When you look at a team, and their offensive line, when they are playing well, they are looked at like a cohesive unit – it is difficult to pick out the play of any one individual position – unless they have one guy who is a dominant force.
When a team has a bad offensive line, it is easy to pick out each player, and point out the shortcomings. When Jason Peters returned to the lineup in Week 2, after his temper tantrum holdout was over (thats what I think holdouts are, nothing more than children throwing a temper tantrum because they are not getting what they want), he allowed six sacks through the first four weeks, and has been flagged a number of times throughout the season for rookie mistakes. This is definitely not the play of a pro-bowler, and no player could expect to make the pro bowl roster the first time around with those type of statistics.
I could see Peters being deserving of a 2009 Pro Bowl visit if he showed up for camp, and played well for 16 games, regardless of his teams inability to function. His selection to the ’09 squad could mean a number of things:
1 – the selection process is corrupt, and is a mere tool of those in power to drive up salaries to drive up ticket prices, to drive up revenues, to drive up the salary cap – to make the smaller market teams less competitive and keep the money players in the big market teams.
2 – the pro bowl selection is part of the good old boy network.
3 – the quality level of left tackles in the AFC could be poor enough that Peters was the recognizable name
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