Each year, the NFL Players Association holds the NFLPA PULSE Awards. This year, Brian Dawkins is a candidate in a Fan Choice category recognizing endurance.
The Endurance award rewards a player for a career distinguished by longevity, durability and consistency.
Fans can vote for Dawkins, who is nominated alongside Ronde Barber of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tony Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons, Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Charles Woodson of the Green Bay Packers.
The other Fan Choice categories include Emerging Player, Heart of the Game and Comeback Player.
Online fan voting for the 2012 NFLPA PULSE Awards is now officially open. Registered fans can vote up to five times per day through mid-December at PULSEAwards.com and will be entered to win prizes.
-Gray Caldwell
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Endurance.
That right there is as good a description of Dawkins’ career as any.
I mean the guy is 38.
Hope you win it!
And all the guys nominated are still forces in the game even so they’ve been there forever:
Ronde Barber, Tony Gonzalez, Hines Ward and Charles Woodson.
WOW!!!
Tough competition, all worthy of the endurance title that’s for sure…
Broncos 23 …. Jets 17
Tebow: 199 passing yards 2 passing td’s… 65 yards rushing
Dear Mr. FOX,
Thank you for allowing coach McCoy to tweek the offense towards Tebow’s strengths. You showed real leadership, and we are all proud.
I hate to ask you for anything, but I must. Coach can you please allow McCoy to call alot of short passing plays in the middle of the field. Please use the TE again, and the screen pass, and maybe a WR hook pass, or even a ….. QUICK SLANT.. I know this would take a tremendous amount of courage on your part, due to you extreme fearfulness of a turnover, but it will show us fans that you are a truely a great man (which I know you are).
Thank you again for all that you have done so far this season, and I look forward to Thursday game.
Sincerely,
Fox’s Biggest Denver FAN
Dear Mr. Fox,
You were an innovator in Carolina and you’re proving that you aren’t afraid to go against conventional wisdom here. Thank you for doing whatever ever it takes to win games, and please continue to run, pass or do whatever you need to do to win! You are the man!
GO BRONCOS!
Dear Mr. Fox
I just thought I would see how many blog posts we could get in a row that start with Dear. Mr Fox. hope I’m not too late
That’s the guy who continuously called Fox everything in the book a couple months ago.
You better hope he doesn’t read these posts because if he did read your previous one he would bypass anything you have to say from now on for life! LMAO
Herein comes the value of toning down your opinions just a tat, haha.
Was of course talking about armadillo, LOL.
previous oneS, there were dozens…
How did we go from Dawk to Fox, haha.
Haha, Bay! He tried that same good cop bad cop strategy when trying to get him to bench Orton earlier this year. Or should I say bad cop, good cop?
Good luck Dawkins. I hope you win it!
Willis McGahee limited in Broncos practice
By Lindsay H. Jones
The Denver Post
The Broncos have about 24 more hours to decide if starting tailback Willis McGahee will be able to play against the New York Jets.
McGahee again was a limited participant in practice today morning in the team’s final session in preparation for the game Thursday night.
Head coach John Fox will release a final injury report at the conclusion of practice, around 12:45 p.m. All of the Broncos 53 players were present at the start of practice, though several ran back into the building to add more layers because of a biting wind.
It is expected that McGahee, who injured his left hamstring last week against the Chiefs, will be listed as questionable.
McGahee is a critical piece of the Broncos’ run-first offense, with an average of 5.0 yards per carry and four 100-yard games. He played for only one series against Kansas City before he was injured on a red zone carry.
Should McGahee be unable to play, Lance Ball — previously the No. 3 back — would make his first career start.
With 30 carries against the Chiefs, Ball more than doubled his previous single-game high in attempts (13) last week after McGahee and Knowshon Moreno were injured.
Jeremiah Johnson, signed off the practice squad on Monday, could also get the first rushing attempts of his career.
our deffense should be able to take care of sanchez. We should win 23-19 I love the running game that fox installed. No one can’t say our line is weak true warriors in the trenches. Keep up the good work allen.
Dear Denver Broncos,
The Jets are talking A LOT of trash for a team that has only won one more game than we have. They scored 16 points against the worst defense in the league. Let’s play with some pride (like you already have) tomorrow night and beat them at their own physical style of football. Let’s clobber their quarterback. Let’s punish their aggressiveness on defense with our zone blocking scheme, and then punch them in the mouth with the power o when they hold back. These guys think it’s all about read option with us. Let’s show them that we have the most complex running attack in the league, and then air it out as needed. I know no one in the locker room has forgotten what happened the last time we were home. These guys want to embarrass us again. They are not an elite team this season. 5-4 is not an elite record. Lets wear these punks out in Mile High and show them what it really means to be a tough football team! When you’re done they’ll be 5-5 like we are, wondering how they got beat by the Broncos.
Sincerely,
A fanatical fan
GO BRONCOS
Dr. Mr. Fox,
Please dial up blitz packages involving Dawkins! Lol
Dawkins is a true professional. He should be a coach when he decides to retire. Talk about motivation!!
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