Sean Taylor - RIP UPDATED

Is it just me, or does it annoy anyone else when Len Pasquarelli, not even 24 hours after the man dies, is summing up on ESPN.com how it will affect the Redskins' defense on Sunday?
I know he's a football writer and I know it probably WILL affect their defense in more ways than one. To me, though, his column screams..."I didn't really know this person so I'll write about what I do know -- football and the Redskins."
Am I making too big of deal out of it, or does it come across as insensitive?

 

Your making too big a deal. He's just doing his job. ESPN has an army of other writers to do up the tragic/human/cop beat angles.

 

At least he didn't break the story.

 

I certainly wouldn't discount it. In fact, I find the whole ordeal a little fishy. It seems like someone staged the first break-in. Who breaks in and leaves a knife? Wouldn't most thieves pack steel? After all, if it's the same person, they certainly had a gun the second time. And did he really have a knife? Because knives seem to be pretty common theme in this story. And would you keep a machete in the bedroom? If you owned a gun, wouldn't you keep that in the bedroom?

I don't buy burglary at all. It could maybe a hit, but over what? Even if the wife didn't do it, I can't rule out that she had some role. But the real question is what was the motive here.

The police will try to piece together what went on in that house leading up to the shooting. I hear they've seized a computer. Though it's not indicative of anything, it's interesting to consider that they might find something on the hard drive that would paint a clearer picture of what had transpired at the home.

I assume that he was injured, was spending lots of time at home, was potentially taking lots of meds to deal with the injury and was around lots of people during the holidays.

Probably, I should sit back and wait to hear what the cops think.

 

A.) Pretty sure Taylor couldn't have a gun because of his probation or whatever from earlier run-ins with the law. Hence the machete.

B.) the knife left behind was, I believe, a kitchen knife. One from his house, I think. It was left, I can only assume, as a message.

C.) Talked to a guy in our office who said police clarified today: phone lines were not cut. Phones were not working.

 

Presser soon for all interested.

 

The official Sean Taylor MySpace page ...

http://www.myspace.com/official_seantaylor

 

Has there been any info on the size of the knife left during the previous burglary?

When my parents' house was robbed many years ago, the thieves left a knife behind (I think it was left either on a bed or on the dining room table). The police said at the time that they thought they had used it to pry stuff open and not for any nefarious purposes.

 

You and football bat.... you don't shoot someone in the leg and hope you hit the femoral if you are a hitman.

 

I have yet to meet a single changed adult. Just improved actors.

 

I had posted this:

But... why would she have called 911 then? And she cut the phone lines?

I don't think that it's possible that she personally shot him.

But her survival really makes me wonder if there is possibly a conspiracy.

 

Only if walls 18-month-olds could talk