Polamalu, Pouncey, Wallace and Brown named AFC Pro Bowl Starters, Roethlisberger a Back-Up

what was Ray Lewis? Much higher than he deserved!

James and wood ended up as alternates due to their name. They both have missed substantial time.

Had more interactions with the camera than any player in the AFC.

but calling him a “bum” is not fair either!

Not really, but ok.

Kuhn was one of the final cuts going into the 2007 season, but looking back at that year reveals that we did have two (yes, two!) FBs on the initial 53-man roster to start that season. One of them – Carey Davis – is not recalled wistfully by many around here, but the other – Dan Kreider – was a real blocking FB.

In hindsight, of course we can say that we should have kept Kuhn over Davis (Davis was a coaching favorite because of his hands, even though we learned he couldn’t do much once the ball was in his hands). Kuhn’s skillset was somewhere between Davis and Kreider, but there’s no way we would’ve kept all three of them, and I guess five years ago Kuhn did not prove himself to be straight up better than either of the others.

But even today, I’m not sure why Kuhn is a Pro Bowl caliber player. The Packers rushing offense is the 6th worst in the league – though maybe Kuhn’s blocking is keeping their running game from being deeper in the basement. I know he’s been a fan-favorite in Green Bay for a few years, but I’m just not convinced he’s a blocking FB of the same caliber as Vonta Leach.

In all honesty, the fullback position in its traditional sense should no longer be worthy of a Pro Bowl spot if we are to most accurately reflect the game as it is today. The Pro Bowl roster and voting should probably be revised to better reflect the prevalence of h-backs or two-TE sets, instead of maintaining the fullback spot out of tradition and trying to shoehorn h-backs in there just to fill out the ballot without actually adjusting the category/explicit criteria to accurately represent the nominees.

When I was filling out my ballot(s), I had no idea who to vote for as the NFC’s fullback. Eventually I settled on Michael Robinson of the Seahawks because I assumed that he must be doing a decent job for Marshawn Lynch to be going wild. I bet you that most voters (fans/players/you name it) reached that part of the ballot and decided to vote for Kuhn just because he’s a Packer (winning teams always get a bump/benefit of the doubt like that).

I understand your sentiment, but I can’t chalk this up as a direct failing of Bruce Arians.

As a side note – we did not actually draft Kuhn (he was a UDFA).

I omitted Revis just so I could vote for Joseph, Ike, and Flowers. I was impressed by what I saw of Flowers when we played the Chiefs and when they played the Chargers a few weeks earlier in that Monday Night game.

I would love for Ike to get more recognition, as would befit his value to our team, but I also do agree with you about his shortcomings. Sometimes he does get beat and sometimes he does guess wrong and get caught out of position. However, I have to balance that with the fact that I’ve seen almost all of Ike’s defensive snaps this year and relatively few of most of the other top CBs snaps that are not on highlight reels.

In the end, I feel like I’m encouraged to be a homer when filling out my ballot(s) and I’ll probably vote for Ike so long as his name is on there.

I am more concerned about them getting the All-Pro team correct than I am the Pro-Bowl.

And remember people, the players and coaches are counting as 2/3 of the votes as well, so Ray Lewis getting picked is obviously a result of their thinking as well, not just the fans.

shirley, you cant be serious. No way in hell should Kemo even have a single vote.