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When You’re the Best Team in Football, You’re Going to Have Pro Bowl Snubs
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The Eagles are sending eight players to the Pro Bowl:
Call 'em out, Coach🗣#FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/YRmprH5yq9
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) December 22, 2022
Pro Bowl: A.J. Brown, Haason Reddick, Darius Slay, Jalen Hurts, Lane Johnson, Jason Kelce, Miles Sanders, Landon Dickerson
Alternates: Rick Lovato, Isaac Seumalo, Javon Hargrave (check the reaction in the video), James Bradberry, Brandon Graham, Fletcher Cox, Jordan Mailata, Josh Sweat, DeVonta Smith
Hargrave probably deserved it. He has a career-high 10 sacks and nine tackles for loss and has hit the QB 14 times. Throw in a forced fumble and two recoveries. James Bradberry is also worthy. He’s been just as good as Darius Slay this year on the other side of the defense.
The goofy thing is that this D is insanely good and only got two guys into the Pro Bowl. CJGJ probably would have made it had he not suffered that injury a few weeks ago. T.J. Edwards is having a career year as well.
Bottom line, however, is that when you’re 13-1, half the team is playing at a Pro Bowl level. You could fill up 50% of the roster with Eagles, so how many players from one team is too many? I don’t know, but there seems to be national consensus that Hargrave definitely got screwed here.
Maybe he comes out on Saturday night angry and flattens Dak Prescott into the turf.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com