Pat Y: Drew Brees for MVP?

bergeaux said
Rodgers and Brees are in a 1 year tie in my opinion. The tie breaker is time invested. Brees has done it longer and proven the pedigree to deserve the MVP. If one or the other had a big lead over everyone else, then fine, but this is really a tie.

I know it's supposed to be about "this year", but if that were the case there were years that some other MVP's wouldn't have won it in similar tie situations. Let's be honest.

Look at the list for past MVPs and check out the year others in the league had those years:

National Football League Most Valuable Player Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2009 stands out to me the biggest. Drew had an incredible year and was on an incredible team, with considerably better stats than Manning, but Manning won because of pedigree.

Brees deserves this MVP, he's earned it this year and past years. Rodgers will earn it if he can keep doing this.

It wouldn't be the first time MVP considered a complete body of work rather than just the one year... that's one of the things that has worked for Manning in the past.

The thing is that people have been looking to crown the next great young QB and have been looking to Rodgers for that honor. With the Super Bowl run last year, he validated that outlook and really this year he has been every bit as good as the hype that was made about him. Rodgers has established himself as being one of the unquestioned elite this season... you can't take that away from him, the guy is playing at a very high level.

With the recent memory of that Super Bowl run and a Super Bowl MVP being followed up by just out of this world play and an undefeated season so far, I believe MVP will go to Rodgers unless he has some big breakdown in the next few weeks -- which I don't see happening. Brees should be in the conversation, and I agree with Pat that Brees is having every bit as good of a season as Rodgers. But its going to be that QB rating and the talk of a perfect season that will be on everyone's mind when MVP voting comes around.

You could make the argument that Brees's likelihood to break one "unbreakable record" in Marino's passing yards while edging up on the "really unbreakable record" of consecutive games with a TD pass are far more significant than QB rating in a season and the string of wins that GB has so far. But the one thing about those that will still hurt Brees's chances at MVP even if he breaks Marino's record is that both Brady & Rodgers may break it also, and if not, they'll be close.

I'd love to see Brees win MVP, it just doesn't look like it will happen again this year. But, just like in 2009, I'd trade league MVP for Super Bowl MVP any day.