All this week, we’ll be bringing you our awards for the 2005 NFL season:
Offensive Rookie of the Year
Defensive Rookie of the Year
Offensive Player of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
MVP
Disappointment of the Year
Here are our picks for MVP. MVP:
Ryan McGowan: Tom Brady, QB , New England Patriots
I’m going with Brady as my MVP. He is quite simply the best at what he does, and an extension of Belichick on the field. As much as that sounds like a cliche, it is very much true.
There are three reasons why Brady deserves the MVP this year. One, he has the stats. He leads the league in passing yards (over 4,000) and has set career highs in completion percentage (63%) and QB rating (93.0). Two, his stats have shown remarkable consistency over the years. Look at Brady’s career stats and each year looks eerily similar: 16 games started, 60+ completion percentage, around 4,000 yards, 23-28 TD’s, 12-14 INT’s, 90-ish rating. He is so remarkably consistent that I think we forget sometimes just how great he is. He has been a much-needed rock in an otherwise unstable Patriots organization and team this season.
Lastly, Brady pretty much single-handedly won the Patriots at least four games this season: Pittsburgh, Atlanta, home vs Buffalo, and at Miami. He basically carried the team to victory through force of will and determination. Without him, the Patriots are at best 6-9 or 5-10. With him, they are 10-5 and have won three Super Bowls since 2001. With all due respect to Alexander, Barber, Manning, and Palmer, Brady is my choice for MVP this year.
Teri Berg: Shawn Alexander, RB, Seattle Seahawks
Let’s see: 1,880 rushing yards to win the rushing title. 28 TDs, a single-season record, breaking Priest Holmes’ mark. Eleven 100+ yard games, again tops in the NFL (also ties 6 other NFL greats for 3rd all-time for most 100+ yard games in a season). A 5.1-yard per carry average that’s second only to Tatum Bell, who has nearly 200 fewer carries. Shawn Alexander has picked up the heretofore disappointing Seattle Seahawks and carried them on his shoulders into their best season ever. Mike Holmgren should give Alexander anything he wants in his next contract for ushering what TMQ calls the Blue Man Group to a 13-2 record (so far), a division title, home-field advantage and a No. 1 seed in the NFC. No Shawn Alexander, no Seattle Seahawks. It’s that simple.
Vin Diec: Shawn Alexander, RB, Seattle Seahawks
The only other person I considered for MVP was Tiki Barber who had a phenomenal second half of the season and was the backbone of that team. But, Shaun did it the entire season and that’s why the Seahawks have the #1 seed in the NFC. The other reason I think Alexander is the MVP is that he made the players around him better. He made Matt Hasselbeck a good NFL QB. He made Joe Jurevicius one of the best free agent pickups last year. And finally, he was probably the MVP of your Fantasy Football league.
9 replies on “SC 2005 NFL Awards: MVP”
Brady – LOL This Brady for MVP bandwagon is laughable. I don’t remember a year in which an MVP didn’t have a DOMINANT year, or lead his team to dominance. Brady didn’t have a dominant year (no stat anywhere close to a record, nor any stat much better than a competitor), and his team was not dominant, either.
He didn’t even have the best year for a quarterback (Palmer, P. Manning). He threw less touchdowns and more interceptions than both of them.
I don’t know what the obsession is in trying to make Brady the game’s best player or best quarterback. He’s an excellent quarterback, no doubt, but he is not dominant. Consistence excellence gets you the Hall of Fame, a dominant season gets you the MVP.
Shaun Alexander – hands down!
what about Tiki c’mon Tom Brady..that’s ridicoulous might as well give it to Jake Plummer.Tiki barber has been phenomenal this year with 1800 plus yards , i know he doesn’t have the NFL record breaking 27 touchdowns he should be considered..Shaun Alexander only has 20 more yards..c’mon
tiki finished 4th if i was reading those polls right
i mentioned tiki it could be argued that he is more valuable to the giants than shaun is to the seahawks. we’ll find out this weekend. I think if Tiki doesnt have a great day, the giants are toast.
agreed there
think about it… If Shaun Alexander doesn’t have a good day, are the Seahawks toast? No, because they still have a very good passing offense.
If Peyton Manning doesn’t have a good day, are the Colts toast? Not with their running game and multiple defensive playmakers.
If Tom Brady doesn’t play well, are the Patriots toast? YES, Tom Brady creates Corey Dillon’s days and heck, the Pats didn’t even have a running game this year and they are still the most capable team to beat the Colts come playoff time. That makes you the MVP. You don’t need silly stats, individual accomplishments, etc. You need to be the most VALUABLE player in the league. The Patriots would have lost 10-12 games without Brady and all the injuries they have. And that is why Tom Brady was this year’s Most Valuable Player.
by that logic Tiki Barber would be MVP. Look how terrible the Giants were today when Carolina shut him down.
Eli was horrendous.
i’m with Jeff… I’d like to thank you for giving some love to Brady. Tom Brady was the Patriots this year. Their running game for most of the year consisted of Patrick Pass and Heath Evans, and they shouldn’t even be in the same league as Edgerrin James. This is the reason Brady threw so many interceptions. Tom Brady led the league in yards and came in third in touchdowns thrown. He carried the Patriots to a 10-6 record a division title and the #4 seed on his right arm, and he did this with a terrible defense that didn’t gel until week 14 when they already had the division clinched. The secondary was made up of players such as Artrell Hawkins, Ellis Hobbs, Hank Poteat Asante Samuel, and Michael Stone. This isn’t exactly an all-pro secondary. The front 7 also spent a good part of the year without Richard Seymour and Tedy Bruschi. This defense allowed huge point totals including 26 to Kansas City, 27 to Carolina, 28 to Atlant, Denver, and Miami, 40 to Indianapolis, and 41 to San Diego. Not including the game against Seattle, the Indy defense only gave up over 20 points 4 times this season. Of course those games included the Patriots in week 9 and the Bengals in week 11. This just proves how much Peyton had around him and how little Brady had to work with. The Colts would have been alright without Peyton Manning. Although they may not have gone 14-2, they would’ve done fine. We can now easily say that the same would also apply to Shaun Alexander after what Seattle did to the Redskins without him.
pretty interesting weekend turns out the Seahawks CAN win without Alexander.
Next week’s games should be great.