Pro Bowl Fan Voting Ends, Jets Don’t Show Well
So the ballots are in, and only one Jet came out on top by fans to go to the Pro Bowl automatically. Alan Faneca (306,768) has once again been voted to the game.
For the rest, it will come down to the coaches and players who will act as the rightful electoral college, actually validating who should go, as they submit their selections by December 29th.
While Revis isn’t in, he’s third, and coaches and players will do what fans didn’t, and send him to the game. Kudos though to the many of you who did vote for him, over the course of the last week, he got an additional 100,000 more votes than he had.
Here’s how other Jets finished up:
- Thomas Jones was out of the top five.
- Tony Richardson came in 3rd with 97,722 votes
- Nick Mangold wasn’t in the top five (but should be voted in)
- D’Brick was out of the top five, and morons surged their voting for The Blind Side’s Michael Oher of Baltimore since the movie’s release. Vote for Sandra Bullock at tackle then … jeez.
- David Harris and Bart Scott didn’t get in the top five
- Revis came in third with 272,503 votes to Champ Bailey’s 443,018
24 Responses to Pro Bowl Fan Voting Ends, Jets Don’t Show Well
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J-Kay says:
Faneca doesn’t even deserve it… Fan voting is a joke
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cojetfan says:
If fans can’t vote Revis in, maybe we need to question the validity of fan voting.
Seriously. Do these people even watch football?
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greg sec 130 says:
Faneca may be the least deserving Jets OLman based on this season only.
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JesusRevis says:
The NFL should only allow the fan voting to count for a small percentage, that way you can keep the fans involved, but allow the players and coaches to truly decide who makes it.
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kerry who? says:
this is a disgrace
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Dylan says:
haha its a good thing that in football fan voting only counts as a 3rd of the total votes. In most sports, such as baseball, its all comes down to the fans vote for naming starters. Its sad fans are two dumb to base their votes off of observation.
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JEFFDOLFINI says:
I think Revis, Thomas Jones, Harris, and Mangold deserve to get in.
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JR — I think the last two games should play a bigger role than they will (obviously), but like last year, when the Jets spit the bit and then sent so may to the PB, this year we should wait and see who finishes strong. PLayers and coaches voted yesterday. What about the final two games? Why can’t they wait? They will have six weeks until the game.
Purely hypothetically, what if David Harris sacks Manning three times, recovers a fumble for a TD and has two picks, then follows it up with 25 tackles and three sacks vs the Bengals and the Jets reach the playoffs in large part due to his last two games. Shouldn’t that be a factor?
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Do the fans choose the starters like in MLB but the coach/player 2/3′s only counts for the rest?
If not, I think Revis will start — players and coaches will vote for him more than Woodson.
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greg sec 130,
Revis and Woodson are in different conferences so it doesn’t matter. Revis just needs to beat out Champ and Asomugha. -
it should be TJ, Richardson, Dbrick, Mangold, Harris, Revis
what about brad smith for special teams?
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StvDoe says:
I’m with you Basset, the Oher vote shows just how ridiculous the process is.
Baseball makes no pretensions about their all star game being anything other than a popularity contest, yet they make it worse by actually making it count for something.
In football, thankfully SOME of the injustices are corrected by the coach and player votes, but even those are in large part driven more by politics than by the relative merits of the players.
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I meant Champ, yes, sorry
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brian311 says:
TJ, Faneca, Mangold and Revis should be locks
Dbrick, Ellis and Harris you could also make an argument for
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Hopefully, Revis’s exclusion will lead to a modification of the system.
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PA Matt says:
Did anyone else notice Ben Graham was the leading vote getter for Punters.
LOL
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Bent says: I think the inclusion of a non-worthy player is more likely to get them to change the system. *cough* Faneca *cough*
It’s a good job you can’t blitz in the probowl.
It’s a farce anyway, with the game being played BEFORE the superbowl this year. When I first started watching in the mid-eighties, the Pro Bowl was way more meaningful.
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I agree with everyone that Faneca is making the pro bowl on reputation, but lets not act like this guy isnt a very good player. His pass protection has been average, but hes still a beast in the running game, for a team with the #1 rushing attack. Just saying.
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Actually, I think that playing the week before the Superbowl is a GOOD idea. It is usually a “lost” weekend and I bet interest and ratings will be higher this year. The fact that Superbowl participants won’t play is a non-issue. Many of them did not play anyway when the game was played subsequently. We’ll see.
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Bent, I respectfully disagree. There is always more media uproar about the noteworthy exclusions than the inclusions—whether it refers to the Probowl, the All-Star game, the NCAA tournament, etc.
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BigKatFan says:
how can u call it the pro bowl when its fan voting? enter players based on stats and records. and who wants to go now that its not in hawaii? no one, thats who
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Bent says:
Faneca’s been better over the second half, but prior to the bye, he was just as bad in the running game as in pass protection.
The point I was making about Revis’ exclusion not making any difference was because that is fixable, by simply including him as a reserve. You can’t remove a guy who blatantly doesn’t deserve it (Favre last year) which makes it even more farcical (although favre did pull out).
What if we’d all voted for Gholston as a protest against the voting system? That would get them to change it.
Note: the xmas number one single here in England is Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine because everyone was sick of it being some Simon Cowell Idol crap every year, so a protest movement was organized. These things can work!
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Tomsect201 says:
I honestly could care less about Pro Bowl voting. The intracacies of the game are too diverse for the average fan to vote with any knowledge. Many of the fans voting can barely name their own OL much less make an educated decision on an “all-star” from their conference. All-Pro is much more significant and Revis should be 1st team AP with no problem.
I know Revis will get in, but if Mangold, Harris and Ferguson arent voted in by the coaches, I will be very disapointed.