Get Peter King in Front of a Camera, He Gets Diarrhea of the Mouth

Last week, it was Dallas head coach Wade Phillips. Now it's Miami linebacker Jason Taylor. According to the Miami Herald, Taylor, through a team spokesman, said he never told Peter King that it would be best if he was traded to a contender during the off-season. Leading up to the Pats-Cowboys game, King reported on HBO's Inside the NFL that Phillips told him, "New England was caught cheating, and it is a black mark on their success." Except Phillips denied it.

Taylor was disputing comments King made on this week's Inside the NFL segment.

King said he asked Taylor on Wednesday if he's sorry that he wasn't dealt before Tuesday's trade deadline. 'He said, `You're putting me in a tough spot here,' '' King said. ' `I've had 10 great years here. I owe a lot to the Dolphins.' ''

But King also said, "Clearly, Jason Taylor thinks not only would it be in the team's best interests for him to go in the offseason, but it would be in his best interests to go to a contender in the offseason for the last couple of years of his career.''

I saw the segment, and I never got the impression that Taylor thought it would be in his best interests to go elsewhere this off-season. It just sounded like King speculating. Now there's an argument about whether he should even be doing that -- particularly when it might not be clear where the truth ends and the rumors begin -- but it is what it is.

The problem, it seems, is that when King gets in front of a camera, he doesn't know when to stop flapping his gums. For the second time in two weeks, someone in the NFL has denied making statements King attributed to them. In the future, maybe he should work from a script, or just stick to writing. I think Starbucks actually appreciates the attention.