{"id":55056,"date":"2018-12-18T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=55056"},"modified":"2018-12-18T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:43:15","slug":"new-england-patriots-tom-brady-stephon-gilmore-earn-pro-bowl-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/12\/18\/new-england-patriots-tom-brady-stephon-gilmore-earn-pro-bowl-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots Tom Brady, Stephon Gilmore Earn Pro Bowl Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two key members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a> just earned one of football\u2019s highest\u00a0honors. Quarterback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BradTo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Brady<\/a><\/strong> and cornerback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GilmSt00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephon Gilmore<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are going to the Pro Bowl, per <em>The Athletic\u2019s <\/em><strong>Jeff Howe<\/strong>. This is old news for Brady, who earns the honor for the 14th time in his storied career. For Gilmore, this marks just his second trip to the Pro Bowl\u00a0and his first as a member of the Patriots.<\/p>\n<h1>Tom Brady, Stephon Gilmore Earn Pro Bowl Nominations<\/h1>\n<p>Making the Pro Bowl is nothing new for quarterback\u00a0Tom Brady. Brady has made the Pro Bowl 14 times in his 19-year career, including every season in the past decade. The last time Brady didn\u2019t earn a trip to the Pro Bowl was back in 2008 when he missed the entirety of the season with a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>Brady\u2019s in the midst of a relative down year, completing 65.9% of his passes for 3,979 yards, 24 touchdowns, and nine interceptions through 14 games. However, despite his relatively subpar numbers, the 41-year quarterback currently ranks third among AFC quarterbacks in passer rating.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmore, meanwhile, is having perhaps the best season of his career. The second-year Patriot picked up where he left off in 2017, playing dominant, lockdown coverage week in and week out. So far on the season, the seven-year NFL veteran has defended 18 passes while recording two interceptions and 77 tackles. Pro Football Focus is so enamored with Gilmore\u2019s play that they currently have him ranked as the number one cornerback in the entire NFL.<\/p>\n<p>While this isn\u2019t the most talent-packed team in recent memory, it is a bit of a surprise that right guard <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MasoSh01.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaq Mason<\/a><\/strong> didn\u2019t earn a nomination. The fourth-year guard is one of the best all-around players in football. Stats don\u2019t really do justice for an offensive lineman, but the tape shows Mason is a dominant force in both the pass and the run game. Pro Football Focus currently ranks Mason as the second-best guard in the NFL, so this definitely counts as a snub.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"FCHDLgDLSGNVmoWs6EgXag\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1080327684\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'FCHDLgDLSGNVmoWs6EgXag',sig:'I99BTJ8V-or4_LHL4zbj50gp4p7O_hHsr1c7U8RiXzw=',w:'594px',h:'402px',items:'1080327684',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots will be sending quarterback Tom Brady and cornerback Stephon Gilmore to the 2018 Pro Bowl, according to Jeff Howe of the Athletic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":55057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[61,38,40,1011,3884,1063,331],"class_list":["post-55056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-football","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-pro-bowl","tag-shaq-mason","tag-stephon-gilmore","tag-tom-brady"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}