We already hand out a weekly “Man on Fire” award, but watching Mike Sellers this Sunday has us wondering if we should be handing out one more piece of hardware each week. For every week of the season, there’s always that one player that takes the game to the next level. He’s the one guy that plays like a dump truck, running over anything and everything in his way. He’s also the guy that pile drives running backs into the turf and knocks quarterbacks out of games. This award, named after the incredibly bad-ass fullback of the Washington Redskins, honors that player. This may be an on-going honor given out on a weekly basis, or we might retire it and go out on a high note with Sellers being the first, best, and last award recipient.
This week’s winner: Mike Sellers.
Considering this is the inaugural issue, that probably should have been kind of obvious, but Mike Sellers definitely stepped it up a notch against the Lions this week. Sellers, who had 5 carries for 24 yards and a touchdown to go with 3 catches for 36 yards and another, put up his best numbers since the San Fran game in ’05 (two catches for two touchdowns, in case you were wondering). None of that got him an award in his name, though. The thing that really got him this prestigious honor was on YouTube just minutes after the game:
Kenoy Kennedy trying to tackle Caveman (credit for that name goes to Doc Walker) Sellers was like watching a small child run in front of a rhino.
Kennedy got absolutely destroyed, and he’s not the first; the Eagle’s Brian Dawkins has gotten de-cleated more than once by Mike. Ultimately, though, even though the hits got him this column, Sellers truly did play a huge role in the Redskins victory this week. In addition to his two touchdowns, Sellers paved running lanes for Clinton Portis and Ladell Betts and gave the offense the short-yardage bull that it desperately needed. Sellers is, and really has been, what the Redskins thought they were getting in T.J. Duckett last year, and he needs to see the ball a lot more in the weeks to come and beyond. For all of those reasons, Mike Sellers is the winner and namesake of the first Mike Sellers award.
What a beast!
That play got us all out of our seats.
Can anybody verify that the hit was on Jacked up last night? I had a hockey game….
It should be on Jacked Up tonight (if they still do that segment).
They had better still do that segment. It was the best part of that show.
Sellers is such a beast. He’s really become a huge part of this team.
Funny thing is, that might not have even been the hardest hit of the game. I think the pounding ST laid out on the James Thrash punt return was the top jacked up play of the week.
Sellers = JUGGERNAUT!!
I’m the JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!
Wasn’t the tackle that Kennedy made after he got knocked out tripping? shouldn’t there have been a penalty for that?