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Old 09-12-2011, 09:48 PM   #1
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Default MVP runner up: Dan Connolly

I went ahead and gave the player of the game award to Brady. I don't think anyone needs a reasoning behind that.

My darkhourse MVP for this game is Connolly. He stepped in for Koppen and the offense didn't skip a beat. He was brilliant in his shotgun snaps and help up in blocking.

When Koppen went down, that really was a point that things could have started going badly. It wouldn't have been the first time a team lost their center and then things fell apart. So Connolly deserves big time props for not only stepping in and handling things but IMO doing a very good job.
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I think we need to give Brian Waters major props. He's only had one week to master the complicated calls of the line and he didn't give up a sack and only had one false start and that was in garbage time.

Nothing less than amazing.
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All three players deserve props for their performance.
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I think MVP goes to Brady, and second place goes to every body else on the passing offense.
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I think we need to give Brian Waters major props. He's only had one week to master the complicated calls of the line and he didn't give up a sack and only had one false start and that was in garbage time.

Nothing less than amazing.
True, I gotta say, Waters did impress.
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All three players deserve props for their performance.
I agree with you and patspsycho. I was so amazed by how well Connolly played, I completely forgot about the excellent performance by Waters and Solder.
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The entire offense deserves MVP honors. That includes Ocho for playing his role.
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All three players deserve props for their performance.
Yep, really extraordinary. Everybody knows how important continuity is on the OL, and there you had:
- a rookie LT pressed into starting at RT
- the RG moving over to center in the middle of the game
- a career-long LG who's only been with the team a week taking over at RG.
By all rights, that should be a train wreck. Instead, a record-setting passing performance and a nice clean #12 jersey.
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Hey Psycho...I never heard a peep about Waters all night...I mean they were blabbing and blathering and blithering about lint in Reggie Busah's jock and swearinbg and generally acting Jokeresque on national TV...guess Waters had a good debut...why...why did KC of all teams, let HIM go???????
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If you'd said a month ago we would have gotten strong line play from Connolly/Waters/Solder on the right side, folks would have been rightly skeptical.

All three were also playing out of the positions they're most experienced in.
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