Overall Game MVP: Skins/Bucs

[PennSkinsFan]

We left this out of the original Awards thread, so we will do it now.

This time it will be an actual voting Poll

[jporterweb]

I was tempted to vote for the coaching staff, but the point is no matter what the staff tells them to do, the players have to actually execute it. So I don't think the coaches can ever really be considered MVP of a game itself, because their work is preparation which is not the game itself. So I have to go with Matt Bowen. The fumble he forced plus the pressure he and others applied all game stopped the Bucs O cold.

[SkinsCT]

I wanted to vote for the coaching staff and Bowen as well, but I had to give it to Portis. His run is one of the greatest moments in the short history of FedEx field, and he pounded the ball inside against a strong Tampa defense 29 times, showed that he is everything that we thought he would be and more. He is the reason we were able to control the clock and the field.

[frenchskinsfan]

Protecting to perfection (no sack) and opening holes for big runs, the Oline gets my vote on this first game. I'd never think it would happen so fast.

[ShaggySkins]

The defense carried the team and Matt Bowen was the best player on the defense. So he's going to get my vote.

[PennSkinsFan]

I went with the dominating performance of Matt Bowen, especially because soem were actually picking Iffy or wanted Iffy to start over Bowen.

[openallnight]

i would've voted dLine but that wasn't an option. the biggest unknown for me coming into this game was could the dline be competitive and hold the bucs rushing to within limits. they not only achieved that, they completely shut it down!
but, since that wasn't an option i went with coaching staff. the last 5 1/2 min. was a preview of things to come and a demonstration of why we're better off with this staff than any in the last 12 years. anyone of the previous coaches, to use the words of norv turner "would have found a way to lose" this game. We controlled the clock only giving the bucs 20 sec. to work with, we scored a fg to cushion our lead so they couldn't possibly tie it w/ a fg, we squibbed kick to mitigate the chance of a long return and, last but certainly not least we blitzed both lb on the last play rather than dropping into the dreaded prevent [a win] D That my friends is a microcosm of the great game day coaching we've been missing! Thank God Gibbs is back!!!

[Carmelo]

I've gotta go with matt. If it weren't for his turnovers and great play who knows which way the game would have gone. He gave me something to scream about.

[Spence]

As I wrote in my Quick Hitters column, it's Matt Bowen.

[AGibbsGirl]

Matty B for me, not because I'm his #1 fan, but because he played a great game.

[IndianBaller27]

Clinton Portis... He was lookin like Barry Sanders.... With some help from the Dirtbags.

[tommahawk]

Dirtbags....no sacks were so great to not see after last year. And the running game was going well.

[RedSkinBrit]

Having just watched the game again,Matt Bowen deserves it for a gutsy performance.More of the same please Matt!

[kempcolts]

Hard choices because it was such a good team effort. Matt Bowen gets my vote 7 tackles, 2 sacks, a turnover, he was all over the field even on special teams. Close runnerups was Chris Samuals work on Simone Rice and of course Clinton Portis. Honorable mention Coach Greg Williams Defensive game plan.

[NamVet4]

Matt Bowen . . . His perfromance was the most valuable - it directly contributed to the game being won by our Beloved Team.