Pro Football Focus Agrees: Chris Gamble was Snubbed

Is his bounce back from a disappointing year to be dominant. Without him how bad would our secondary be? People were calling him ‘over the hill’ and ‘well past his best’, him and anderson have held this defence together and dragged it kicking and screaming through games

I know we are all supposed to accept that players from a small market team won’t get acknowledged as much as big market players, but in this day and age of instant technology it’s complete bullshit. The NFL really sucks when it comes to the Pro Bowl. Allowing it to only be a popularity contest is just silly.

Tramon Williams is better than Woodson, and he is only an alternate. It just really sucks for Gamble.

If you wanna look at stats to compare Woodson to Gamble, use all the stats. Gamble played great and deserves to be in the Pro Bowl, but Woodson deserves to be there, too. Woodson leads the league in interceptions with 7, compared to Gamble’s 3. 24 PD to 15, 64 tackles to 40 for Gamble, 2 sacks to none for Gamble and 1 TD. Gamble had a great year, but you can’t take away what Woodson has done. Additionally, it is a team game. When we give up 2nd half leads because our secondary is getting burned, Gamble gets part of the blame even though he may have blanketed his man the whole game. For example, when you think of the Arizona game, do you remember Gamble doing anything? If he had Fitzgerald locked down, and the ball wasn’t thrown that way, there’s nothing to remember. But when we give up 4 TD passes to Matt Ryan, people remember, even though Gamble had Roddy White locked down and Julio Jones was making plays on Butler.
And then you say Woodson gave up twice as many yards as Gamble, but that’s because the CB opposite Gamble sucked half the time, and it was smarter to go that way, and because the Packers have always had the lead in the 2nd half, so teams are always throwing on them. Lastly, how many of the yards given up by Woodson were from the CAM to Smitty combo? Can’t blame Woodson for getting CAM’d…lots of people have been getting CAM’d all year.

Just surprising how only surrendering 23 catches on 55 targets(41.8%). 12.3 yards per reception, 70 yards after catch( which is lowest in the league). 47.8 passer rating allowed against him, which is 2nd behind Revis. Oh yeah as stated only allowing 284 yards on the year doesn’t get a vote of being an alternate is horrible.

Other snubs:
Chris Myers
Jordy Nelson
Tramon Williams

I’m sure there are more.

Been a while since I’ve made an appearance on the sight. Its good to be back. Anyway, was just wondering but i thought the pro bowl is a fans choice. I know players and coaches get to vote as well but i remember a couple years ago the players said they voted for people they heard were good, not really paying attention to who had a really good year. Anyway as a small market team i can’t say i’m surprised our players didn’t make it. Newton was robbed, Gamble should have at least been an alternate, and James anderson should of even deserved some recognition. He was outstanding for our defense especially after we lost beacon and davis. However, the only way to remedy the situation is to have the team start winning again so our players get attention they deserve. Besides Gamble might make the all pro team. Which is even more important. For a corner to shut down number one receivers despite the lack of pressure on the QB is worthy of that at least. Hope you all have been well and Glad that our panthers are finally playing like they should.

He’s just a damn good shutdown corner. People will ignore guys getting burned a little more often if it means they had some big INTs.

that flopped on the shockey “contact” when we played them?

I know we already paid him. But imagine what kinda money he might want if he started making the pro bowl. I honestly only care if Kalil, Smith, or Newton make the probowl since they do a very eye popping job….and they’re getting paid for it

On the page where you vote they should show 3 relevant stats (by position) under each player’s name/face. It would be harder to robo-vote by name recognition if you could see the guy next to him had better stats in every category.
examples:

for RBs it should show TDs, total combined yards and YPA
for CBs it should show INTs, total yards allowed and either completed pass percentage or QBR against.

We can argue what stats they should show for each position, these are just my first suggestions, but what does everyone think? Would this help even it out?