Our unit is certainly a fantastic, hard hitting defense but Marlin and Kelvin aren't playmakers like Champ Bailey and Asante Samuel.  They aren't as good in pass coverage, and I think we saw that against the Jags, as their recievers beat our corners with a whole lot of out and curl routes I feel that our strength is playing as a cohesive unit.  Brackett and Mathis certainly should have been selected but a small media market will forever curse them with obscurity.

~Jason Taylor on the Pro Bowl is a disgrace. His team sucks, and he is not as good a DE as Mathis~

Are you kidding me?  Brad, take off those Colts-colored glasses for a second, ok buddy?  Yes, the Dolphins suck.  Though I don't know how good the Colts would be with their starting QB and RB out for the season.  With their starting MLB out for the year.  With their starting OLB missing 5 games.  And with their top 4 safeties all injured for the year, meaning you have to play safeties #5 and 6.  But that's not the point.

Saying Jason Taylor is not as good a DE as Robert Mathis is a total and complete joke.

Just look at the stats:

Taylor: 47 tackles (40 solo), 10 sacks, 4 forced fumbles, 4 passes defensed, a blocked field goal, and an interception returned for a touchdown

Mathis: 32 tackles (26 solo), 7 sacks, 4 forced fumbles, and that's it

And let's not forget Taylor is the team's best defensive player.  Opposing offenses actually have to gameplan around Taylor to minimize his affect on the game.  And he still puts up amazing numbers.

Meanwhile, Mathis, for 9 games, wasn't even the best DE on the team.  Teams game planned around containing Freeney, meaning Mathis should have had much better numbers.  But he didn't.

Bottom line:  You'll be happy if Mathis ever becomes half as great as Jason Taylor already is and continues to be.

ya know, i honestly thought selections were pretty good given the circumstances.
manning will always get the nod.
reggie got it last year and certainly gets it this year.
addai was a good surprise pick.  a lot of people over on sportline are screaming that fred taylor should have gone over him, but something about the 60 more points addai has scored gives me the confidence.
i don't think i've ever seen jeff saturday make a snapping mistake, or at least, a notable one.
everybody has been all over bob sanders all season, so i don't even need to touch it.
i do in my heart wish gary brackett would have made it, but the others guys do have better overall stats, and are from bigger markets.
i also think there would have been a case for antoine bethea and kelvin hayden.
but yeah, regardless of who i would have hoped to be there, the afc team looks freakin killer and that can't be denied.

IMO only Brackett got snubbed from the Colts. I'd have said Bethea should have gone but it seems they only want 3 safeties and with Reed getting the top votes you can't really argue that. Mathis is having a good year but how is it any better than the guys who made it? The real snub of course is Mario Williams. How he didn't make it over Taylor is beyond me...oh wait, the coaches who pick the reserves don't have a clue and go by name. I feel Mario should have been the reserve, then Taylor.

Ugoh could have got a spot but the missed games hurt him and of course the fact he is a rookie.

The Cowboys having 11 players amuses me but hey, it's what anyone should expect since they are big market.

The Pro Bowl is silly anyway so big deal.

Why does Taylor deserve the nod over Willie Parker? Not knocking Taylor, he's having a great season and it's ridiculous he hasn't been selected once in his illustrious career, but why should the NFL's leading rusher get bumped in favor of Taylor?

I'd say Addai deserves to be bumped before Parker. Sounds homerific, but c'mon, how are you going to justify bumping the league's leading rusher?