I don’t disagree! And I hope he will be!

Better than their record: Buffalo Bills & Atlanta Falcons

Worse than their record: Pittsburgh Steelers & Philadelphia Eagles

Appreciate that!

Not sure why you’re getting down-voted - those are valid points.

I’d say in terms of weaponry, it’s pretty even, because it’s almost a mirror image in terms of a reliable tight-end but otherwise role players at the WR position, who have been highly inconsistent. Either way, one doesn’t really stand above the other.

I can point to two legitimately bad games played by Mahomes, which I can’t say for Lamar. How he’s clowned three of the premier defenses coming into those matchups - the Browns, Lions and Seahawks - making tremendous individiual plays in all of them has been special. The raw passing numbers are not as high up for Lamar, but that’s more based on him playing as well early, that he’s been able to sit out multiple fourth quarters.

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As for CMC, he is a major component of the passing game and even when he’s not involved in the pattern, the advantageous looks they get on early downs in particular, because opponents have to honor the run game makes a big difference. I’d also argue that the success rate and EPA would be higher if they didn’t blow out most opponents early on and were trying to grind away games.

But yeah, to me there’s a pretty clear trio at the top and I think you can make case for either one of them.

You can certainly argue for other guys based on limited usage, but I didn’t want to punish him for the coach’s decision. When he’s been on the field, he’s absolutely been a difference-maker.

Same idea as Geno again. I’m just really starting to hate this award. Why not introduce something like “Most Improved Player” like the NBA hands out every year?

“Coming back” from sitting on the bench just doesn’t make any sense to me and that shouldn’t be the spirit of the award.

He’s probably going to win, but I’d just rather this award not be handed out at all, if it has basically nothing to do with on-field performance.

So who is the MVP in your eyes? Raw yardage and touchdown stats don’t mean anything to me without context. When Lamar is so phenomenal that his team blows out opponents and he’s sitting out fourth quarters rather than amassing numbers in catch-up mode, why would we count that against him?

Oh yeah, he could absolutely. Just couldn’t ignore the first month of the season for the purpose of this list, when that makes up half the sample size.

At this point, I wouldn’t change the award itself, because of the history of the award. Rather making OPOY exclusively non-QB or introducing something like “Most Outstanding Player” for the top performer overall would make sense.

Never even had it planned, but it’s an insane division and that’s without even talking about arguably the most dangerous teams coming up in the Bengals. Lol

Lol, love that phrasing and thanks!

From a betting perspective, that’s what it looks like right now. And yeah, I’d feel worse for Crosby if he didn’t legitimately seem to love being a Raider.

Thank you very much!

He’s accounted for 14 TDs and leads the way for an offense that ranks 7th in EPA per play, despite having one reliable pass-catcher in Mark Andrews, making special plays in and out of structure to elevate that unit. Stop just looking at the raw stats.