Updated July 21, 9:30 AM

Jason Taylor now plays for the Washington Redskins. Taylor was traded for the 2009 second round pick and the 2010 sixth round pick. This appears to be a great deal especially since he told the Redskins that he did not need to renegotiate his contract and would play it out with the two years remaining on it.

The bad news is that this was necessary to replace Phillip Daniels who was injured on the first day of training camp. Although I was there, yours truly did not see this happen.

Still the trade appears to help both teams. Bill Parcells and Taylor never saw eye to eye. Reports were that he ignored Taylor when the Dolphin tried to introduce himself to the Tuna back in the spring. Later Parcells said he didn't know Taylor was there. Kind of hard to miss a big defensive end, don't you think?

Update: Would have provided this sooner, but my lovely cable ISP decided to shut down for the past 12 hours. The Redskins also lost DE Alex Buzbee for the season. Makes more sense why they got Taylor. After all, last year Jon Jansen was lost for the season and no big trade/free agent signing came in to fill the void.