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The Middie Awards

By Dave Choate
Forget this clunky thing. It's all about the Mid-Season Awards, Baby!
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Just in time for Election Season, the football writers at SB Nation were polled on their picks for the best and worst players, coaches, and teams at the midway point of the 2006 NFL season. Surprisingly, several races were blowouts, except for "Worst Coach" at the midway point, which ended up as a tie. Somehow, I doubt the "winners" of this category will ask for a re-count. For many, it's not surprising that the Rookie of the Midway Point plays for New Orleans. The surprising part is it's certainly not Reggie Bush. Bush did get a rookie award, but not the kind many at ESPN were expecting.

So, without further ado, here are the SB Nation NFL Mid-Season Awards:

The Studs:

NFL MVP: Peyton Manning, QB Colts

Offensive Player: Peyton Manning, QB Colts

Defensive Player: Champ Bailey, CB Broncos

Coach: Sean Payton, Saints

Rookie: Marques Colston, WR Saints

The Duds:

Worst Player: Ben Roethlisberger, QB Steelers (Edgerrin James, RB Cardinals, pulled in a very close second)

Worst Coach: Tie between Dennis Green (Arizona Cardinals) and Nick Saban (Miami Dolphins)

Worst Rookie: Reggie Bush, RB Saints. Somewhere, Stuart Scott at ESPN is crying.

Some funny nuggets from the SB Nation writers as they turned in their ballots:

From WCG:

Biggest Thrill that they are so Bad: Redskins, so much money, so little wins.

I'm sure Skin Patrol appreciates that.

From saint:

Worst Coach: Saban... With a shout out to Tom Walsh!!!

Walsh is the offensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders, the team saint blogs for. Oakland was shut out again on Monday Night Football this week. As you can see, saint is a little upset.

Though not a category, the best write-in stuff game from Gonzo at Daily Norseman:

Best Defensive Player: I'm going to throw in a write-in for Pat Williams here. Yes, he's awesome. Yes, I'm a homer. No, I don't care.
Worst Player: Another write-in vote for a guy from my team... Troy Williamson... kid couldn't catch gonorrhea in a Vietnamese whorehouse.
Worst Rookie: Reggie Bush... and I wasted a second-round fantasy pick on the guy.

That concludes the 2006 Mid-Season awards. We'll do a 2006 Season Awards when the regular season concludes.

Just so everyone knows, my votes were for:
MVP: Peyton Manning
OP: Peyton Manning
DP: Aaron Kampman
Coach: Lovie Smith
Rookie: Marques Colston
WP: Edgerrin James
WC: Mike McCarthy
WR: Reggie Bush (Take that, hype machine!)

What would your votes be, guys?

[editor's note, by Dave the Falconer] Just want to give out a shout out to BigBlueShoe at Stampede Blue, who started the voting and put the whole thing together. Kudos!

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