Welcome to the terrible take a mini podcast telling Steelers Nation what's on our mind.

I'm Josh Carney.

The award season's circus in the NFL is simply getting out of hand.

Much like baseball has gone, so too has the game of football at the highest level,

focusing more on advanced metrics and other deep dive stats,

rather than weighing the actual production that the players seek to achieve week after week.

You know, the numbers that will actually be weighed when it comes to receiving the highest honor in the NFL,

making it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

When it comes to voting for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, players are measured on their standard

counting stats, along with Pro Bowl bulls and all pro accolades.

Yet when it comes to the in-season awards in this new age of football,

the focus somehow finds itself on advanced metrics.

Somehow that's going to cost T.J. Watt, a potential first team all pro accolade,

and another defensive player of the year award, all because his past rush win rate,

double team rate, and any other metric that wants to be used doesn't line up with other players

that are flashier, like a Miles Garrett.

Yet Watt has everything that actually matters in the game of football.

He led the NFL in sacks for a third time,

becoming the first player in NFL history to accomplish that.

He also outproduced every other pass-rusher in a number of other defensive statistics.

Somehow though, he's being punished for not having the eye-opening sexy advanced metrics numbers.

What a joke.

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