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I don't see the big deal, those lb's were better then Landon Johnson all season.

Madieu didn't deserve it either those Safeties had oustanding seasons.

Madieu will become known soon enough, he's a young Ed Reed, he just needs to study film as much as Ed and the sky is the limit.

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I don't see the big deal, those lb's were better then Landon Johnson all season.

Madieu didn't deserve it either those Safeties had oustanding seasons.

Madieu will become known soon enough, he's a young Ed Reed, he just needs to study film as much as Ed and the sky is the limit.

For what it's worth, I think Madieu had better stats than the Jet's S who was named to their team. Course, he does playin NY so he MUST be better.

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Defensive Rookie of the Year voting

Player, team  Votes 

Jonathan Vilma, NY Jets  21 

Dunta Robinson, Houston  12 

D.J. Williams, Denver  7 

Sean Taylor, Washington  3 

Jared Allen, Kansas City  2 

Karlos Dansby, Arizona  1 

Tommie Harris, Chicago  1 

Michael Boulware, Seattle  1

No Madieu?

I understand he didn't win it, but not even getting a vote? WTF?

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Robinson should have gotten it easy, over the 2nd half of the season, he was the best CB in football. He should have been in the pro bowl....

2 things hurt Madieu for awards like this...

1. He was not a full time starter the whole year.

2. He did not have a defined position so voters saw him a a tweener...

I'm not saying it's right, but that's just the way it went down.

His due will come soon enough though. :player:

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I don't see the big deal, those lb's were better then Landon Johnson all season.

Madieu didn't deserve it either those Safeties had oustanding seasons.

Madieu will become known soon enough, he's a young Ed Reed, he just needs to study film as much as Ed and the sky is the limit.

For what it's worth, I think Madieu had better stats than the Jet's S who was named to their team. Course, he does playin NY so he MUST be better.

Now now now, don't be bitter. You guys of all people should remember who that Jets safety is. He ended your opening game. As for Madieu, he obviously showed he can play and finished strong but Coleman was good all year long. Madieu, if I'm not mistaken, had problems early in the year.

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Madieu didn't deserve it either those Safeties had oustanding seasons.

from espn.com's all-rookie team:

FS Erik Coleman 88 tackles, 2 sacks, 4 interceptions, 12 passes defensed

compare that to our DROY:

FS Madieu Williams 91 tackles, 2 sacks, 3 interceptions (1 for a touchdown), 11 passes defensed

It is a tough comparison. Madieu will be a beast and should start for us for years to come.

WHO DEY!

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Yeah but M. Williams had better stats then just about every rookie safety. He had more tackles then all of them (i think) and had just one less interception.. Plus he started at both safety postion. CB and nickle back..... so he should have gotten more credit then he did

He had 3 more tackles and one less int. I wouldn't really call that better. Don't get me wrong, Madieu is a good player and its pretty even to be honest. Who knows, he may turn out to be the better player. But I wanted to make it clear: Its not a NY thing, Erik Coleman deserved to be on that team.

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I didn't watch Coleman play as much as Madieu, but I've got to add that stat based debates usually leave me cold and this one is no exception.

Madieu made enough plays to show what he was capable of in the future, but IMHO his tackle numbers are grossly inflated due to being picked on by almost every QB the Bengals faced. Granted, he adapted on the fly and after learning to better compete he made several of those QB's and WR's pay. Very cool. Gives a long suffering Bengal fan plenty of hope for better days.

But c'mon, opposing teams never really stopped looking William's way whenever possible. Plus, Madieu got caught looking into the backfield way too much for my liking, and that habit never lessened as the season progressed. He's got plenty of room to improve. Granted, it's more than possible that had I seen more Jet games I'd argue that all of these things are true of Coleman as well. After all, with the exception of a single play Palmer played Coleman for a chump, right? :blink:

Regardless, I think any exceptional appraisal of Madieu William's rookie season is largely due to the improvement he showed as the season progressed and the playmaking ability he flashed, and not the level of production hinted at by numbers on a stat page.

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Its not a NY thing, Erik Coleman deserved to be on that team.

It's not a Cincinnati thing, Madieu Williams deserved to be on that team.

Besides, with stats that close, it's a coin flip to pick one. And since this is just something from ESPN, I believe that it just came down to the fact that the people who made the decision had seen more of Coleman mainly because New York is a large market and even though the Bengals are coming out of the decade long hibernation, people outside the local market (analysts included) are more apt to tune into Jets games rather than Bengals games. Had Madieu played for the Jets and Coleman for the Bengals, I wonder how that might have changed the final outcome, given the same stats?

Nevertheless, none of this really matters. Winning is what matters.

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