MVP’s increase the expectation to perform when it matters most. That’s always been the case in sports.
Josh allen has the same amount of afc championship game appearances as lamar jackson, his playoff prowess was beating mason rudolph, mac jones, skylar thomspon and a washed up phillip rivers. He lost to a mediocre rams team but got more praise than lamar who threw 5 touchdowns with no ints against the giants, a stat no qb had done that entire season because he tush pushed 3 rushing touchdowns form the 1 yard line. He was outplayed by rookie drake mayes and was saved by his defense against the patriots the worst team in the AFC. There is no reason for allen to win it over lamar not after this game, not after this dominant stretch , their argument was to say how can you be mvp when you arent even winning your own division, ignoring the cake walk the afc east and how easy it is, now lamar has his team first in the division to finish with 12 wins they have no arguments. No need to give allen a free pass at all. What will be the excuse this year when allen loses to mahomes again? Will they have to change another playoff rule?
I gave the case for both a few posts up. I think all things even Lamar is more deserving but I understand why Josh could win it; I think Josh WILL win it, and I think he's deserving enough...
I strongly disagree he is deserving of the MVP award over lamar jackson not when the difference in actual play on the field is this clear, not ignoring their strength of schedule, not ignoring lamar blew out josh allen head to head, not ignoring the cake walk that the afc east is and the easy free wins every season.
The main problem with this argument is that the media was literally backing Jackson as MVP before that loss to the Browns and Allen didn't jump ahead until that win over the Chiefs, which looks even more impressive as the season goes on. Pretending otherwise is being disingenous and acting as if he was MVP all alone. Those wins over the Chiefs and Lions helped him more than anything.When you think about it, Josh Allen this season might be closer to Jalen Hurts than he is Lamar Jackson
The biggest problem with the MVP prize in both basketball and football is that it's a media prize. And the media start their campaign really early in the season and they just keep on doubling down, it's hard to change large parats of them with facts after they launched their campaigns. They've already wasted a lot of paper, bandwidth, TV-time and money on the people they are backing
Did you watch the game?
That Texans team isn't the same team now that they were back then, so it's a bit disingenous to compare the two.
I don't know about that, I'm one that fully backed Allen until recently when I start reflecting across the whole season, also accounting for heads-up fights where Ravens completely smashed Bills by like 25-30 points. I think I got carried away by the media and a few very spectacular plays like 4th down vs Chiefs. Didn't see anyone talk about Lamar in the beginning as they were like 2-2, then 5-3. Smashing bills was the only memorable game
When you think about it, Josh Allen this season might be closer to Jalen Hurts than he is Lamar Jackson. Those sneaks and tush pushes are not as relevant now though
The biggest problem with the MVP prize in both basketball and football is that it's a media prize. And the media start their campaign really early in the season and they just keep on doubling down, it's hard to change large parats of them with facts after they launched their campaigns. They've already wasted a lot of paper, bandwidth, TV-time and money on the people they are backing.
Which means nothing as they're still out here finding ways to win and still leading the NFC even in spite of those injuries.I don't know about that, I'm one that fully backed Allen until recently when I start reflecting across the whole season, also accounting for heads-up fights where Ravens completely smashed Bills by like 25-30 points. I think I got carried away by the media and a few very spectacular plays like 4th down vs Chiefs. Didn't see anyone talk about Lamar in the beginning as they were like 2-2, then 5-3. Smashing bills was the only memorable game
As far as the Lions team goes, he was playing against like 8 practice squad members.
And as far as the Browns goes, the only thing anyone talked about that game was how wack his receivers were. "Sun in the eyes", teflon gloves, balls on helmets and on
I'll agree on last season, but I'd call that an anamoly cause it was too many people on the same not-so-good level. Lamar, Dak, Purdy, Mahomes, Allen, hell even Tua and Hurts were involved if I recall correctly
NOT TRUE.
LAMAR WASNT EVEN IN THE MVP DISCUSSION
LAST SEASON UNTIL THE SEASON
WAS DAMN NEAR OVER.
ONCE AGAIN LAMAR WAS
THE CLEAR CUT FAVORITE THIS SEASON
UNTIL THE RAVENS HIT THAT ROUGH PATCH
AND ALLEN WENT ON TO BEAT
KC/DET AND SCORE 6TDS IN A GAME.
NOW LAMAR HAS GAINED MOMENTUM
AND IS COMING FOR THE CROWN AGAIN.
Stop using this dumbass logic.
Jokic wasn't competing with those players to win MVP.
Look at how stupid y'all looked when he went on to win a title that season.
