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Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:09 pm
by Orion
2,097 yards and Vikings make the playoffs. Chances look good for MVP? I think he gets it, but wouldn't be surprised if it goes to Peyton Maning.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:15 pm
by Dark
I think he should get it, but based off of the past MVP picks, I would say it goes to manning.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:20 pm
by J. Kapp 11
If Manning gets the award, they should just stop giving it out.
Peyton Manning had a good year for a playoff team. Adrian Peterson had a super-human year following ACL surgery one year ago today for a 3-13 team and put them on his back to the playoffs.
Deion Sanders said it best ... if they give it to Manning, they might as well rename the award the MVQB.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:23 pm
by Xqed
They might as well rename the stupid thing the MVQ award because it's always a quarterback. Yet you take Peterson off the Vikings and I bet they're a 4-12 team this year, if that. The Broncos made it to the playoffs, and WON a playoff game, with Tim freaking Tebow. Manning is a good QB but MVP? He made a good team better. AP made an average-to-poor team a playoff team.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:24 pm
by admvp
Orion wrote:2,097 yards and Vikings make the playoffs. Chances look good for MVP? I think he gets it, but wouldn't be surprised if it goes to Peyton Maning.
As a lifelong Vol, I wouldn't complain
too much if Peyton Manning won it.
But Adrian is the clear cut favorite; he absolutely
should win MVP. Period. We're probably 6-7 games better than we would be if we had an average running back. That's what 'valuable' is.
But I don't trust the voters one bit to get this right. YOU BETTER GIVE IT TO ADRIAN YOU STUPID VOTERS.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:24 pm
by akvikingsfan
But if you look at Peyton's stats and compare them to Brady, Rodgers, or Brees Manning wasn't even the best QB. Yes he did outstanding coming off of his injury, but I don't see anyway that he is MVP. If anyone besides Peterson gets MVP the award will be a complete joke in my opinion.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:26 pm
by visitingbearsfan
It will a travesty if AD does not win the MVP.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:26 pm
by HornedMessiah
J. Kapp 11 wrote:Peyton Manning had a good year for a playoff team. Adrian Peterson had a super-human year following ACL surgery one year ago today for a 3-13 team and put them on his back to the playoffs.
Well said. Give Peterson the MVP, Manning gets Comback Player of the Year. That makes the most sense, but I have a bad feeling it will be the other way around.
It would have been awesome to see him get the record, but now he'll just be even more hungry
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:30 pm
by yezzir
The boner sports media has for Manning may reach just far enough to deny AD the award. But since since most of them consider the player's team making the playoffs crucial in order to win MVP, I feel they shouldn't have any other choice but to vote for AD.
For those who are unsure, ballots are casted BEFORE the playoffs start.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:32 pm
by J. Kapp 11
Just in ... AD has at least one vote.
Don Banks of Sports Illustrated wrote:It took until the penultimate game of the NFL's 256-game regular season, and then until the final dramatic seconds of that, but I finally know who gets my vote in the league's ridiculously close MVP race. It may be difficult at times to define or describe what an MVP is or should be, but you know it when you see it. And Sunday afternoon in the Metrodome, the entire football nation saw it -- in spectacular fashion.
Adrian Peterson earned my vote, and punched the Minnesota Vikings' ticket to the playoffs, all in one wildly entertaining and near-historic performance.
When my Associated Press ballot is filled out on Monday, it'll have Peterson's name in the MVP blank, and I imagine I'll be far from alone in making that choice. On the one-year anniversary of his major knee reconstruction, in a game the Vikings had to win to reach the playoffs for the first time in three years, Peterson was his super-human self, rushing a career-high 34 times for 199 yards, with one score on the ground and another through the air in Minnesota's thrilling 37-34 defeat of visiting Green Bay.
Read the entire article.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:34 pm
by yezzir
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:40 pm
by mossbutt
Regardless who is named MVP, everyone knows who deserves it including Manning.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:41 pm
by w_huisman
I will be so jaded if AD doesn't win the award, I don't think any future MVP, comeback player of the year, rookie of the year, etc... award will ever mean anything.
AD is the man. Plain and simple. How could ANYONE ever argue that?
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:48 pm
by Soonerfan65
If peterson doesn't win it the damn award should just be cancelled; the Vikings may not have won a game this year without Peterson; the Broncos were a pretty solid team before they got Manning.
Re: Peterson: MVP?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:54 pm
by yezzir
Soonerfan65 wrote:If peterson doesn't win it the damn award should just be cancelled; the Vikings may not have won a game this year without Peterson; the Broncos were a pretty solid team before they got Manning.
Cha-ching. Tebow won them a playoff game last year.