How does DeCamillis not win the Halas award?

[SaltwaterServr]

LordVoldemort.com says that Mike Zimmer won the Halas award for the person who overcame the most last season to succeed.

Yes, he lost his wife.

DeCamillis is almost paralyzed, coached the entire season in immense pain, cannot physically go through an entire game without using his hands to hold his head up because of the fact the muscles in his neck were sliced open to repair his spine.

Oh yeah, he has an emergency appendectomy hours before the first Commanders game and is coaching that week.

I see the point about Zimmer losing his wife, but DeCamillis was a hair away from a neck down complete paralysis and had another major surgery that could have killed him had it not been performed when it was.

 

[masomenos]

Zimmer also had to deal with being a part of the Cincinnati Bengals.

 

[Dawgs0916]

LordVoldemort.com says that Mike Zimmer won the Halas award for the person who overcame the most last season to succeed.

Yes, he lost his wife.

DeCamillis is almost paralyzed, coached the entire season in immense pain, cannot physically go through an entire game without using his hands to hold his head up because of the fact the muscles in his neck were sliced open to repair his spine.

Oh yeah, he has an emergency appendectomy hours before the first Commanders game and is coaching that week.

I see the point about Zimmer losing his wife, but DeCamillis was a hair away from a neck down complete paralysis and had another major surgery that
could have killed him had it not been performed when it was.

I've never been married but if theirs was a true love type of marriage, I can't disagree with him getting the award.

 

[dcfanatic]

Poor taste.

Trying to take away an award from a guy who suddenly lost his wife?

 

[Hostile]

I think the right guy won it to be quite honest.

Not saying DeCamillis wasn't also a worthy candidate because that would be absurd. Of course he was.

But the sheer heartbreak he went through and now has to raise his kids without her.

I cannot even begin to fault him for that award.

 

[daschoo]

the guys wife died. ok its not physical but i can't even imagine how hard that must be to come to terms with. and before the argument about work helping him, ie a release from what he was going through the same could be said for coach joe. either would have been a worthy (if unwilling) winner and i'm just glad i wasn't asked to decide who overcame more.

 

[AbeBeta]

trying to compare the two guys is awful ... but if I were voting, I'd like have gone Zimmer.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Yeah. Noone is going to top losing your wife in the public eye.

 

[big dog cowboy]

It had to be a tough decision, but Zimmer would get the nod from me. Tough call.

 

[dadymat]

my vote would go for the guy who lost his wife every time.......physical pain is nothing compared to pain of losing a loved one

 

[john van brocklin]

Zimmer deserved it, end of story...........

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Sorry but the right guy received the award... I admire Coach DeCamillis for fighting back and even enduring emergency surgery in D.C. BUT he didn't lose his beloved wife.

Coach Zimmer was my choice as well.

 

[BubbleScreen]

I don't think saying Coach Joe deserved to win means you want to take the award from Zimmer, who always seemed like a good guy in Dallas.

Joe was voted the Ed Block Courage Award winner by the team, though, and that's almost always a player's award.

A lot of people think DeCamillis is underappreciated, and they're right.

But you just can't compare the experiences of the two men. Apples and oranges.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

LordVoldemort.com says that Mike Zimmer won the Halas award for the person who overcame the most last season to succeed.

Yes, he lost his wife.

DeCamillis is almost paralyzed, coached the entire season in immense pain, cannot physically go through an entire game without using his hands to hold his head up because of the fact the muscles in his neck were sliced open to repair his spine.

Oh yeah, he has an emergency appendectomy hours before the first Commanders game and is coaching that week.

I see the point about Zimmer losing his wife, but DeCamillis was a hair away from a neck down complete paralysis and had another major surgery that could have killed him had it not been performed when it was.

I would give DeCamillis edge. No, Zim.
Damn it is a tough one.
Salty, you axing us to plick one or the othah? OK, I go with . . . .damng it be so hard to decide.

 

[rkell87]

not the popular opinion but i tend to agree with the OP. both men are deserving in very unfortunate and incomparable ways, but for zim burying himself in his work most likely helped him through his difficult time where as for coach D, work most likely made his struggle that much more difficult.

both were deserving but this is the way i feel just my .02

 

[DaBoys4Life]

LoL I was just about to quote saltwatr till his post got deleted =/ oh wells mangz you know what you said. If you don't want your post to be taken like that then you really shouldn't touch on sensitive topics.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

A little one-sided here, isn't it?

 

[Hoofbite]

Just a guess....but I think if both had to pick between a surgically repaired neck and losing their wives, they would take the neck.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Just a guess....but I think if both had to pick between a surgically repaired neck and losing their wives, they would take the neck.

Yeah, by some sleep-deprived logic this afternoon I was thinking that Joe was more deserving. The neck injury and appendectomy would easily be worth getting to spend just one more day with the love of your life.

 

[Longboysfan]

Zimmer deserved it, end of story...........

Echo a yes to that.