I suggest we all get behind someone else, say Curtis Painter?

But can he pick up a 7-10 split?

JerseyTim: But can he pick up a 7-10 split?

Only if it's the Lord's will. In which case, the Holy Roller will implement the will of the Lord.

I don't know, he's going to have trouble beating out MJD, Foster, Fred Jackson and Willis McGahee...

I vote for Peyton Manning.

Seriously, people really care about who goes to the Pro Bowl?

Here's the thing... who else is there in the AFC?

WhoIsWillo: Here's the thing... who else is there in the AFC?

You don't understand....he's religious. We've never had a religious football player (relentlessly thrown in our faces by the farking idiots at espn)before. Therefore he can't/must be a Pro-Bowler. And don't flame me, but some media people are saying he's actually not a very good quarterback.

WhoIsWillo: Here's the thing... who else is there in the AFC?

The entire AFC South has a messed up QB situation, with Manning and Schaub both out, Garrard being cut and the rookie pulled, and Hasselbeck playing confusing ball. In the West, Campbell was doing well but is lost and his replacement isn't lighting it up, Rivers is underperforming, and KC is down to suiting up the grounds crew. Brady is Brady, but there's no QB in Miami, Sanchez is ass, and Fitzpatrick has regressed to the mean. Roethlisberger is there, but Flacco is going bsckwards, Dalton is an ok rookie but nothing remarkable, and McCoy wouldnt be recognized at his own birthday party. If there's a year for someone like Tebow to sneak in, it's this year.

Incidentally, assuming Tebow completes the season, by the time Pro Bowl voting ends, he will have started exactly as many games as Matt Schaub.

Number of AFC QBs I'd rather see in the Pro Bowl and clearly deserve it:

Tom Brady
Ben Roethlisberger

that's it.

And either one or both of them is going to miss the game because they're going to be playing deep into the playoffs.

You could make cases for maybe Palmer or Fitzpatrick or Dalton if the Broncos start tanking but even if you're a Tebow hater, he'd be an exhibition quarterback for an exhibition game. Perfect.

Morpheses: kronicfeld: I don't know, he's going to have trouble beating out MJD, Foster, Fred Jackson and Willis McGahee...

+1 Awesome.

Even if you want to count him as an RB, he's got numbers nearly as good as McGahee and Jackson is done for the season so he doesn't matter.

EyeballKid: Did somebody ask for a quarterback who revived an AFC West team who can actually throw the ball?

Revived? They were winning before he came in.

EyeballKid: Did somebody ask for a quarterback who revived an AFC West team who can actually throw the ball?

Yes, his five games played, 9 turnovers and 6 TD passes and stellar sub-80 QB rating make him Pro Bowl worthy...

IAmRight: Jackson is done for the season so he doesn't matter

He played ten games, Tebow will have played ten games once voting ends. There's supposed to be a difference?

Pratty: Fred Jackson will be injured and unable to play, so he's ineligible I believe.

Ok, from an able-to-play perspective, I don't disagree. But if the metric is performance, rather than availability, then there's no difference. And it's not like we take away the Pro Bowler designation from players who decline to play in the game, or get injured in the interim.

kronicfeld: He played ten games, Tebow will have played ten games once voting ends. There's supposed to be a difference?

One would be available to play, one wouldn't. Seems like a significant difference to me.

EyeballKid: I don't give Jason Campbell credit, true. I'm probably still biased after my season having him on my fantasy team when he was handing off the ball or lobbing it 7 yards to nobody for the Redskins.

I don't think he's that good either, but the Raiders were leading the division with him at QB. So Palmer is an even less impressive candidate if you think little of Campbell.

kronicfeld: Ok, from an able-to-play perspective, I don't disagree. But if the metric is performance, rather than availability, then there's no difference. And it's not like we take away the Pro Bowler designation from players who decline to play in the game, or get injured in the interim.

Oh, and for what it's worth, if Tebow finishes the season, he'll have played 11.5 games. (half of the SD game)

I have a dream that one year the entire pro-bowl roster for both sides just refuses to go. Then the 2nd wave of invites go out, and they refuse too. Then the third. Finally you get enough people who are confused about what it is to go, and it's the Stephen McGee-led NFC using their dazzling aerial assault against the stingy Mortty Ivy-led AFC squad.

My point, which I didn't really make, is that the Pro Bowl voting is stupid already, what with it starting a couple games into the season and ending with a couple games left to go. People are voting based on less than 3/4 of the season, and way less if they're making their picks when voting opens. When the voting ends, you don't know who might be injured AFTER the voting, so it's not quite fair to exclude someone who might have been injured late in the season, but not someone who is lucky enough to not tear their ACL until week 17. All among the many reasons that the Pro Bowl is retarded. You'd think the country's most popular and lucrative sport could find a way to make its all-star game better than the other pro sports' games, but it fails miserably.