While watching the NFL 2025 draft on television at his son’s draft party on Friday night in southern Florida, Jason Taylor could not believe his eyes, which immediately flooded tears.
Taylor’s 20 -year -old son, LSU’s closed wing, Mason Taylor, was recruited by the jets in the second round with General Selection 42, adding a very necessary talent to an exhausted position.
Taylor, a passenger corridor of the Hall of Fame with 139 ¹/₂ career sacks that was made with the Miami Dolphins, played a season for the jets in 2010, producing six catches and two forced loose balls.
Taylor’s season with the Jets was the last year, the jets arrived at the playoffs, losing in the AFC championship in January 2011.
When that factoid was called to his attention on Friday night, Taylor was tasks and saying: “I didn’t know. We are going to change that.”
When asked how it will be for him when the jets and his son play the Dolphins, Taylor said, “”[I’m] So identified with that franchise, obviously I love, I love, I love the Miami Dolphins and their fans. But as you know, this is not my first rodeo on the other side of the tracks, so I have to say: “Jets, airplanes, airplanes, airplanes.” ” ‘
Taylor was constantly erasing tears while talking about Mason as a plane.
“You really can’t put it in words,” he said. “I am a very emotional guy when it comes to my children, so obvious that I was crying and defeated with joy for him.”
Taylor said the Mason adjustment with the newly hired meaningless jet coach, Aaron Glenn is perfect.
“Mason is the ball,” Taylor said. “He loves football. He loves working on that. He is not very big in all the auxiliary things that come with him. He will be in a great place to concentrate on his game.”
When asked what advice he will give to son while embarking on a race in the NFL, Taylor said: “First, it will be where his feet are.
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“The greatest success of my team was in New York. A part of my heart has always been in New York, the best city on the planet. I love it and I keep the opportunity to go to play there.
“This means everything … for me as a father this moment in time,” “Taylor added.” The sun has put in my career. It is incredible to be able to sit and look at it, and for him to walk around the same place where he was and be in the same costumes and take that same path … you are trying to cry again. I am fighting it. “
And then the tears flowed again.
