Lawrence Taylor is rooting for Abdul Carter, and would love nothing better than to see the rookie make No. 51 as famous as he made No. 56 as a rookie in 1981.<\/p>\n
LT, from the moment he donned No. 56, was a human tornado who carved a terrifying path of destruction on his way to the quarterback as Defensive Player of Year and Defensive Rookie of the Year as a Giants rookie.<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s preseason dream, you may recall, was to wear LT\u2019s retired No. 56<\/a>. In two of the last three games \u2014 benched for one series against the Packers for missing a walkthrough and for two series against the Patriots for missing a team function \u2014 the third overall pick of the NFL draft has brought no honor to his No. 51 or to his team<\/a>.<\/p>\n LT would endure his well-documented personal demons later on in a Hall of Fame career that occasionally saw him wreck games even with a hangover.\u00a0Bill Parcells always used to say that no one wanted to win the game\u00a0more than Lawrence Taylor come gameday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence Taylor is rooting for Abdul Carter, and would love nothing better than to see the rookie make…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":422653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[31600,6335,69047,4716,1232,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-422652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-lawrence-taylor","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115657774555349302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}