Re: From SI.Com -- Brady is League MVP
- From: "jupiter49" <jupiter49antiSPam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:00:04 -0400
Brady is a fake. He can't throw a ball 80 yards. Mike Bishop is the real
deal.
"Orwell" <orwellnelson@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Early in the season, but Banks makes sense!
>
>
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/don_banks/09/29/brady.mvp/index.html
>
> A long overdue award
>
> It may be early, but Tom Brady is the MVP
>
> Don Banks
>
>
> I'm gonna jump the gun here a bit. By about three months. I've figured
> out who the NFL's MVP is this season and I'm going to be the first one
> into the water on this. You ready?
>
> Tom Brady, come on down and pick up your hardware.
>
> Too early? Too bad. I've sat around and watched Brady get stiffed in
> the MVP balloting the past two years and I'm determined not to let it
> happen again. So I'm throwing all my considerable clout into this
> campaign and calling in all my markers. Both of 'em.
>
> I happen to be one of the Associated Press MVP electors and I intend to
> vote Brady. Early and often.
>
> Be it just three weeks into the season or playing it by the book and
> waiting three more months, it won't make a difference. Brady has been
> the NFL's most valuable player (no capital letters needed) for three
> years running and it's high time we all recognized him for it.
>
> What exactly are we waiting for people? To make sure he's not a fluke?
> OK, that made sense in those heady days of 2001, but what about the
> rest of Brady's historic run? When will we have seen enough to realize
> we're watching the best there is at the game's most critical position?
> Better than Peyton Manning and Steve McNair, who have earned the past
> two MVPs. Better than the revered Brett Favre, or the prolific Daunte
> Culpepper, or the far-too-one-dimensional Michael Vick. Better than the
> proven Donovan McNabb and the proficient Ben Roethlisberger, the last
> two guys he out-dueled last season.
>
> I've had it with the fantasy football approach to the MVP award: Who
> has the best numbers?
>
> Brady loses out every year because he doesn't have eye-popping
> statistics, but in truth he has numbers galore; they're just not the
> kind that fall into one calendar year and win you MVP votes. A 9-0
> record as a playoff starter; 18 wins when the Pats were either tied or
> trailing in the fourth quarter; a 7-0 mark in overtime; a record of
> 59-15 (.797) as a starter, the best mark of any quarterback in the
> Super Bowl era; going an entire season (2003) without throwing an
> interception at home.
>
> Oh, yeah, and then there are those three Super Bowl rings he won before
> his 28th birthday. Those seven other quarterbacks I mentioned earlier?
> They own a combined one Super Bowl ring between them.
>
> Consider that Roethlisberger has lost exactly two games in his meteoric
> NFL career, and coincidentally both have come when Brady was the
> opposing quarterback. Manning? Besides not being able to beat Brady
> head-to-head, he can only dream of doing what Brady has done three
> times over -- leading a team to a Super Bowl title.
>
> went along with the Manning MVP coronation last year and voted for
> him. After all, he broke the NFL's single-season record for touchdown
> passes, that hallowed mark that had stood for all of 20 years. But
> guess what? When the playoffs rolled around, it was Brady and the
> Patriots over Manning and the Colts once again.
>
> Another ring or his first MVP trophy? I know which one Brady would
> rather have. But by now he should have both.
>
> It clearly works against Brady and his MVP hopes that New England is
> the ultimate team, with an organizational mentality of quashing any
> promotion of the individual at the expense of the greater good.
> Patriots headmaster Bill Belichick abhors putting one player ahead of
> the team, and he'll never lead the chorus in singing Brady's praises.
>
> But here's one more indicator of Brady's impact in New England: Before
> Brady started a game for him, Belichick was 42-58 (.420) as an NFL head
> coach, with one playoff trip. Since Brady took over in early 2001,
> Belichick has gone 59-15 (.797) and has won three Super Bowls. That's a
> decent little upswing.
>
> For all their inventive and adaptive ways, the Patriots knows in their
> hearts that Brady is the one key cog who can't be replaced. With all
> due respect to Belichick's proven coaching acumen, Brady's simply the
> biggest reason New England has those three shiny trophies and a shot at
> a fourth.
>
> Here's what one AFC East team official told me about the Patriots this
> preseason: "They have lost some talent, but don't forget they still
> have the quarterback. When the game's on the line, he makes all the
> throws. The guy's never lost a playoff game. That's unbelievable. If he
> ever got hurt, then we'd see how beatable they really are.''
>
> What Brady did in leading the injury-plagued Patriots to a 23-20 win at
> Pittsburgh on Sunday -- with that 12-of-12 fourth-quarter performance
> -- only cemented his status as the player by which all others should be
> measured.
>
> And Brady's fellow NFL players know he's the best quarterback in the
> game. Hines Ward said it on Sunday. So did Roethlisberger. As did
> Carolina safety Mike Minter the week before. So why do we the MVP
> voters fail to see it?
>
> Players know it's all about winning. That's where true value exists in
> the NFL. Nobody does more than Brady. So give all the stat freaks their
> offensive player of the year award to bestow. Just give Brady the MVP.
> Because he's the best. Anybody drawing any other conclusion is either
> Manning's agent or ought to be drug tested.
>
> Brady for MVP. Let's do it now and avoid the rush.
>
.
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