Brunell not considered as comeback player of the year

[skinsfanthru&thru]

There are plently of people, even some in the media, who are very impressed with Brunnel actually still being in the league much less performing at the level he has performed up to this point, but Bruschi's situation this past year is an extremely rare case. The man had a stroke. he didn't have a bad year where he looked absolutely pathetic, but instead he came back from something that kills thousands of people a year. and to anyone saying no one thought he was done obviously didn't pay attention to the coverage of his situation because there were a lot of people who thought, some even hoped, he'd quit so as not to further the extent of his injury. He might not have had a huge statistical year, but the improvement in his teammates play after his return is impossible to dispute (the pats d held teams in a 4 game span to a total of 100 some rushing yards). while I love it when any skins player has a chance to win a worthy award, Bruschi deserves it over Brunnel hands down in my book.
Smith did overcome a serious injury but it wasn't anything career threatening and I know I wasn't even considering him for the award despite his incredible year. People in the media have been sucking up to Smith since midway through the season. I thought it was funny as crap when fox had a special about smith with howie long and in the game that day he got ejected for touching and yelling at a referee, lol.

[sportscurmudgeon]

THE Comeback Player of the Year for next year (2006) has to be Maurice Clarett because he will have to come back to court to face the charges against him or else he'll forfeit his bail and have bounty hunters after his sorry ass.