AP 2010 NFL Defensive Player of the Year... No Love for Suh.

I watched NFL net last night when they announced the award I don’t recall seeing Suh or Wake mentioned.

it’s his second season.

He had better seasons than Peppers, Urlacher, Haloti Ngata, and Cameron Wake. And it boils my blood that he didn’t enter into consideration.

However, he was also in a learning year. He was slightly ineffectual against the run as he learned his position in the beginning of the year, and that’s a distinction guys like Troy Polamalu (you know, the guy that very well could go down as #1 of his positional ranking, all time, if he retired today?) and Clay Matthews (who’s been doing this for a year longer, which makes a difference) don’t have.

Both of their teams made the playoffs — with distinctly strong defenses overall, to boot.

I’m a huge, huge Suh fan. I scour the internet for Ndamukong Suh news daily (no kidding), I watch every interview (with pants on), I look at his highlights (without), and I’m totally in love with the bro (no homo.)

But come on. He’s not the DPOY.

But he deserves to be in the discussion. That’s definitely the biggest snub in this whole debate, not Clay Matthews losing to Troy by some ridiculously slim margin.

Suh gets rob’d and winning the DROY doesn’t make up for it either.

Clay really was a beast this year. He started out the year on fire, and then the players around him started dropping like flies and he injured his shin and slowed down a bit. But he’s been healthy recently and you’ve seen what he’s done in the playoffs.

The Packers don’t really have all that many pass-rushers, and most of the ones they did have ended up on IR. Nick Barnett and Brad Jones both missed most of the year, so Clay ended up having an UDFA in Zombo anda street FA in Walden starting across from him. Cullen Jenkins was in and out of the line-up all year. Clay was the one guy every team focused on shutting down this year, mostly because the defense didn’t have very many weapons beside him.

In the same way Charles Woodson made the defense great last year, Clay Matthews was the centerpiece of one of the best defenses in the league this year, in only his second season.

Suh definitely deserved to be mentioned at least. He was dominant as a rookie. I think the Lion’s poor defense and the team’s poor record in general hurt his case a lot.

Then again I may be blinded with my patriot hatred.

his score would be 126 so under theres but he also isnt in a position to get turnovers

thats not how it works but I was jut saying maybe that he got over looked because he gets fined and hes the poster child for illegal hits and they dont want him to be the D player of the year. But dont you think having the other DPOY on your team makes your job a little easier?

He just doesn’t deserve to have won. That’s what I and Joshsun are saying.

In the brain, not physically. He doesn’t possess the experience to really blow up an NFL running play with any regularity yet.

Teams identified his tenacity and drive to slaughter the QB and used it against him in the running game. Often using a pulling guard/tackle to “blindside” him out of the play.

Let me be clear, I would not trade him for 99% of the league. He is a monster and will only get better but he was clearly weak against the run early in the season and it was a result of inexperience and his single minded desire to find the QB in the backfield.

Like I said before, he learned (watching game film I am sure) what teams where doing against him and how the professional game is far more complex than the college game. The kid is an intelligent cat. He will learn and get better allowing him be more dominate in both the run stopping and pass rushing game at the same time.