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Rainer Sabin / Reporter
As the Cowboys collapsed this season, a nation watched it unfold. Five times this year, they played in an exclusive time slot on national television. They lost each game. Stumbling in the spotlight proved costly for the team and its players - none of whom received the most votes at their positions when the results from the Pro Bowl fan ballot were released Wednesday.
Only one Cowboys player, DeMarcus Ware, was a runner-up. With 294,397 votes, Ware finished a distant second to Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews, who received 466,501 votes. Punter Mat McBriar and injured kick returner Dez Bryant each garnered the third-most votes at their positions while Jason Witten finished fourth among NFC tight ends. Atlanta's Tony Gonzalez, Washington's Chris Cooley, and San Francisco's Vernon Davis each fared better than Witten.
Despite the results, the Cowboys may still have some representatives in Honolulu, the site of the game that will be held Jan. 30, 2011. The fan vote accounts for only a third of the selection process.
Ballots cast by players and coaches, who will submit them Wednesday and Thursday, constitute the rest. Only three seasons ago, 13 Cowboys players were invited to the Pro Bowl. In their franchise history, the Cowboys have been excluded from the Pro Bowl twice. That happened in 1986 and 1989.
As the Cowboys collapsed this season, a nation watched it unfold. Five times this year, they played in an exclusive time slot on national television. They lost each game. Stumbling in the spotlight proved costly for the team and its players - none of whom received the most votes at their positions when the results from the Pro Bowl fan ballot were released Wednesday.
Only one Cowboys player, DeMarcus Ware, was a runner-up. With 294,397 votes, Ware finished a distant second to Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews, who received 466,501 votes. Punter Mat McBriar and injured kick returner Dez Bryant each garnered the third-most votes at their positions while Jason Witten finished fourth among NFC tight ends. Atlanta's Tony Gonzalez, Washington's Chris Cooley, and San Francisco's Vernon Davis each fared better than Witten.
Despite the results, the Cowboys may still have some representatives in Honolulu, the site of the game that will be held Jan. 30, 2011. The fan vote accounts for only a third of the selection process.
Ballots cast by players and coaches, who will submit them Wednesday and Thursday, constitute the rest. Only three seasons ago, 13 Cowboys players were invited to the Pro Bowl. In their franchise history, the Cowboys have been excluded from the Pro Bowl twice. That happened in 1986 and 1989.
. What's even funnier is that if you go to these Redskins' messageboards, almost to a man they propose trading Cooley away for draft pick(s). But let me get this straight... Among TEs, Witten leads not only just the NFC, but the entire NFL in receptions and in yards, and is second to Gates in TDs, which means he leads the NFC in TDs as well---more than twice the # of TDs than Cooley, but somehow he doesn't make the Pro Bowl. Possibly on his way to a third 1,000 yard season.
