I will look into getting a list of the voters as well as contact info. The voting comes down (in my mind) to Ryan, Flacco, C.Johnson, Clady and Eddie Royal. Strong fourth quarters to the season for Slaton, and possibly Stewart or desean could add their name to the list.

To vote rookie of the year, you can take two angles, that don’t necessarily have to compliment eachother: the MVP angle, where a rookie played at a high level and was the most important rookie contributor to any team in the league, or the Elite angle, where a rookie showed mastery of his position more so than any other rookie.

I think the key to convincing the powers that be that Clady is the ORotY is to prove that all the players considered are merely of the elite variety, and that only Clady is BOTH elite and the most important rookie candidate to his team. I don’t think it would be a hard case to make, actually, since Ryan and Johnson are truly the main competition, and Johnson is a changeup back in a committee system, while Ryan is the lesser half of a QB/RB combo with Turner carrying the load.

Only Clady has had the most impact on his teams success, by making our running game respectable despite being down to our fifth RB, and by making his QB a shoe in for the probowl, and worth considering for one of the top QBs in the game in only his third season. On top of that, he is an elite specimen, as Shanny noted, who has been completely professional and who has played at an elite level for a tackle not seen since a certain somebody from Baltimore. He has taken on some of the toughest competitor’s in this years game and has come away unscathed, while his opponents have been completely frustrated. Factor in as well, that the Bronco defense has not been above average, and has spent much of the season below average, and you have an offense that is under even more pressure to perform.

The push for the probowl is only the beginning. I don’t care if a tackle has ever been considered for RotY. I know that Joe Thomas opened some eyes last year, and he received more first place votes for RotY than any tackle ever has. But a player like Adrian Peterson makes it impossible to go against the grain. There is no purple Jesus this year. More than ever the voters will need to THINK about their vote (and we know they are leaning toward Matt Ryan), and when they stop to think about it, that is our opening. Not our opening to complain, or to whine and bitch. It is our opening to make a strong, reasoned case that can only be ignored by appeals to ignorance. If the voters want to be willfully ignorant, that is their problem. Our problem is seeing to it that unwillful ignorance can’t be used as an excuse.