Comments on: AP names Matthew Stafford Comeback Player of Year http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: achamarro1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1566998 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:55 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1566998 Dan Marino 2.0…..Dan Marino had the swag the arm and the greatest white man fro in sports history. Oh and threw for 5k just a few months younger than stafford is.

]]> By: lionsdetroitcom http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1563498 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1563498 Matt Stafford is John Elway 2.0, I wrote about him on my blog. Future hall of famer….

]]> By: lionsdetroitcom http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1563490 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:19:52 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1563490 Matt deserves it!

]]> By: so1ar http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1560664 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:34:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1560664 how the eff do you throw for over 5000 yards and NOT make the joke bowl?

]]> By: 25robrown http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1560407 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:10 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1560407 How is it that Alex Smith was even in the vote for comeback player? It was the 49ers defense that got them into the playoffs – not Alex Smith.
All Smith did was improve his play from being lousy to an average quarterback.

]]> By: raiderapologist http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1560202 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:51:52 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1560202 33

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goldrush4949 says: Feb 4, 2012 10:21 PM

Alex Smith got robbed.

That’s just payback for all the money Smith has been stealing from the Niners since 2005.

]]> By: bamasleeper13 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1560062 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:32:19 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1560062 He was something to watch when he played at Georgia, I’m glad he won, he is a tough kid and never seems to give up. He has some great players around him, we should see a lot in the future. Maybe when he turns 24 is when he will get rid of the bed head haircut. :)

]]> By: whatswiththehate http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559970 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:47:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559970 latenightroach says:Feb 4, 2012 8:46 PM

Awesome job for Stafford.

HE should have been at the Pro Bowl instead of Cam Newton.
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Yeah, let’s push Cam aside so this kid can get his shine in the Pro-bowl. I wonder if Andrew Luck was playing like Cam and got choosen over Matt would you have felt the same way?

Please grow up. Matt came back when two rookie QBs and nothing less than 6 Vet QBs were on their game also this season. Be glad that he got an award for simply being able to finally play a for a full season without injuries since he was drafted and let the negative ranting go.

]]> By: joetoronto http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559948 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:31:26 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559948 Hats off to Stafford, this guy is a winner.

A blind man could see he was going to be something special if he could just stay healthy.

]]> By: nottosmart http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559946 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:20:24 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559946 Not only can’t “White Guys Jump”; This goes to show that “White Guys” don’t know how to dress up!

]]> By: mppalmer http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559941 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:54:58 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559941 Generally you have to have ascended to a certain status, gotten hurt, and then “come back” to reach or exceed that level again. He never got any higher than “he’s got a lot of potential” in his rookie year. So yeah, come back player of the year…..he might has well have been a rookie. He didn’t have to go very far to get back to where he’d been the year before, which was nowhere. Jackson was his teams best linebacker and led his team in tackles before missing two years with torn pectoral muscles then comes back to have an awesome season when a lot of people thought he could very well be done. I disagree with the choice.

]]> By: msclemons67 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559935 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:14:55 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559935 What in the hell did Alex Smith come back from? He sucked for 6 years and then he finally had an average season. That’s not a come back. That’s a late bloomer.

Stafford should have been the only vote.

]]> By: satch471 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559898 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:49:29 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559898 Hey wildduece03 and ezwriter69 this is the definition of comeback player of the year used by the NFL…..

The player named Comeback Player of the Year shows perseverance in overcoming adversity, in the form of not being in the NFL the previous year, a severe injury, or simply poor performance.

I’d say Stafford deserved it.

]]> By: tatum064 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559887 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:14:21 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559887 goldrush4949 says:
Feb 4, 2012 10:21 PM
Alex Smith got robbed.

Did we already forget where his career was in 2010?

Being boo’d mercilessly by the home crowd at Candlestick. Fans shouting for David Carr. Getting chewed out by Mike Singletary on the sideline and about ready to get run out of town.
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Ordinarily, i’d agree. But five super bowls v. a team that never one a Super Bowl and came back from 0-16?

Nah, riding with the Staff on this award. Well done. Those fourth quarter comebacks didn’t hurt, either …but Smith had a hell of a season as well.

