Player of the Week for week 1

Max Power1

Right this might be a viable thread (a la ben roethlisberger) or it might bomd (a la Tim Couch) but lets see:

My nominations for player of the week of week 1:

Offense: RB Adrian Peterson MIN. 180 yards rushing, 3tds. Again showing LT who the premiere rusher in pro ball is.

Defense: A slightly more difficult choice here, Im going with DE Richard Seymour OAK. 6 Tackles and 2 sacks is a great input. Worth a 1st rounder? We'll see as the season progresses!

Opinions etc greatly recieved!

Dodge

Good idea IMO. We might as well throw Rookie of the week in there.

I'll go with AP for offensive POTW

AJ Hawk of the Packers for Defensive POTW

Mark Sanchez of the jets for Rookie of the week

ReacherCreature

Offense - Drew Brees, 358 yards, 6 touchdowns.

Defense - Osi Umenyiora, 4 tackles, sack, forced fumble and a touchdown.

Rookie - Mark Sanchez, 18/31, 272 yards and a touchdown.

Pherekydes

Drew Brees, Osi Umenyora and Mark Sanchez.

Honorable mentions to 'All Day', Troy Polamalu and Percy Harvin.

Vikings

Adrian Peterson, without a doubt.... (obviously ) for O.

I'd have to say Polamalu for D, even though he only played a fraction of the game he was scary to watch.

Honorable D mentions go to Jonny Jolly of the Packers for his awesome interception and Brandon Chillar for his over athletic sack of Jay Cutler, that was one of the funniest plays I have seen in a long time.

DonkeyPokerTour

Vikings wrote: »

I'd have to say Polamalu for D, even though he only played a fraction of the game he was scary to watch.

I have to disagree here, yes he made one very good interception but he had 3 penelty's called on him including a facemask penelty for i think a total of 35yards.

On offence its a really tough call between Adrian and Drew Breeze. I think i'll edge towards Drew Breeze on this one.

On defence I'll have to go with Osi, 1st game back and he has a touchdown! long may that continue

Rookie, I'll have to go with Sanchez, of course the QB is so obvious and there were many other good rookie performances but I think having a win in game 1 of your career is very impressive.

Worst "Well Known" player of the week goes to Brandon Marshall, what did he do coat his gloves in butter, the man couldn't catch a cold! Goes to show what not practicing with a QB can do!

Hynzie

DonkeyPokerTour wrote: »

On defence I'll have to go with Osi, 1st game back and he has a touchdown! long may that continue!

Il drink to that!!:D

Royal Seahawk

Brees, Osi and Sanchez.

Honourable mention for John Carlson anyone?

ReacherCreature

DonkeyPokerTour wrote: »

Rookie, I'll have to go with Sanchez, of course the QB is so obvious and there were many other good rookie performances but I think having a win in game 1 of your career is very impressive.

I thought James Laurinitas done well too with 14 tackles in St. Louis. He's going to have a decent season

Royal Seahawk wrote: »

Brees, Osi and Sanchez.

Honourable mention for John Carlson anyone?

Yup. Looking forward to watching him this year!

RichTea

Drew Brees, Osi Umenyiora (great return to action) and Sanchez.

davyjose

Yeah Brees, Osi and Sanchez for me too.

AP is an absolute class act, one of my absolute favourite players in the league. But 6 Touchdowns is 6 Touchdowns, and there'll be few better performances in the league than that, for the rest of the season.

Vikings

It was the Lions defense though.... and watching the highlights a fair portion of them were from blown coverage. Not taking anything away from Brees here, ya still have to take advantage of things like that to put up those kind of numbers and he did have a great performance.

Look for AP to run up 6 td's this Sunday though

The Munky

O - Drew Brees..... Stats don't lie!!
D - TP43 - did more in one quarter of football then most do in a game
R- Gotta be Mark 'Playboy' Sanchez

DonkeyPokerTour

The Munky wrote: »

O - Drew Brees..... Stats don't lie!!
D - TP43 - did more in one quarter of football then most do in a game
R- Gotta be Mark 'Playboy' Sanchez

Sorry for noob question but who is TP43?

Thanks
Ian

Sea Devils

Troy Polamalu.

brennaldo

off - brees or AP
def - troy polamalu
rook - sanchez

any predictions for gameweek 2, yes i know its impossible to call but mine would be...

off - pieterson against the lions would be an obvious one, im gonna hope for a stormer from manning against an unpredictable dolphins

def - too hard to call, im not so caught up with defence as much as offense so

rook - well both sanchez and stafford are up against hard teams but i wouldnt write the jets off against the pats, so il go sanchez again.

The Munky

Sorry dude, TP43 is Troy Polamalu...