So many people are blathering on about how Aaron had a better season than Drew...

Think of it this way.

Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers are both plenty valuable to their teams.

But imagine the Saints without Brees.

They could still play smashmouth football with PT/Ivory/Sproles/Ingram, and still win at least 9 games on that alone. (Easy, CP.)

Now..imagine Green Bay without Rodgers.

(Or…New England without Brady.)

Enough said.

Brees should get Offensive Player of the Year. Rodgers, however, earned the MVP.

..about having Drew Brees on this team and riding his arm to another Super Bowl. But, it’s nice to know that we have that sledgehammer as backup.

Rodgers should be MVP. Brees should be Offensive Player of the Year.

regarding the purpose of the MVP award. It should be for the Most Valuable Player of the League. In fact, the same same argument you bring up was given as to why Peyton Manning got MVP in 2009 and Drew didn’t (“the Saints have all of those defensive takeaways and defensive scores…what would the Colts be without Manning? Peyton is much more valuable to the Colts…”) Part of the problem though is how does one definitively prove a player’s worth to their team? I will be interested to see how they justify whatever choice is made…

Do y’all remember when LSU and Southern Cal split the national championship in 2003? Except…no, wait: Southern Cal wasn’t even at the stadium when LSU defeated Oklahoma. They won a poll.

Same thing here. I agree with Jimbo03: this is just a matter of opinion. The MVP isn’t some sort of official stat…its an opinion poll, and the only people allowed to vote are the same sports pundits we routinely characterize as idiots and retards. So who cares? If they give it to Drew, I’ll say good, it was deserved, and so what: we have bigger prizes to concentrate on.

On the other hand, defensive turnovers — and especially defensive scores — often are the outright difference between victory in defeat in something like 90+% of games.

Laughable. Not even close to the difference maker a balanced offensive attack is.

Obviously our defense has been stepping up in the last few weeks. But GB has had this all season long. We’ve only had it some of the time.

Green Bay is 31st overall on defense. The Saints are 26th overall. Their turnover ratio is better, in part because Rodgers hasn’t thrown as many INTs. Child, please @ season long advantages.

It’s another voting situation…this isn’t a Board of Governors sitting around a conference room deciding by consensus or group discussion, then a vote who’s going to be the 2011 NFL MVP, it’s decided by a secret (?) ballot of a panel of voters who mail (email), or point and click their votes, who are pretty much voting independently of each other.

What criteria are they given for this vote? How many people vote and who are they, exactly, and when will they vote?

Nobody really knows who’s going to get it until all the votes are tabulated, or what the mindset of every single voter is when they make their individual decisions and vote…although it does seem that some of mainstream narrative is that A-Rodg has had a better year statistically and his team has won more games, so it’s his award, but as I said above, the votes haven’t been counted and you won’t be able to know what each voter uses in his/her mind to choose a winner.

Oh I’m sorry, he’s got a few less interceptions and a few more TD’S. The rest of the stats (the majority) doesn’t matter. That’s funny. I bet you take a survey and ask the fans throughout the nation who they’d prefer watching, Brees or Rodgers, their answer would be Brees. It would be a legal poll with no jealous coaches, players, or so called professional know it alls.

The playoffs will decide this issue. Unfortunately, I think the MVP vote is before that, which in this case is wrong. It’s clearly between Brres and Rodgers IMO and although I want to give it to Brees, it’s hard to ignore that Rodgers basically threw 1 INT per month which is amazing.

But, after the NFC Championship, one quaterback max will be left standing. I think the MVP should go to the QB who takes his team the furthest unless one of those 2 QBs clearly plays significantly better than the other. It will be much less of a debateable issue most likely when the plaoffs get to that point. That’s when they should vote.

Since the playoffs are part of the season, they should matter as far as MVP voting is concerned because things can change in 3 games very easily.

But would it be helpful here to throw around some of the same MVP arguments from Michael Jordan’s heyday in the NBA?

Does he make the players around him better? Where would the team be without him?