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A big problem is that Lamar also had a playoff choker label and they were sort of over giving him major accolades and watching his disappoint. Also Allen never really got honored despite being a top 2 QB in the league each of the last 5 ish years and giving Lamar a third and putting him in rare air wasn't as enticing as giving Allen a little shine.
Bryce Young will prevent it that is certain.
It doesn't typically happen, but this is a weird year. If the debate is between a 2 seed QB and a 5 seed QB that could be a big contentious issue. But in reality, Stafford won exactly 2 less games than Maye. So when you look at seeding it seems more dramatic a difference than it is. And people can poo poo the Falcons game loss but the Patriots have a loss against the last place team in the NFL. The rest of both teams losses were against playoff teams (Patriots lost to the Bills and Steelers while the Rams lost to the Eagles, 49'ers, Panthers, Seahawks) and like the Patriots, they split with the playoff teams in their division and the losses were OT losses so they don't look that bad.
Yup, but everything you stated relates to career, not a singular year, which is what the award is supposed to be.
It's supposed to be, but let's be real, "narrative" plays a lot in the MVP discussion. Typically the more enticing story has an advantage. And Stafford is a guy who a lot of people in the media felt was stuck in Detroit and getting kneecapped from career accolades and now has a chance late in his career to show that Detroit was the issue and he can be a winner and top end talent in a competent structure. Maye just sort of has "young guy having a break out season" narrative going on which is something that happens every few years.
Stafford didn’t already prove that by, you know, winning a Super Bowl?
Oh I agree 100%.
Because fans all want their guy to win the award and anyone that does not agree is obviously a hater.
Yeah but 1 ring ain't getting him in the HOF. An MVP on top of that will. This is pretty much his only chance to solidify any case for a HOF bid so in a close race, narratively this is a career do or die moment for Stafford.
That's not necessarily true.
That's a big leap of logic though between "prove he's actually good and was just being held back by Detroit" and "prove he belongs in the HOF." Those two are not the same thing. He's proven he is good - but I don't think most voters will ever feel he's a HOF level QB even with an MVP and a ring. The average fan will forget who he was 10 years from now.
If this is true and voters are basing their votes on the meaning to your legacy of being given an award or the number of years you have left to win another, rather than who was the most valuable player the system is horribly broken.
Again, the term value is subjective. Every year fans of a player in the running try to squeeze whatever metrics support their guy into that "value" part. MVP has always been a narrative award. Peyton Manning and Tom Brady both won MVP's while having some of the stupidest embarrassment of riches surrounding them on offense. It's typically just the playoff QB with the best volume stats unless some RB makes the playoffs and breaks some longstanding record.
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