Rookie of the Year ???

[Phin]

Did Cadillac get the ROY just because his team made it to the playoffs or was he deserving?

Rushing

Rank---Player-------Team-- Yds--Att--Avg--TDs--Long

13---Cadillac Williams--TB--1178--290--4.1---6----71

20---Ronnie Brown----MIA--907---207--4.4---4----65


Receiving

Cadillac Williams-------TB----81---20--4.1----0----15

Ronnie Brown---------MIA---232---32--7.3---1----38

 

[SCall13]

He was the media darling from the beginning.

 

[NJFINSFAN1]

He was deserving as was Merriman over Brown!

 

[Dredd1050]

He was the media darling from the beginning.

Yup. Bunch of horse pucky.

 

[Phin]

He was the media darling from the beginning.

Yeah, I feel that same about that.

 

[tay0365]

He was the media darling from the beginning.

I agree 100%. The only way Brown was going to beat Caddy, is if he had ended with much much better stats then Caddy...Close stats, with Ronnie in the lead would have still given the ROY award to Caddy.

 

[Scrap]

We picked a good player in the first round. Let's not worry about whether people think he's the best. Let's only worry about what he does for us.

 

[kastofsna120]

more yards, more TDs, more 100-yard games, played great late when brown didn't, team in the playoffs....cadillac deserved it

 

[davster82]

He was deserving as was Merriman over Brown!

I think the fact that Ronnie only had 1 1st place vote should safely say that if you aren't afflicted with major homerism, then Caddies win was justified. If Ronnie had broken the 1,000 yard barrier, he would have won. Both are going to be great players, barring major injury, for a long time. As stated in another thread, both were probably the appropriate picks for what the teams wanted to do with them.

 

[MikeO]

He was the media darling from the beginning.

HE HAD BETTER NUMBERS!

It has nothing to do with media, nicknames, or anything else. The numbers don't lie!

 

[GRAPEAPE]

Caddy had a bigger impacton his team and his numbers were better. That plus he was a media darling got him the ROY, he deserved it.

 

[UCFinfan86]

while they had similiar numbers, i still say Caddy deserved it b/c he was more valueable to his team then ronnie was. Ricky put up the same production and a little better when he started the last 2 weeks. When Caddy went out did Michael Pittman do anything? Caddy carried his team.

 

[Lederhosen]

Williams just had better numbers so he more than deserved the award. How would you justify giving the ROY award to Brown? Based on potential?

Also, who cares? troy Stradford was once ROY and look how much that meant.

 

[NawlinsBucFan]

while they had similiar numbers, i still say Caddy deserved it b/c he was more valueable to his team then ronnie was. Ricky put up the same production and a little better when he started the last 2 weeks. When Caddy went out did Michael Pittman do anything? Caddy carried his team.

:yeahthat:

So many people here seem to think Caddy winning ROY means everyone is spitting in RB's face. It's just an award for the rookie who had the best season and made the biggest contribution to the team. Carnell had the best season of all the offensive rookie this year. What's the problem?

 

[LarryFinFan]

He was the media darling from the beginning.

He overshadowed Brown in the first three games. Had Caddy not been in the league, Brown might have been the media darling...but Merriman and Ware had pretty good years too....

Besides, they did get to the p/o's where we didn't...