Sweeney: My choice for Revs' 2018 Defender of the Year is....

FOXBOROUGH -- We are just past the hour of 5 on this beautiful Sunday evening, Oct. 14, and media voting just closed for the 2018 Revolution Defender of the Year Award. Voting started just before 4 p.m. on Oct. 2 via SurveyMonkey, and my fellow Blue Level Denizens and I had five options from which to choose this year:

• Andrew Farrell


• Jalil Anibaba


• Antonio Delamea


• Claude Dielna


• Brandon Bye

• Only played 22 minutes of the season opener; red carded for denial of an obvious goal-scoring opportunity — that wasn’t defense, that was a mugging


• Freezing and not tracking back on Josef Martinez in the home Atlanta game


• Handling against Philadelphia at home

• Own goal against Columbus


• Generally slow in tracking back


• Couldn’t contain NYCFC at Yankee Stadium; slow in trying to stop NYCFC at home in March


• Constant giveaways


• Had a couple of good months of play, but that doesn’t outweigh any of the above

• Was promising at left back, but gave up a horrid goal to Aleksander Katai

• Had 27 blocks, which was an up for him, BUT…


• Switched off on the LA throw-in which led to the match-winner on July 14


• Slow to react on Philadelphia’s second goal on Aug. 11


• Did not crack back fast enough on Cory Burke’s goal against Philadelphia on Aug. 25


• Found himself bullied off the ball by Dom Dwyer in Orlando

• Put the Revs down to nine men against Philadelphia in the opener


• Generally played without tact #HandsLikeACementTruck


• Was at the heart of the 1-0 loss to Dallas, ball-watching


• Was at the heart of the 3-2 loss to the Galaxy, not clearing set pieces