Ron Jaworski on Reggie Bush- Rookie of the Year

[Assani Fisher]

I think that most of you around here know my general philosophy regarding the NFL and how I feel like stats are a bit overrated since so much goes into them(offensive philosophy, quality of supporting cast, etc.). Rather than blindly follow the stats I try to WATCH as much football as possible and analyze players that way.

But obviously I can't watch every game, and obviously there are a ton of people out there who are better scouts than I. So what I try to do is to find a few people whose opinions I greatly trust. Some examples might include Chris Landry(yahoo sports), the footballguys staff, and I've even recently started to read FO a bit more even though I'm still not completely sold on their philosophies.

Anyway, on TV my favorite analysit has to be Jaws. For one, hes a former QB so he instanly has credentials there. But not just that- hes also very analytical and well spoken, and you can tell that hes usually not biased(unless its the Eagles, but even then he admits it). Perhaps what I like most about him is that so many of his comments being with a phrase like "Well when studying film I found that...". So many analyists on TV today just seem to be arguing without really knowing what they are talking about.

Anyway, on to the point of my post:

I didn't see it myself, but I read on footballguys that this morning on SportsCenter they asked Jaws who his rookie of the year was. He replied that it was easily Reggie Bush because when watching the games you could see how much the game changed when he was on the field. Jaws basically said that even though the numbers don't show it, Bush had the most impact.

Now let me be clear- I'm not necessarily agreeing with him. In fact, if you had asked me yesterday I would've definitely said that Vince Young was the ROY and that MJD was the best RB of the rookies this year. However I greatly respect Jaws, and I usually will give his opinion of game film great respect- many times if I feel one way after watching a game and he feels another, I will instantly begin to re-assess my opinions.

So I just wanted some commentary on this. Would anyone else agree that Reggie Bush was the ROY? And for the record, I've already seen all the stats and I already realize that MJD's stats are far better, so no need to point that out.