]]> By: tatum064 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559885 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:10:07 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559885 zinn22 says:
Feb 4, 2012 7:11 PM
Didn’t he need to have a good year 1st before he could be a comeback player?

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Came back from injury, dingleberry.
Congrats, to Matthew, and those feisty, fighting Lions.

ROAR RESTORED.

]]> By: tdk24 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559871 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:40:26 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559871 This award is dumb. The guy has a full 16 game season for the first time and wins this award? Seems like it should go to someone that actually had a good season, then a down season, then back to a good season. I wouldn’t say stafford came back. It’s more like he finally arrived.

]]> By: shavodog1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559858 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:22:24 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559858 Why is Eli on this list? Really?

]]> By: christopher525 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559843 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:51:38 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559843 Big question to me is, how did Andre Carter not get more votes? Guy had completely disappeared after leaving San Fran, suddenly he’s become a beast again.

]]> By: thom4msu http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559817 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:09:40 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559817 D’Quan who? Should not be considered if only his baby momma couldn’t spell.

]]> By: scoregasmic http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559786 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:41:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559786 For those complaining about stafford not “coming back” from anything he came back from two years of injury and threw for over 5,000 yards…plus look at his stats before his injuries. And I know most of you don’t watch the lions but if you get the chance, you can tell stafford is gonna be something special for a long time

]]> By: 2greatgoldens http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559756 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:06:06 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559756 Can’t this kid (Stafford) afford a decent haircut? He looks like he just stepped out of the Brady Bunch set.

]]> By: ls100 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559720 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:40:00 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559720 To goldfish4949
Alex had pretty much the same stats as last year. The team improved yes, but Alex, not enough for the award. He came back down to a tebow type level in the championship game. He won’t ever be as good as #9 and will be considered a bust again next year. U guys should go after peyton.

]]> By: ls100 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559717 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:33:46 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559717 The kid is a stud and in 1 year proved that he was well deserving of the #1 pick! He has quite a few records already; most comebacks in a season, most 5td games to start his career and 4th qb to pass for 5g plus ever etc. etc. The lions r superbowl bound!!! Roar restored. Go lions

]]> By: goldrush4949 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559694 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:21:16 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559694 Alex Smith got robbed.

Did we already forget where his career was in 2010?

Being boo’d mercilessly by the home crowd at Candlestick. Fans shouting for David Carr. Getting chewed out by Mike Singletary on the sideline and about ready to get run out of town.

]]> By: klunge http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559691 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:19:21 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559691 dracko19 says:Feb 4, 2012 7:37 PM

He also should have been in the pro-bowl. Wonder if that screw job cost him any bonuses??
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Actually it did cost him…a free trip to Hawaii and a minimum of $25K bucks for participating. And most likely the $50K bucks for the winning team because the outcome surely would have been different had he played the second half rather than that turd Newton.

]]> By: ezwriter69 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559663 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:59:33 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559663 Comeback implies that you were of a certain status, lost it, and then, ahem, came BACK to where you were… there was certainly something to come back FROM, but absolutely nothing to come back TO. Some years, they ought to just pass on this award, no one was really deserving this year, as it seems to me is true many years.

]]> By: snoilog http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559651 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:48:55 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559651 liontomyself says:
Feb 4, 2012 9:21 PM
snoilog,

Don’t do that…..I am a lil dyslexic…….so I thought Millen was back
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I don’t joke about that mess

]]> By: orcheon http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559621 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:32:00 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559621 Should have gone to Tebow.

]]> By: liontomyself http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559606 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:21:02 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559606 snoilog,

Don’t do that…..I am a lil dyslexic…….so I thought Millen was back……lol.

ray0414,

Didn’t Eli also have like (I’m too lazy to look up stats) a 10 TD / INT difference?

Anyways, congrats Matt!!!!!…..and, I agree with you, please don’t be up for this award again.

]]> By: plum13sec http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/04/ap-names-matthew-stafford-comeback-player-of-year/#comment-1559553 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:56:06 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=222704#comment-1559553 i dont think he ever really lost much… he was young.

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