Vote Brandon Mebane

by John Morgan on Jan 26, 2009 12:37 PM PST

Second half malaise suffocated my Pro Bowl campaign for Brandon Mebane. Mebane is my favorite player and the true heart of Seattle's run defense. Football Outsiders is running its annual awards and I would like Mebane to make a strong run for "most underrated defensive player in the NFL". Mebane is a true one tech, the kind of defensive tackle that demands double teams on almost every snap and frees surrounding playmaking talent to make plays. This season, Mebane added a sick first step and made some plays of his own. He tied for the team lead in sacks, and unlike Darryl Tapp's sacksplosion against Milford Brown in 2007, Mebane was consistently effective. His recorded a sack or split sack in six games. Mebane just turned 24 and in 2008 only cost ~550k against the cap. He's already a star level talent and an exceptional value. The kind of building block a great defense is built atop and truly underrated, undervalued and unknown by all but the hardcore. Do him and me a solid and show him some love.

On another note, Field Gulls is the reigning "favorite team-specific website or blog". That was very cool and a huge honor for me, so thanks again to everyone who made that happen.

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Done and done.

Mebane would get more recognition if Rocky Bernard didn’t abruptly start sucking this season and take advantage of Mebane drawing double teams. Here’s to Red Bryant or something.

"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on Jan 26, 2009 12:48 PM PST reply actions

Easily handled, although I did face difficulty in determining Overrated Special Teamer...

Also, I didn’t know what blog to list as my favorite Team-Specific Blog, so I just wrote “Any Niner’s Blog”….

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!! I DRINK IT UP!!

by abender20 on Jan 26, 2009 1:12 PM PST reply actions

I usually just vote Adam Vinitari

by MFAN on Jan 26, 2009 1:17 PM PST up reply actions

I'm confused

Joke?

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by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 26, 2009 7:10 PM PST up reply actions

Me too.

O_o;

"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on Jan 26, 2009 7:52 PM PST up reply actions

Yeah, clearly a joke although perhaps too dry. Who here wouldn't vote for FG?

It’s like Ricky Bobby said… “If you don’t vote for Field Gulls, FUCK YOU!”

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!! I DRINK IT UP!!

by abender20 on Jan 27, 2009 8:26 AM PST up reply actions

No John Carlson option

for rookie of the year?

Also, it’s probably harder for Tapp to have a consistent amount of sacks, since hie playing time was erratic (it seemed to me anyways)

by LantermanC on Jan 26, 2009 1:26 PM PST reply actions

Yeah, I was kind of surprised Carlson wasn't an option.

by MFAN on Jan 26, 2009 1:27 PM PST up reply actions

hie = his....

Not sure what happened there…

by LantermanC on Jan 26, 2009 1:29 PM PST up reply actions

I'm pretty sure I know what happened ::dons double billed tweet hat, lights pipe::

It appears you hit E, the direct neighbor to S. hmmmm

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by abender20 on Jan 26, 2009 1:37 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

underrated offensive player

by Misfit74 on Jan 26, 2009 8:19 PM PST up reply actions

For Special teams, I felt Josh Wilson missed recognition considering he had the most yards on KO returns and most returns.

by Built2Spill on Jan 26, 2009 1:32 PM PST reply actions

Both of those are factors of getting scored on a lot, something that Wilson didn't control.

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by abender20 on Jan 26, 2009 1:38 PM PST up reply actions

Voted!!!

For Mebane….and Josh Wilson to have a breakout year

and Josh Brown as most overrated ST player….

by DSAhawker on Jan 26, 2009 1:51 PM PST reply actions

I voted for Jay Feely.

The guy was awesome this year.

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jan 26, 2009 3:04 PM PST up reply actions

I voted John Kasay

kicker most likely to boot it out of bounds right after a HUGE score.

"Those who fear disorder more than injustice inevitably produce more of both." -- Rev. William Coffin

by dcrockett17 on Jan 26, 2009 7:01 PM PST up reply actions

I thought Rhys Lloyd handled kickoff duty for the Panthers.

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Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on Jan 26, 2009 7:53 PM PST up reply actions

Whoops.

I read DSAhawker’s comment as “underrated ST player”

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jan 27, 2009 9:39 AM PST up reply actions

And for what it's worth

The Rams were +5.1 points on XP/FG and +2.3 points on kickoffs.

I will smash your face into a jelly.

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jan 27, 2009 11:45 AM PST up reply actions

Done deal

Congratulations John! You do an awesome job and deserve it.

by Dukeshire on Jan 26, 2009 2:32 PM PST reply actions

Thank YOU for all of your hard work, John.

"It's just one big guy against another big guy, both teams know what's at stake. The one of them comes out on top and it feels good."
-Chris Collinsworth, Madden 09

by Wayward Llama on Jan 26, 2009 2:37 PM PST reply actions

What timing.

I read the comments from last year that John M. made regarding ‘the obvious snub of Brandon Mebane’ for FO’s rookie team of ‘07 just yesterday. Wow. I agreed with John’s case for him in the 2007 campaign, and certainly we’ve all seen Mebane’s development continue. Dude is a beast and I love him. One half of our Northwest ‘Williams Wall’ in the making. I’m in.

by Misfit74 on Jan 26, 2009 6:48 PM PST reply actions

Oh, and congrats on the accolade.

I was unaware of it. That links the ‘07 ’for the win!’, but can we vote for this year on this site’s behalf, or who comprises the vote – how is that done? I’d love to support this site in every way I can. Well, except to ‘stop commenting’. ;)

by Misfit74 on Jan 26, 2009 6:55 PM PST reply actions