FPD":1dpw2zzl said:
I agree with everything you said here Todd...Especially the highlighted part. I suppose it just depends upon how you define MVP.
That's always been my problem with the MVP award. It has little to do with the true meaning of the term, and much more to do with pure stats. Sure, stats can be an indicator of success but it rarely tells the whole story. The NFL world wants to anoint MVP based on stats first, team success second. Usually, if not always, the two go hand-in-hand. The emphasis on stats is what bothers me.
Like I said before, I would be hard pressed to think of one single human being in the NFL that has exemplified the true meaning of "Most Valuable Player" to their team other than Russell Wilson over the majority of his career. And no, that's not a diehard Seahawks fan talking, that's the honest truth.
Yet, I understand it's a popularity contest as much as anything. The shiny new toy is going to beat out just about anything else, it's simply human nature. Take last year as example. Russell was the leading candidate for MVP through the mid-point of the season until Lamar Jackson decided to stop being a human and decided to be a video game character for the rest of the year.
Russell's stats trickled off late in the season while Jackson's stats were pretty dang terrific if not eye-popping in some categories. So I definitely get why he was voted as the 2019 MVP over Wilson. Not many would argue that result. I take nothing away from Lamar's performance last year.
2019 is a classic example of taking statistical performance over what I personally believe it truly means to be a Most Valuable Player for your football team. In fact, I would go so far as to say there needs to be two separate awards. One for Most Valuable Player, and one for Most Exciting Player.
MVP, MEP.
Not that that will ever happen but that's the distinction I feel about the topic.
I think Russell should have been MEP maybe a couple times so far in his career, but MVP? Damn near all of his career.
