This past week the awards for the regular season were handed out in the NFL. The New England Patriots were well represented. They picked up, NFL MVP, AP Offensive Player of the Year, AP Coach of the Year and five AP All Pro First Team spots plus four other players were named to the All Pro Second Team.
Tom Brady received the most recognition capturing the MVP and Offensive Player of the Year Award, plus being named to the All Pro team. This season Brady established established career highs for completions (389), completion percentage (68.9), passing yards (4,806), passer rating (117.2), and touchdown passes (50), certainly a season worthy of the recognition he received. He was not however, a unanimous winner in the MVP nor was he a unanimous selection to the All Pro Team. One vote split his votes between Brady and Brett Farve. The Patriots did one unanimous selection to the All Pro team. That was Randy Moss. LaDainian Tomlinson was the only other unanimous selection. The other All Pro's for the Patriots were: First Team-Matt Light, Mike Vrabel, and Assante Samuel; Second Team-Wes Welker, Dan Koppen, Vince Wilfork and Logan Mankins. Last year the Patriots did not have any player on the All Pro First Team.
The other reward the Patriots received went to coach Bill Belichick for Coach of the Year. This is interesting considering all the negative press the Patriots, particularly, Belichick received for the spygate situation, and considering the fact that the award is given by the associated press. It seems they feel he has paid properly for the incident or they have decided that it didn't make that much of a difference. Either way its nice to see that the Patriots were well rewarded for the perfect season.
The Patriots look to continue their regular season success against the Jacksonville Jaguars at home on Saturday Night.
Keywords: All Pro, Bill Bellichick, Coach of the Year, Light, Mankins, MVP, New England, Patriots, Quarterback, Randy Moss, Samuel, Tom Brady, Welker
