Sean Taylor was truly one of a kind.

Former Eagles running back Brian Westbrook joined The Lefkoe Show podcast on Thursday and was asked about the three hardest hits he ever endured during his football career. That list would not have been complete without the former Redskins safety on it.

Westbrook explained the play from the start, what his thought process was throughout the play, and how it didn't end up the way he planned.

"We run a draw, everyone's blocked up, linebackers out on the wing. He's downhill. It's just me and him in the hole," Westbrook said. "So I'm like, 'let's go.' I'm going to give him a little bit. Going head-on was never my game, but every now and again you try and get a shot. My game was to get him off balance and then hit him. When you're off-balance, you can kind of run them over at that point."

But it didn't matter what move Westbrook tried to make; Taylor was going to make his presence felt.

"I tried to make a move, but he was just so long and physical. And 'boom.' He just ran right into me. You take a breath and he falls on you. Cracked my ribs on that play."

Westbrook may have endured an injury just from the hit, but he definitely wasn't surprised by the safety's physicality. He knew that Taylor would be a problem from the second he spotted him for the first time during warm-ups.

"I remember the first time I laid my eyes on him," Westbrook said on Taylor. "We're warming up, he's at the other end zone, I don't know who he is. He's standing underneath the goalpost, 6-foot-4 with his hands up, bush hair. I'm like 'he's touching the goalpost.' Then I see him running, left, right, and he's running like a gazelle. I'm like, 'who's this kid?' I'm thinking it must be a [defensive] end. 'Oh, that's Sean Taylor.'"

The physicality and strength Taylor brought every game was well known across the league. But Westbrook also went into detail about the competitive edge Taylor would try to gain by trash talking.

"Then you see him in a game, and he runs downhill. He talks bad to you," Westbrook said. "He calls you all kinds of names, you're terrible. Anything that you could think of that you would want you nasty, middle linebacker, safety or defensive end to say, he said that to me during the game."

But as soon as the clock hit zero, Taylor became the nicest person on the field.

"After the game he came up to me and said 'What's up Westbrook? You had a good game,'" Westbrook said. "I looked at him and I thought we were actually going to have a confrontation with how much [trash] he was talking so bad to me."

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