Yes those are questions marks in the title. The question marks are there because I would like to question the statement before it. Never have I seen NFL fans become so reactionary over one game. Never have I seen fans want something to happen so badly. Maybe that is just the nature of our society. We forgive and forget and want underdogs to succeed and in Vicks case, be redeemed. Yes Michael Vick beat the Redskins two Mondays ago. Yes he beat them bad. He beat them very bad...like really bad. If you did not see it, Vick went left, the 'skins went right, then the game was over. A simple 85 yd flick to begin the game and it was over. But when you get down to it, he beat a bad team on a bad day.
The problem with Michael Vick giving the M.V.P. is that he is not even in second in the M.V.P. voting. Since that game, people everywhere have been handing the M.V.P. to him like Philip Rivers did not exist. And I would argue that Tom Brady would finish second in the voting right now. If your tallest receiver is Wes Welker and you rely on a 6-yr old boy named Danny Woodhead, game in and game out and you are still 9-2, you get the M.V.P......uhh if Rivers was not doing what he is doing. I could sit here and spew out a bunch of stats but I will not. We all know Rivers is going to break Marino's season yardage record. And once again, he has started a late season run right on cue. He is doing more with nothing. And him and that nothing are going to come back and win the revived AFC West. If you could name the receivers the Chargers were going to have other than Malcolm Floyd, Antonio Gates and Vincent Jackson before the season started, I would have slapped yo mama in the face for raising a liar. What makes Rivers' year so great is that Gates has missed the last several games with injury, Jackson was a hold out and is going to play his first game this week and on top of it all, the Chargers first round draft pick Ryan Mathews has been injured most of the season and they have been relying on undersized Darren Sproles and someone named Mike Tolbert to run the ball. (Incidentally, if you cut Tolbert in half, you would get two Darren Sproles) I still do not know who their receivers are. One of them is a TUTU or something??
The lesson is this: we again need to separate what we want to happen from what is happening. Look, I am a football fan. I am a Michael Vick fan. I want him to be redeemed and to succeed just has much as the next guy, but that does not mean we can just ignore other greatness. The fact of the matter is that he missed three games but the Eagles still managed without him. In fact Kevin Kolb, the real starter, won two of those games. So you wonder how much of it was Vick and how much of it was really head coach Andy Reid. And the head coaching position is another point in Rivers' favor with the wailing idiot he has coaching him. Michael Vick has been very good this year, and who knows, maybe he will blow us all away these last six weeks and move in front of Rivers and Brady. But given how the Pats and Chargers play in December and January, do not count on it.
As for my humble M.V.P. picks,
- Philip Rivers. On top of all the stats and injured teammates, his team is in prime position for a division win
- Tom Brady. What can I say. Year in and year out he wins. If he did not have Bill Belichick as head coach, he would be number one.
- Michael Vick. You have seen the tape. You know what he can do. If he can do what he did to the Redskins a couple of more times, he might jump up the list.
Does anyone even really care about Vick? He falls into the category with VY. He's a freak of an athlete but his work ethic isn't that great. I have noticed improvement in his playing but how long will that last. He will remain inconsistent like he always has and fade away. He doesn't deserve MVP status just because he stomped the hell out of a team that isn't worth the mention. Rivers and Brady are consistent every year and are players that will not fade from memory easily
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