Phil Dawson selected to Pro Bowl (this is worth a thread).

[bdubya]

The Pro Bowl teams were announced and Cleveland will be represented by Phil Dawson.

With the Browns since their return in 1999, it is the first time that Dawson has been chosen to the Pro Bowl squad.

An undrafted free agent out of Texas, nobody deserves this honor more in the NFL - and in Cleveland - than Mr. Dawson.

Talk about hard work paying off in the long run.

He'll be a free agent again, unless we franchise him for a 4th straight offseason, and I want to see Phil finish his career in Cleveland.

I would buy and wear a Dawson 4 jersey to games if I knew he was going to end his career as a Brown. He is the most important in-house FA player we need to retain.

Congrats to Phil on a long overdue honor.

It's hard enough to think of being with this team since 1999, but he's clearly been the bright spot for the franchise. Sad, but true.

[dazed&confused]

:aaaaa26 :aaaaa26 :aaaaa26 :aaaaa59 :aaaaa59 :aaaaa59 :aaaaa47

[mustang_lvr]

good pick

[C-Bolt]

And unless they pay him a QB salary this will be the last time we see him as a Brown, how sad

[farmer]

Hard work on the DLINE is rewarded. Maybe the new owner can do something to make him a Brown for life.

[The Enforcer]

The Pro Bowl teams were announced and Cleveland will be represented by Phil Dawson.

With the Browns since their return in 1999, it is the first time that Dawson has been chosen to the Pro Bowl squad.

An undrafted free agent out of Texas, nobody deserves this honor more in the NFL - and in Cleveland - than Mr. Dawson.

Talk about hard work paying off in the long run.

He'll be a free agent again, unless we franchise him for a 4th straight offseason, and I want to see Phil finish his career in Cleveland.

I would buy and wear a Dawson 4 jersey to games if I knew he was going to end his career as a Brown. He is the most important in-house FA player we need to retain.

Congrats to Phil on a long overdue honor.

It's hard enough to think of being with this team since 1999, but he's clearly been the bright spot for the franchise. Sad, but true.

Agree 100% with everthing You said

[bdubya]

An insert from a Terry Pluto story on cleveland.com entitled: Keep Phil Dawson, or kick yourself later

http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/blog/ind ... yours.html

The one field goal he missed this season was deflected, as the Browns had a blocking breakdown.

Last season, the stats show Dawson was 24-of-29 on field goals. He had only one true miss; the others were either blocked or botched when long snapper Ryan Pontbriand lost his confidence.

Dawson has an 84.2 percent career conversion rate on field goals, tops in NFL history among kickers with at least 300 field goals.

In the past two years, he has kicked 13 field goals from at least 50 yards, tied with Janikowski for best in the NFL. Dawson is 13-of-14 on those long-distance boots.

There are lots of other numbers testifying to what Browns fans already know -- it makes little sense to allow Dawson to leave. That's especially true because Dawson wants to stay; he has said as much publicly and privately.

This has been a gratifying season as Dawson not only made his first Pro Bowl, but was voted the team's MVP by the local chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association.

If Dawson re-signs with the Browns, he is likely to pass Lou Groza and become the team's all-time leading scorer. Groza kicked for the Browns until he was 43, and he led the NFL in field-goal percentage at age 39.

[mustang_lvr]

picked to go to the pro bowl and misses his first fg attempt in first game afterwards

[C-Bolt]

Then he promptly kicks a 51 yarder right down the middle