Dolphins' Taylor welcomes `Slash' role on defense.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Dave Hyde

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ He's having fun again.

"A blast," Jason Taylor says.

Let's start right there. If you've come to know Taylor at all these past eight Dolphins seasons, you don't need to be told what these last few years have been like for him.

This is a player who through last year's 4-12 season placed an index card with the word Win by his bedside lamp so it was what he saw last at night and first in the morning; who has the franchise record for sacks at defensive end and, like Tiger Woods reinventing his swing, was asked to change roles; and who even heard reports he'd be changing teams until cruising the Bahamas in...

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