NFL MVP

[dshans]

As a resident of MPS I feel obligated to vote for Peterson. He's had a solid career and his rebound from last year's knee injury to this year's team leading (and possibly record setting) performance is impressive.

 

[ickythump1225]

So how do all of the AD doubters feel now? 2,097 yards and the Vikings are in the playoffs! There is no reason that he shouldn't be MVP. If the Vikings would have fallen flat and went 8-8 I would have probably conceded that someone else would likely win it and would have a good case. But beating the Texans on the road and beating the Packers at home cements it.

 

[NDPhilly]

Tony Romo giving him a run for his money tonight.

 

[Bishop2b5]

You mean the guy who lead a team who won their division last year and got a playoff win to be able to win their division again? It could very well be him, but there's definitely no "gotta be" about it.

AD tore his ACL and MCL on Christmas Eve last year...and is threatening one of the most revered NFL records less than a year later. Oh, he also has an absolute sh!tsandwich of a QB, no other playmakers on offense (especially with Harvin out), opposing defenses know exactly what is coming at them, and his team is in the playoff hunt after posting 3(?) wins last year. Yeah, I'd say Peterson deserves at least a couple votes.

^What he said^

Peterson gets my vote

 

[Rhode Irish]

Right, because those are vanilla numbers with no context. Which was kinda the point. Adrian Peterson is taking a crappy team to playoff contention with a historic year. Peyton Manning is taking a team that sucked for the last couple seasons to 11-3 and on a 9-0 run since the team started to jell. J.J. Watt is being J.J. Watt.

I agree with all of this. I am a Patriots season ticket holder, and my MVP vote (if I had one) would definitely go to Peterson.

Most VALUABLE Player. Belichik already proved that Brady is only a little bit more valuable than Matt Cassell and the only way you can consider giving Brady the award is if he was blowing away the rest of the league in stats and Ws. He's the product of a great system that fits his strengths.

I agree with none of this. Brady has been the most valuable player at various points in his career, he just isn't this year. Saying that Brady is a system guy and slightly better than Matt Cassell is either silliness or trolling. Either Brady or Manning is the best QB ever to play; one could reasonably argue one way or the other, but the implication that Brady was just in the right place at the right time is simply wrong. Wherever he ended up would have been the right place at the right time, and the Patriots are fortunate it was with us. You can look at the 11 games the Pats won with Cassell, but that was still five games less than the same roster won the previous year with Brady (for comparison, the Denver also won five more games with Manning compared to Tebow). If you watched that Pats team play at all in 2008, that was not even close to the same team as it was with Brady; the offense was all game-management and they handled an easy schedule with game plan smoke and mirrors. And it was still the only Pats team in the last decade not to make the playoffs.

 

[Sureal]

Tony Romo

 

[irishog77]

Obviously a lot of you are liking AP in this, but let me ask you this;

AP's Vikings play Houston and GB in the next two weeks. They will be heavy underdogs and even losing one of those games will cost them a chance at the playoffs. Also, both Houston and GB have good run defenses, so AP not breaking Dickerson's record is quite plausible.

If they lose both and AP falls short of the record, are you still picking him over a guy like Peyton that had a great season not only personally, but also for his team. The same team that will be getting a first round bye in the upcoming playoffs.

Interesting question. I guess part of it for me is, does he still have great games the next 2 weeks and misses the record by 11 yards...or does he lay 2 eggs and misses the record by 190 yards? In the first scenario, I still would absolutely give it to him. In the 2nd scenario, I would have to see the other contenders' final 2 games and final stats. Speaking blindly right now, I would probably(?) still say Peterson. Manning, Brady, and Rodgers are all having very good seasons right now, but nothing eye-popping like we've seen them and Brees and Warner put up in recent memory. But we've still got 1 legitimate week for them to play and maybe 2 legitimate weeks. That's another factor that may help Peterson-- he and his team should be playing balls to the wall for 2 more weeks, while those others may really only have 4, 5 quarters of meaningful football left. I think, in a way, Manning and Brady are victims of their own success. What are we seeing from them this year that we haven't already seen from them? Team wins another 11-12 games, 4,000 yards, 30+ TD's-- check, check, and check.

Sidenote-- The AFC South blogger for ESPN, Paul Kuharsky (sp?), is also on a radio show in Nashville. He brought up today that when CJ ran for 2,000 yards a few years ago, he didn't receive a single MVP vote. Granted, the Titans weren't really ever a playoff threat that year, but that seems mind-boggling to me-- not 1 vote. Of course he won the Offensive Player of the Year Award, but still.

So anyway, Wooly, yeah, I'd probably vote for him, but ask me again in 2 weeks and I'll have a more definite answer.

Still believe AD here, Wooly. Peterson had the 2nd most yards ever. He finished with ~850 yards less than what his QB threw for. I think he accounted for 5 fewer TD's than his QB. There were no other playmakers on his team. And his team made the playoffs. So not only did Peterson have an HISTORIC year individually, but his team won.

Manning had a good/very good year (let's face it, none of his numbers were anything in the "historic" realm) individually, and his team had a great year. A playoff team from a year ago.

Obviously Manning is a Top QB to ever play the game, but no way do I think he was the best overall player nor most valuable player in the 2012 NFL season.

 

[ickythump1225]

I think AD going for 199 yards and accounting for 2 touchdowns in a playoff clinching win over their biggest rival, who just happened to be fighting for the #2 seed, dissipated any argument Manning, Rodgers, or Brady had to the MVP trophy. If Peterson can't win the MVP with a year like this they just need to go ahead and make it a QB only award.