No love from NFL.COM: Midseason awards

[CJD]

(11-07-2015, 06:19 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Brady, Bellicheat all over the place.

One vote out of the whole page for Marvin as coach, every other position had zero votes.

How does T. Eifert not get a single vote for comeback player?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000572453/article/nfl-midseason-predictions-mvp-rookie-of-the-year-and-more

Comeback player is reserved for a player who was great, but hit a rough patch, whether that be injuries, controversies, suspensions or general ineffectiveness, back to being great. What did Eifert come back from? A mildly disappointing rookie year and a few good catches in a quarter of football last year?

I am, however, a little irritated that Atkins wasn't even mentioned for comeback player of the year. He doesn't have the stats to support winning the award, but it would have been nice if someone mentioned his name at least like as an honorable mention.

That said, I find it pretty understandable that we don't have many votes for anything.

Dalton isn't beating Brady for MVP or Offensive Player of the Year.

We don't have anyone standing head and shoulders above the league on defense. We have Atkins, Jones and Dunlap who are having fantastic years, but not DPOY worthy. At least not yet.

Our Rookies aren't doing anything, so no OROY or DROY votes.

And with 3 other undefeated teams, they weren't going to select Lewis for coach of the year. If we were the only undefeated team, sure, he'd be talked about. But even still, the regular season is not where Lewis struggles, so until he wins a playoff game, no one is saying he's the coach of the year, and that's completely fair. Coach of the year typically goes to a team that transcends all other teams, or a team that does WAY better than expected. Like when we made it to the playoffs in 2009 and we swept the division when people were saying we didn't stand a chance. And, surprisingly, Lewis did win COY that year. He would have won it 2011 for a similar reason, but the 49ers went 13-3 with Jim Harbaugh, and they were also expected to be one of the worst teams in the NFL.

And, as I said about comeback player of the year, we didn't have a feel good enough story (Berry) or a statistically impressive player (Palmer, Johnson, Peterson) to justify any votes there either.

I read the article and it made sense to me that no Bengals would be nominated for many awards. We are an effective team with good players and coaches throughout, but none that are miles ahead of the league. Not with Brady/Belichick still around, anyway.