AndyJohnson

Stupidest post of the year.

PatsWickedPissah

I took it as satire

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AndyJohnson

That is a tremendous exaggeration. I remember 3 times that the Bears got a hand on the ball. That is far from should have had 3 picks. When a LB exrtends and gets a finger on the ball and tips it up and no one is there to Int it, you apparently call that should have been an Int. By that yardstick every NFL QB should have been picked about 40 times this year.

TruthSeeker

Exactly. On the first one, a LB gets a hand on it (absolutely no chance to intercept it), it pops up in the air and another defender is close but evidently just out of range of being able to intercept it. Good play to tip the ball but should it have been an interception? No in this game it shouldn't have been.

The second one has a LB reaching well behind himself to tip the ball and it lands near no one. Should that have been an interception? No way.

The third one was Urlacher jumping out and catching the ball at the top of the jump but not being able to hold onto it as he came down. That was a likely interception but one that just as often doesn't get made - particularly in tough conditions like that game.

TruthSeeker

I read the article and the author specifically states that he doesn't take into account weather unless there is a clear impact due to the weather (such as the ball obviously flying off path).

Right there you know that any analysis is going to be way off because the weather factor was huge. I'm not talking about the snow; I'm talking about the 30+ MPH winds as well as the cold. There's already been some discussion here about how a QB has to throw the ball differently in below-freezing temperatures. The wind impacted a lot of throws - some obviously and some not so obviously. I believe the game situation also impacted throws as Tom Brady clearly threw a number of balls low in the second half when the important thing was not to create a turnover; getting the yardage gain or even the first down was secondary.

So, yes, Tom Brady did have a really good game. There were certainly mistakes. But I'll tell you this - you give Tom Brady that same protection in a 68 degree dome and no wind and the stats would be much better. Ignoring the awful conditions is just ridiculous.

Fixit

If you haven't seen it, they have Aaron Rodgers as their MVP, and say, "...and Brady certainly seems like the easy choice with everyone more or less using the same formula: Best passer rating + best team record = MVP quarterback.

It’s not invalid, and it’s tough to argue against. But Brady is in second place after our 10 internal ballots were tabulated, behind a guy with a worse passer rating and a worse record – but one we agree is having a better and more valuable season."

Their woefully inadequate grasp of what kind of season Brady's having and why damn near everyone has him as their MVP aside, in the comments they deny any bias against Brady.

But then:

Offensive Player of the Year.

Like I said...funny.

upstater1

Sometimes it's better for people to look into other ways to spend their time, like gardening.

Why do people even go to that site?

I mean, it's OK for people to put up their own blogs, and it's ok to come up with zany analysis, but if you're not as funny as the Onion, why bother?

BradyManny

My distaste for this site is well-established.

Ultimately, it's a bunch of football fans with ZERO football experience pretending to be "analysts".

Their Brady obsession is simple - they need to prove their own value by coming to a conclusion different from the mainstream media.

VJCPatriot

LOL. What a crock. They have 3 QB candidates contending for OPOY and none of them is named Tom Brady. Maybe you could justify some weird made up metric based argument against Brady for MVP, but not even being an OPOY candidate is ludicrous. This website has no credibility for me. I really haven't even heard of them much before now. Maybe they're just doing it for the publicity? Who knows. Thankfully, the real MVP award will be issued from the AP to Brady, and that's the one we care about. Although of course not as much as we care about the Lombardi which I'm sure is the only trophy that Tom covets.

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Ice_Ice_Brady

It's funny how they act like they are so important, with their 10-member panel vote. A bunch of fat computer nerds sitting around, eating ice cream, fighting the system. To my knowledge they have no official AP vote for MVP. This is probably the biggest joke site on the internet.