Comments on: Brett Favre is the MVP

By: Why Brett Favre will be (co-)MVP - Jeff Bercovici - Unpacked - True/Slant

Why Brett Favre will be (co-)MVP - Jeff Bercovici - Unpacked - True/Slant — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:34:13 +0000

[...] still nearly a third of the season yet to be played, but the talk has already turned to who’s the league’s most valuable player, and who’s the defensive player of the [...]

By: Brian Donovan

Brian Donovan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:15:04 +0000

As a Drew Brees fantasy owner i will disagree, frommke. He’s been very good, but not great. He’s had a handful of games this year that have been mediocre. He could have an amazing home stretch as the Saints’ closing schedule is very easy (save this week against the Pats), so he could pull it out.

By: ncfrommke

ncfrommke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:34:00 +0000

As someone who bleeds Green & Gold (as a toddler, the sight of #5 rounding the corner on a Lombardi sweep could make me weep with excitement) I haven’t been following the Favre vs. Thompson story, so much as it’s been following me- in Packer Nation there’s no escaping it. As much as I love #4 (flagged & fined for a chop block-in his 19th season!- ya gotta love the guy), I have to disagree with your thesis a bit. If Brett were still with the Pack, he’d be having a rotten year. The current Packer O-line is so lousy that a much younger & more moblie QB leads the league in sacks. Ryan Grant is a fine RB, but he’s simply no Adrian Peterson, good enough to stop a blitz just by being on the field. Aaron Rogers is pretty much matching #4’s Minnesota numbers, something I doubt #4 could do in Rogers’ position. By the way, has Brett made it through the season intact, yet? He sure didn’t last year.

Anyhow, Drew Brees is this year’s MVP. Selecting Brett would be just a sentimental abomination.

(& yes, I’ll forgive him his apostasy the minute he takes off the Purple Jersey, but not before.)

By: Brian Donovan

Brian Donovan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:27:31 +0000

Well, it’s a little of column A and a little column B. He’s playing well, he’s far less reckless than he’s been in years, but Adrian Peterson makes a huge difference. And he’s got some excellent receivers. Percy Harvin chief among them – who the Patriots tried hard to trade up and grab in this year’s draft…

By: dlampson

dlampson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:59 +0000

“Sadly though, like most things Brett delivers, the trophy will be intercepted en route and returned for a touchdown, putting the perfect exclamation point on The Gunslingers noble career.”

Awesome.

I haven’t been watching his games. (A great intro for a post, I know) Is he actually playing well, or is the offense just that good? Matt Cassel put up some juicy number over ten games last year too, and it may not have been the hall-of-famer in him.