glad to see you're self-aware, at least.

 

well played Snack...well played!

 

What?!?..

And Keisel is retiring Black n Gold also???

Not to highjack this thread, but I heard it in Ike`s interview, here, first...

And didn`t see any other threads about it...

Last I heard, he was considering other options...

Does this mean we have had THREE Steelers retire this offseason, that never. played. for. another. team???

Sad to see all of them go, ...

But pretty damn proud, that NONE of them chose to play elsewhere...

That says a LOT about our franchise, in this day and age of free-agency!:thumbsup:

(I still think Keisel could contribute, but, the risk of injury is pretty high...
And Silverback, chose to come back here, instead of going to Tenn, with LeBeau, surprises even me...)...

HELL YEAH!!!

HERE WE GO STEELERS!!! HERE WE GO!!!

 

I've always felt like that when Ike knew he was beat if he didn't just maul the guy to save a td from happening because he figured the d could then tighten back up and hold? So it was like a risk/reward type deal with more of a likelihood of reward in the big picture.

 

Plus Hines was a recent guy that played his whole career here as well. Heath and Ben will too. I think Timmons will as well. I wonder which team has the highest rate of players that never played for another team since Free Agency started? I guarantee you one thing. It aint the pats! They change personnel like Jerry Lewis changes socks!