JLC the kudos should go to you. You have done a tremendous job covering the story at all hours. When I look for updated info I look to your blog first. Thank you for your accurate and insightful coverage.

JLC you've gone above and beyond like all journalists there working to keep everyone on top of the latest with this story. Great stuff.

I've decided to switch some of the lyrics around to the Redskins fight song to honor #21. If anyone's offended..get over it. :)

Hail to the Redskins!
Hail Sean Taylor!
He's on the Warpath!
Fight for the 2-1!
Run or pass or score - he hit a lot more!
Beat'em, Swamp'em, Touchdown - left opponents soar.
Fight on Fight on Till you have won Number Twenty One - Rah! Rah! Rah!

Hail to the Redskins!
Hail Sean Taylor!
He's on the Warpath!
Fight for the 2-1!

R.I.P. Sean Taylor. You'll be missed.

Beautiful statement by LC -- wish he was still playing for us.

I continue to be amazed at how widely and how deeply Sean's death has affected people. I wish he was still here to see it.

To the person(s) that took Sean's life: Like most of the opponent's #21 sought out on the field...you can run...but you can't hide.

Thanks for all of your efforts in handling a most difficult time in Redskins History. I have been a life long fan and can never remember anything of this magnitude happening to this team. Your professionalism and compassion have shown through this difficult time. I have come to heavily rely on your blogs over the past few days-either at work or at home.

My prayers and sympathies go out to the Sean Taylor family, the Redskins organization, and all of the Redskin Fans.

My hopes and prayers are that the Redskins will play the rest of the season and beyond the way Sean Taylor played the game-with passion, energy and vivaciousness needed to be successful.

I believe, based on his faith, we have the right coach, at the right time, for the right team. Coach Gibbs-thanks for being who you are!

Rest in peace Sean!!

Hail to the Redskins
Hail Victory!
Braves on the Warpath
Fight for ole DC

"aplomb" Nice pull Jason! Hey is that a thesaurus I see there behind your back? hahaha

We've all said it a million times and will probably say it a few more YOU ROCK Jason/Jasno/JLC! Thank you very much for all your hard work.

You seriously need to take all the comments to all your articles over the past 3 days, send them to your boss and demand a raise!

PS. To those that were giving talent a hard time a few blog articles back. You have to understand a bunch of us have been here pretty much constantly over the past few days commiserating commenting, pouring hearts and emotions out here. He is a big fan from what I've read...and just happens to be a bit more of a rationalist than you may be (and correct me if I'm wrong talent, a dry often misunderstood sense of humor?). So if you are just showing up commenting...welcome. But take some time and go back and read the articles and corresponding comments over the past 3 days...there are lots but you may be enlightened...some if you have any heart very well may make you cry.

Point being, lots of us are just emotionally drained...have done the bulk of our mourning. (I'm a grown man 32 years old 2 year old daughter...don't cry much...have cried more than I can remember over the past two days,), cried, spilled our hearts and emotions out here (the only reliable place maybe anywhere to get up to date info on Sean), gone to the vigil. Some of us just can't handle anymore of it...and for us, the way we have to move on and continue to deal with it..is through levity and trying to move on with some normalcy. Don't mean any of this to be argumentative...just trying to enlighten a bit.

I just want to give a shout out to Richard Sharpstein, who I believe has represented the Taylor family very eloquently, and yet very professionally. He seems to have the Taylor family's best interests completely in mind. And for that, this fan would like to thank him for the good job he is doing.

Thanks, Richard.

Some folks on here criticized supporting Sean Taylor's right to make that hit on the punter in the pro bowl, some said "don't bring that garbage around here."

Well, to those folks, just read what the punter has to say about that hit... Dan Speinberg posted it on his blog.

Sean Taylor slammed his body into more than his fair share of wide receivers and running backs and tight ends over the years, but the hit that's stamped into plenty of minds involves a punter. Yeah, a punter. At the Pro Bowl. Yeah, the Pro Bowl. The Bills' Brian Moorman, a former national champion hurdler and a member of the NCAA Division II Track and Field Hall of Fame, was carrying the ball on a fake punt. I'll let his teammates take over from there.

"I was watching it," safety George Wilson said. "I jumped up off the coach and was like, "OH MY GOODNESS!"

"At first when I had seen it I was like, 'Man, Sean just hit somebody so HARD, who was tha....oh that's Brian MOORMAN. Oh, Snap!'" cornerback Jabari Greer said.

"Some of the guys thought his jaw was broken," Josh Reed said. "I mean, did you see the hit?"

"That's what made him the player he was, that type of take-no-prisoners, cutthroat mentality," Coy Wire said. "As a football player, you've got to respect that. It's unfortunate that he had to do it to our punter."

To his eternal credit, Moorman immediately popped up off the ground and ran straight over to Taylor, just to let him know he wasn't still on the turf. "Nice hit," Moorman said he told Taylor, who was too busy celebrating to respond. They never managed to discuss the hit.

Moorman, of course, got a bit of playful kidding from teammates when they gathered for offseason workouts. "I'm like, 'What were you thinking, bro?'" Greer remembered telling the punter. "That's going to be a play that we'll definitely remember."

The highlight packages will make sure of that. While the hit has been wiped clean from YouTube, thanks to the NFL's copyright claims, it has appeared again and again in Taylor video retrospectives this week. Moorman, a team leader who has been to two consecutive Pro Bowls, has seen the tackle replayed before--although not this week--and he knows he'll always be linked with Taylor.

"It's strange," he said today. "Obviously it's a memory for me, and now it's become just very surreal, to know that tragedy has happened. Our thoughts are just with him and his family."

At the time, message boards were filled with discussions of whether Taylor had displayed excessive aggression in what was a glorified exhibition game, and blogs seized upon the video. "The Pro Bowl briefly refused to be about the sexiest cheerleaders in the AFC and NFC when Sean Taylor of the Washington Redskins treated Buffalo Bills punter Brian Moorman like Ray Fosse," With Leather wrote at the time, referring to the catcher Pete Rose once flattened. "Ouch," summarized FanHouse. Some commentators hinted that the hit was somehow dirty or unsporting, but Moorman said he never felt that way.

"You know, a lot of people ask about that, but it was a clean football play and I have a lot of respect for him," he told me. "Any time a punter or kicker gets hit like that, it's kind of a topic of conversation. It's fun to rib me, it's fun for me to take it. It was always a light-hearted thing. I never had any hard feelings. At the end of the day somebody's got to make a tackle. It was my fault for running straight up."

And, um, dare we ask what it felt like?

"It definitely took my breath away for a minute, and then I was able to jump up and catch it and move on," Moorman said. "It looks a lot worse than it hurt."

Barno...nice find on the Moorman story.

totally off topic, but I went to high school with Ohm. Small world.