Pro Bowl 2008

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by dmek25

thanks Matty. it seems like Fletcher is very deserving. i wonder why he didn't get the love?

I thought it should have been Fletcher and Willis, but Tatupu is a good player. That Fletcher was only a third alternate is kind of ridiculous. I don't know that anyone on the Skins, beyond maybe Sellers, is a major league snub. As everyone in the world has pointed out, the guys who got jobbed were Marques Colston, Fred Taylor, and Mario Williams. Plaxico Burress, Ernest Graham, and Joey Galloway probably also deserved some serious consideration.

Every year when the Pro Bowl is announced people ask why they don't push the voting back to the end of the season. I assume it is mostly about marketing and probably won't change, but the NFL really should push the voting back. If you are going to continue letting fans vote then push fan voting back to weeks 14-17 (rather than starting in October) and let the players vote the last week of the season. Won't happen so whatever. The real problem is that then you get to HOF balloting and Pro Bowls are used as part of the justification for enshrinement.