How deciding the Pro Bowl SHOULD be...

I'm ready for my downvotes so here goes. This 'Jones should have made the Pro Bowl' stuff is getting a bit circle jerky to me. Yeah he's good, all dolphin fans know this, many fans and coaches around the nfl know this. Not every great player makes the pro bowl. I love Jones but I have absolutely zero problem with him making it. The secondary sucks, the defense sucks, the team has a suck record. So he deserves to be in the pro bowl because he put ups good numbers? To me the first thing is you gotta be a winner, the panthers had a ton of pro bowls, the pats usually do as well as teams like the packers or steelers. Why? Because those teams are winning teams and thus 'on the map', Miami is none of those things sadly, and talented guys like Jones feel the impact here.

If Jones is on a winning team he is a pro bowler, its just that we suck so much that its hard for other people around the nfl to say 'hey that guy down in miami is really lighting it up even though the team is trash'. We dont deserve to have guys make it. Pouncey makes it just because he is a big name guy and most people cant name many O linemen.

I'm pretty sure nfl all star voting is split in thirds between fans, coaches, and players right? I think thats a pretty fair pool of people to pull votes from, so if he didnt get in he didnt get in. It cant just be about this guy had good numbers, Tannehill had really solid numbers last year but he isnt a pro bowl qb, yet at least.

When Lebron was on the heat Chris Bosh was still always an all star even though he was putting up pretty pedestrian numbers. There were guys getting better numbers than him, but he was playing for a winning team also which carries weight. Thats the same reason guys like Kam Chancellor make it without having amazing seasons.

tl;dr: Miami sucks as a team and doesnt deserve to have any pro bowlers.

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