But the vote totals show him up. Nice for the big uglies to get some credit. The flip with he and Spikes seemed to work wonders and hopefully they keep it up for three more years.

and apparently I’m alone in that thinking. My reasons were two-fold. First, I wanted to select someone that played last year so I eliminated Patterson and Hatch – both obviously improved a lot as the year went on and were integral to our success, but we really didn’t have a measuring stick for them coming into the year.

As for the returning players, I selected Laptad because I thought he truly improved the most from last year to this. Obviously Briscoe, Meier and Wilson would have all been good choices because of the drastic increase in production from all three. Same with Holt. And Thornton really proved valuable when he moved to corner. What separated Laptad for me was that he became an every down player. Last year he was a pass rusher only, that showed promise. This year he became a viable run stopper as well, improved his pass rushing and showed the ability to play effectively no matter the situation. Our d-line was probably the weakest aspect of our team, but I don’t even want to imagine what it would have looked like without Laptad.