This year the NFL Pro Bowl format moved from an AFC v. NFC bout to an old fashioned ‘pick em in the street’ styled event. HOF players (and my two football idols) Jerry Rice and ‘Prime Time’ Sanders were named captains, with Sanders earning the first pick. He picked Andrew Luck, a pick I never saw coming. It represented the first of many surprises in the new format that have me pleasantly expecting the Pro Bowl.
Team Sanders is lead by Luck but bolstered by the speed of Jamaal Charles alongside standout ‘hands’ receivers Dex Bryant and AJ Green. The real strength lives in the secondary where Patrick Peterson and Darelle Revis will be locking down whomever Rice puts out there. Lesean McCoy gives the Rice squad a chance for ball movement, but it has to come from the ground.
Sanders’ D-Line will be ready for that.