shatch62

I'll be the first to admit that I take Brady for granted now. When he was a little off to start the year I thought "WTF is wrong with him" not "the poor guy is coming back from a brutal knee injury". Now that I step back I can say he is getting back into form and should be a front runner for the comeback player of the year award. Not according to everyone.

Per Adam Schein of Foxsports.com at mid season it is Jason Taylor. (NFL - - FOX Sports on MSN). "Tom Brady? I expected this. Taylor is back in Miami and back to his dominant form". Taylor is dominant? At the mid point Taylor has 17 solo tackles, 6 assists and 5.5 sacks. Good but not great.

Peter King of SI says it is Brett Farve (NFL Midseason All-Pro Team, Awards - Peter King - SI.com). "From May arm surgery to phenomenal 16-to-3 touchdown-to-interception ratio." While this true Farve played every game last year and while not deserving was VOTED TO THE PRO BOWL.

Here is a list of guys that at the half deserve the award (not in order):
Brady - Missed every game but one last year and is on pace to throw for 4,730 yrds and 32 TDs
Cedric Benson - Had a so so season in Cincinnati last year after being cut by the Bears. This year he is on pace for 1,675 rushing yrds and 12 TDs
Chad Ochocinco - last year 53 rec for 540 yrds and 4 TDs. This year he already has 44 red for 639 yrds and 5 TDs.
Jeremy Shockey - Last year - 50 recs for 483 yrds and 0 TDs. This year so far 34/402/3
Darren Sharper - Last year - 1 Int. This year 7 Ints and 3 Tds already.

There are others (DE Will Smith, DE Andre Carter) as well and any of them could fade in the 2nd half but still for Jason Taylor and Brett Farve to called comeback players of the year is a joke.

KontradictioN

If it came down to it, I would vote for Brady but I personally don't see any problem with Favre winning CPOY award. Favre has been as lights out as it gets so far.

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Ryan

I've never liked the idea of the Comeback player of the year award going to someone who simply rebounded from a disappointing season. There should be more to it than that. Injury, losing the starting job, being out of the league, etc. Favre started every game last year and had a pretty good year up until the last quarter of the season. He doesn't deserve comeback player of the year, but some people are just absolutely obsessed with Brett Favre and will lobby for him to win any and every award possible. Same goes for Peyton Manning.

Rob0729

These awards are a bunch of hooey anyway. I'm not worried about it.

Peter King acts like a school girl around the captain of the football team whenever he talks about Favre. Not surprising that he would pick Favre as the comeback player.

I don't know what Adam Schein is smoking, but I want some. I have seen talk in Miami of people wanting to start Cameron Wake over Taylor. But I will admit I saw that in passing and not sure if that is general sentiment or just the lunatic fringe.

BradyManny

Favre started in all 16 games last year, I'm not even sure if he'd be eligible for a CPOY award. Peter King would probably award Favre w the Nobel Peace Prize if he could.

KontradictioN

Yeah. Taylor has been absolutely f'n terrible this season. I believe three and a half of those sacks came in a two game span. He has definitely hit the wall.

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R_T26

Brett favre winning cpoy would be an abomination. Shame on any fan or media type who would not be outraged at that. Giving the cpoy award to a guy who played every game last year and was voted to the probowl would make the award pointless. No one could justify that and only favre could win it under those circumstances. Just like he won si sportsman of the year, in the same year brady had the best season for a qb and went undefeated.
Media gets rug burned knees when it comes to favre.

N.Eman

Shoudl be Brady, Favre should win the Redundant Player of the Year

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BelichickFan

I don't give a crap about this award but based on where they all were 12 months ago, Brady has already won the award IMO.

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I thought we had a thread on this one already.

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