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New Orleans Saints' Special Teams Player Grades: Year in Review

My special teams MVP for the first half of the season, based on having the highest GPA, was Thomas Morstead. After 16 games, Morstead still has the highest GPA, so he gets my special teams MVP for the season. Below are the final GPA's for the season, including the number of games graded. Keep in mind, that doesn't mean number of games played, it's just the number of games I graded based on extended action.

Here are the GPA's, highest to lowest:

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Thomas Morstead: 3.00 (16 games)

Courtney Roby: 2.80 (15 games)

Garrett Hartley: 2.67 (5 games)

John Carney: 2.61 (11 games)

 

Below are the Special Teams Player of the Game Awards I handed out with the Player Grades over the course of the season:

special teams:

Thomas Morstead 6

Courtney Roby 5

Malcolm Jenkins 2

Robert Meachem 1

John Carney 1

Garrett Hartley 1

Poll
Who Is Your Saints' Special Teams MVP for the Season?
John Carney
14 votes
Garrett Hartley
9 votes
Thomas Morstead
260 votes
Courtney Roby
71 votes

354 votes | Poll has closed

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He should have gotten the Pro Bowl nod.........

DON'T STOP 'TIL WE REACH THE TOP!!!!!!!!
Another SAINTS fan in Panther country!
GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!
COPIED from another CSC member: "WHO DAT! Yeah, I said it, too!!!!!!

by SAINTSfaninNC on Jan 10, 2010 7:31 AM CST reply actions  

Morstead deserves it

He deserves it especially from us, after all the sh— he caught here after he was drafted. And that thing about his cat. That was just wrong.

BURN THE BLACK PANTS!!!

by MtnExile on Jan 10, 2010 9:36 AM CST reply actions  

that's a little family issue we don't talk about

boom

"...they're probably going to get rid of my ass..." -#94

by stujo4 on Jan 10, 2010 10:55 AM CST up reply actions  

Actually, Stujo4...

I heard Tommy was going down to the adoption center to save a few cats in celebration of this accolade… (winks and elbows). He’ll dress up in his Thundercats outfit at a party in his honor later tonight.

"Gowin on fourth and 14 will punt it away. He hangs it very high, angling it for the near sideline...HAKIM DROPS THE BALL!!! HAKIM DROPS THE BALL!! Brian Milne might've fallen on it at the ten yard line! It's the New Orleans Saints' football! Brian Milne, the most unlikely hero of them all, falls on the fumble, the muff by Hakim! There is a God after all!" -- Jim Henderson

by hakimdropstheball on Jan 10, 2010 11:38 AM CST up reply actions  

Snubbed

Definitely Pro Bowl worthy.
arguably our best draft choice of 2009

In Breesus' name we play

by Breesus Christ Superstar on Jan 10, 2010 9:52 AM CST reply actions  

Wow!

Carney looks just like Mr. Clean in that pic.


I didn’t realize Carney was that muscular. The dude is in pretty good shape.

"I said this early on that this was a good football team, they just maybe had to have a stick put in certain parts of their body to play a little harder in certain places to where we’re able to take interceptions and score touchdowns."--Gregg Williams

by satchmo26 on Jan 10, 2010 10:17 AM CST reply actions   1 recs

No Kidding - Yeah, I'm voting for him as BUFF STUD of the Year for the Saints

I’ve not seen many kickers with a physique like that.

"In the end, the bread was in the pudding." -- Bobby McCray

I DON'T MIND MAKING HISTORY

by HansDat on Jan 10, 2010 10:30 AM CST up reply actions  

Man...

… you made me choke on my coffee…. LMAO!!

You gotta go there to come back

by bondcrash on Jan 10, 2010 10:30 AM CST up reply actions  

I bet Carney could wipe the floor with Mr. Clean and make him eat that earring...

"In the end, the bread was in the pudding." -- Bobby McCray

I DON'T MIND MAKING HISTORY

by HansDat on Jan 10, 2010 10:31 AM CST up reply actions  

Kind of a cross between Mr. Clean and a young Bruce Willis?

Fat, dumb, and happy. Hell, two out of three ain't bad!

I Want To Die In My Sleep Like My Grandpa – Not Screaming and Yelling Like His Passengers.

by Just 'Nother Day on Jan 12, 2010 1:22 AM CST up reply actions  

on crank

"if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth" Bob Marley

by sernycrusher on Jan 12, 2010 2:10 PM CST up reply actions  

For those of you who voted for Morestead.

Is he a great punter? YES! Does he deserve the ST MVP? Well…

He does kick well. Very well. Yeah, he gave us great field position many times. But,…

… that’s all he does.

Courtney Roby, on the other hand, has been a beast on both kickoff returns and coverages. He played both ends of the field and was instrumental in giving us, many times, great field position on kick returns AND kick coverage. He should be the MVP because he has done so much and yet recieved so little notoriety for it. He deserves something and ST MVP should be his award.

The only thing worse than losing is not winning.

by Tigernut on Jan 10, 2010 11:08 AM CST reply actions  

oooo good point

without roby and usama and jenkins smothering, some of those punts go into the end zone…

"In the end, the bread was in the pudding." -- Bobby McCray

I DON'T MIND MAKING HISTORY

by HansDat on Jan 10, 2010 11:25 AM CST up reply actions  

those guys did awesome but,

If Jonathan Casillas would have been the gunner from day one i think we would have been better off (opinion). they put him there during the last panthers game. the first go round they only put one jammer on him and he pushed him out of the way and downed the ball inside the ten yard line, second time they put two jammers on him, he parted them like the red sea and was the first one down the field. i cant remember if he missed the tackle or if the guy called for a fair catch. just throwing that out there. i, like everyone else should have, voted for Carney.

by aPorterdisciple on Jan 14, 2010 3:08 PM CST up reply actions  

A very good argument.

I wish I had been able to read it before I voted (or thought of it myself).

How much Plague and Pestilence can one city endure?

by PilneyPark on Jan 10, 2010 1:38 PM CST up reply actions  

GOOD POST

I thought he; Morstead, was a bright spot all season long. Think about the poor Raid ers that position has been one of their few. It’s important unless you don’t have it to begin with.

OldFartFan

by OldFartFan on Jan 10, 2010 1:03 PM CST reply actions  

Write-in Vote:

Malcolm Jenkins …

The first half of the year he was AWESOME on ST.

He was taken out of the role when the other CB’s got hurt, but MAN!

Every punt I waiting for #27 to do something amazing.

Saints fan in DFW. Saints go all the way... I BELIEVE!

by Dan Kelly on Jan 10, 2010 2:40 PM CST reply actions  

Yea

But his punting skills had to be the difference.

I'll be your huckleberry- Doc Holliday to Ringo

by KilnBill on Jan 10, 2010 2:50 PM CST reply actions  

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