(I know, Bill. I'm shocked, too.)

Last year, the Patriots had an amazing eight players on the Pro Bowl team. Pretty much unheard of in contemporary football.

This year, however, only two New Englanders - Wes Welker and Stephen Gostkowski - will be donning the AFC's colors.

The Jets, on the other hand, are sending a league-high seven (SEVEN!) players. Uhhh, ex-squeeze me? (Sorry for the cheap Wayne's World reference. It seemed to work there, but I apologize nonetheless.)

Hard to argue against the fact that the Pats really only deserve to have two or three representatives on the team. They're hanging right in there with some extremely stiff competition in the East this year, but without Brady at the helm and a consistent running game to rely on, everyone's numbers are down and the line looks a lot more vulnerable. You could make a case that guys like Moss, one or two guys on the D-line, and maaaaaybe Cassel deserved more consideration than they got, but whatever. They just haven't been dominant this year, so I'm cool with a pair.

But I cannot and will not agree with the J-E-T-S sending seven players.

Favre doesn't deserve to be there. Period. That's right, I said it. As ESPN's Tim Graham points out, he made it on reputation alone. There are at least five AFC quarterbacks that should be there ahead of him (Matt Cassel among them, perhaps...), his 15th-best passer rating and his meager +4 TD to INT (21 TDs and an NFL-leading 17 INTs) ratio. How about Philip Rivers, whom I absolutely despise, but who also is leading the league with a 101.4 passer rating? Dude's got seven more TD passes, six less INTs, and almost 500 more yards than the Ancient One. What the hell?

The selection of Ronnie Brown (MIA) boggles my mind, as well. How do you pick him over possible Rookie of the Year Steve Slaton? Without that one game against the Pats where the Wildcat offense actually worked, his numbers would be entirely mediocre. Unbelievable.