Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Tom Brady AP Offensive Player of the Year 2007

Well here's a shocker, Tom Brady, quarterback of the jet-set record-setting New England Patriots won the 2007 Associated Press Offensive Player of the Year. As if anyones really surprised by that. Tom Brady is one of only 3 quarterbacks to have every garnered this award. The other two were, yep you guessed it, Brett Favre (fah-ver-rah) and Peyton Manning. It's also Brady's second time he's won the award joining the likes of Manning, Shaun Alexander and LaDanian Tomlinson. Humble in everything though, it's all about the team:

"Individual awards haven't been as important to me as the team goals, and I've said that for a long time," Brady said. "While I'm very flattered to be honored in that way, I understand that my greatest satisfaction comes from winning games and being the leader of this football team. I take that job very seriously and I hope that translates into a win this week."


What really struck me about this though, 3 of the 4 finalists for the award were Patriots. Tom Brady, Randy Moss and Wes Welker. Come on, Wes Welker, please. Yes he's had a good year. Yes he is a good player. But please, Wes Welker is not even the number 1 or 2 on the team. It's just my opinion but there were other more noteable players that could have been there. The other final contestant was Brett Favre. Not surprising though was the Tom Brady and Randy Moss were 1 and 2 in the voting. The dynamic-duo has simply been incredible this year. Let's just take a look at some of the accolades:

Tom Brady, Randy Moss, Patriots in General
  1. Threw for 50 touchdowns, previous record 49
  2. Completion Percentage 68.9
  3. Passer Rating 117.2
  4. Passing Yards: 4,806
  5. Randy Moss 23 touchdowns beating Jerry Rice's 22 touchdown record, and some of those catches were outstanding
  6. Scored 589 points
  7. 75 touchdowns


Voting wasn't even really close at 35.5 votes to 12.5 votes for the runner-up. But it was nice to see Randy Moss get the recognition he deserved to after the year he has had. Congratulations Tom Brady on a proficient and outstanding year.

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