it was taken away from me<\/a> — and it ain\u2019t the first time.\u201d<\/p>\nSweat has tied his single-season high with 11 sacks, which he also had in 2022 with the Eagles, and he has four forced fumbles. He signed with the Cardinals in free agency this offseason, reuniting with Jonathan Gannon and Nick Rallis after two seasons with them in Philadelphia, and has had his best season despite the Cardinals\u2019 lack of success.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like I don\u2019t know what else I could have done at that point,\u201d Sweat said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what else I could have done. Now previous years, maybe you could have said he didn\u2019t have the popularity, maybe he didn\u2019t get the fan vote. This year, I was second in fan voting [at outside linebacker] for [the] NFC. It\u2019s like, what else did they want me to do? The popularity was there. You could say losing team. It didn\u2019t matter; I had the popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giants linebacker Brian Burns and Rams linebackers Byron Young and Jared Verse were the Pro Bowlers selected at the position.<\/p>\n
Sweat called it \u201cfrustrating\u201d to not be recognized for his play this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fans said, \u2018He should be the guy; we want him in.\u2019 My play showed that I should be in,\u201d Sweat said. \u201cBut somewhere, some popularity within the league said that he shouldn\u2019t be in. I just want to know if I\u2019m crazy. The only double-digit NFC guy to not make it. All they do is wave a player card in your face, like, \u2018Go vote. Look at the sacks and forced fumbles.\u2019 But you on a hotter team or your team losing or whatever; I ain\u2019t really trying to hear none of that. I just want what I earned and what I worked for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sweat was a Pro Bowl alternate in 2021 but got called up when 49ers edge rusher Nick Bosa was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinals edge rusher Josh Sweat was the only NFC player with double-digit sacks not to get a Pro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-369070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}