End of Year Awards – The Way I See It
So now that our beautiful regular season has been in the books for a while, it’s definitely time to take a look back at the season that was. This season was far from normal in any shape or form. The following are the prizes that I see appropriate. We’ll start with the cliché.
MVP: To be honest, when I sat down to proofread this piece, I was playing Randy Moss. To me, he was the reason Tom Brady was so ridiculously awesome. Then I did some research and found some really scary stats: Let’s just say we need to remove ALL of Moss’s stats. I mean all of his nearly 1,500 receiving yards and 23 touchdowns and I pretend they never existed and no one else made up for those yards. In this world I just mentioned, Brady would STILL be top 9 QB in touchdowns and top 10 in passing yards. That’s just about the scariest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. With that being the case, there’s no way he could make a valid argument for MVP for anyone other than Tom Brady.
Biggest Garbage Bag of the Year Award: Now this was definitely tough. So many options, so little time. Who am I kidding? There is one and only one option for this award, if you want to call it that: The one. The only. Darth Hoodie himself.
Belichick: “Wow. It’s such an honor to win this award. I’d like to thank so many people. First of all, all the teams that allowed me to be a scumbag and go up the score when I already had a 90-0 lead. Or , and all the refs who helped pave the way to perfection. Eric Mangini for ratting me out. I thought we were guys. That’s all.”
Rookie of the Year: Short and Sweet. Adrian Peterson. Next!
Player of the year out of the blue: It was hard to decide, because there were 2 players that I felt really deserved this award. However, I had to go with my boy, Ryan Grant. Let’s throw you some stats: 986 rushing yards and 8 touchdowns. Not that impressive, is it? Wrong. He did it in 10 games. Grant wasn’t the team’s starter until Week 8. Do a little deductive reasoning and you could put his season totals at around 1600 rushing yards and 13-14 touchdowns if he’d started the entire season. I can’t wait to see this kid play a full season next year.
Fantasy stud of the year: You’d probably be the #1 or #2 seed in the playoffs if you had this guy: none other than the Golden Boy himself again, Tom Brady. Back to his scary stats: Brady scored 390 fantasy points this season. The second best player? 307. That’s a big difference when you look at the rest of the leaders and notice that their differences are around 5 points between them. Rating 83 points.
(only have one picture of him. You don’t need two)
Fantasy Upset of the Year: As consolation for not winning the Out of Nowhere award, Derek Anderson is a no-brainer for Fantasy Upset of the Year. When he had that ridiculous game against Cincinnati a long time ago, no one in his right mind thought he was going to perform at a high level all season. Well, I guess he writes one down for people who aren’t in his right mind. With the exception of the last few weeks (when I needed him the most…damn you Anderson) Anderson was a fantasy stud.
Thus concludes another wonderful NFL regular season. We still have a few games to play and a few New England Patriots Super Bowl championships to win.