Pennington comes in 2nd in MVP voting
by Matty I on Jan 2, 2009 1:31 PM EST
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PrintCongratulations to Chad Pennington!
Sure, it was Peyton Manning who won the MVP award today, gaining 32 of the 50 votes. But Chad picked up 4 votes, which was tied for 2nd place in the balloting.
And just think about that for a moment. A quarterback that the Dolphins signed off of a divisional rival's scrap heap just 4 weeks before the start of the regular season came in 2nd place in the Most Valuable Player voting. Remarkable; truly remarkable.
So Pennington's 2008 looks like this:
- Dumped by his long-time team for the "All-World" QB
- Signed by former team's hated rival
- Leads that team to 11 wins - a 10 win turnaround - and a division title (by beating his former team and their "All-World" in week 17 in front of his former fans)
- Will be the starting QB in a home playoff game
- Wins Comeback Player of the Year
- Comes in 2nd place in MVP voting
Not a bad 4 months for Mr. Pennington, huh? And it's all well-deserved for the "workaholic" QB and offensive captain of the Miami Dolphins!
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Farve needs to back out
just to try to save a little face. He and eveyone in the world knows he doesn’t belong there.
"I told you what it takes to come in here and do what you just did! I told you exactly what it takes. It takes big ones!"
-Tony Sparano
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by Neo on Jan 2, 2009 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
haha seriously
he doesnt belong there AT ALL. both pennington and even rivers deserve a spot on the pro bowl roster.
"And now Chad came back and beat the hell out of them and all of the people who were booing him at home. Chad's not going to say it, but he can tell them to kiss his ass." --Channing Crowder
by el presidente 00 on Jan 2, 2009 4:22 PM EST up reply actions
well I'll move this to this thread
isn’t it funny? By week four, Peyton looked like sh*t and everyone labeled eli as better. I thought MVP was a yearlong award. Peyton is an amazing QB but He really got it going by the 2nd half of the year
but 2nd place is far higher than I expected.
that's not biased
that’s just correct lol
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by Little Nicky 21 on Jan 2, 2009 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
call me a homer
but…..to take over a 1-15 team and lead them to the afc east champioship with no 1000 yrd rusher or receiver and to be 2nd in the NFL in passer rating. theats the mvp to me!!!!!!!
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And that
Is why you don’t get to vote for the MVP.
Seriously, the NFL MVP is for the league’s best player, and that person is Peyton Manning. I know this is a Dolphins blog (and a great one at that) but if you think Chad Pennington is a better player or QB than Peyton Manning, you’re a dumb, retarded idiot. Homerism is great, but when it comes at the expense of OBVIOUS reality, then it just needs to be called out as dumb.
Pennington has done an excellent job rallying the Dolphins this year, along with Joey Porter and the “Wildcat” offense. But if you take Chad Pennington and put him on the Colts, with all the injuries and adversity they’ve faced in 2008, they don’t win 12 games. Maybe 6 or 7.
Take Peyton Manning and put him on your Dolphins and they are 13-3 and are entering these playoffs as the #1 seed.
If you disagree, fine. You’re wrong and don’t know football. Peyton was the obvious MVP candidate (he received 32 first place votes and won the thing in a landslide), and if anyone here can’t see that, I have a bridge I can sell you in Brooklyn.
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Manning did deserve the MVP
But to essentially tout off your opnion as fact is pretty much pointless,
Saying “If You dont agree with me you’re stupid and wrong” is moronic argument to make.
"How can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?"
-From the Unforgiven III off of Death Magnetic
Well
My opinion IS fact. Peyton Manning is the MVP. That is now a fact. And the FACT that he got 32 first placed votes seems to suggest rather strongly that he was the obvious choice for MVP, and any other choice was nothing more than some idiot making a homer pick. Now, homerism is fine, to an extent. But, in this case the MVP was clearly Manning. No doubt. No debate. And if you really thought otherwise, you rally are stupid when it comes to evaluating who the best player is in the NFL.
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"My opinion IS fact."
a statement like that, and your calling us stupid? dude, take yer meds….heres a newsflash for ya… there really is a God, and your not it ! [and neither is Peyton, by golly!]
"I'm not near as deep and complicated as people think" ~Mike Tyson~
you done?
Things slow at your own blogsite today?
"We pride ourselves on playing smart, tough, disiplined football" Chad Pennington 12/28/08
by HuskerDolphin on Jan 2, 2009 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
wait
i wouldn’t call cp10 the second best player in the league and he finished in second…does that mean the writers don’t know what their doing?
peyton played like shit
the first quarter of the season. Its a season award. The world knows Peyton is a top 5 QB all time but what pennington did is far more impressive.
to call us stupid on an assumption you’ve made is moronic
most valuable player
without chad… 1-15
with chad 11-5
he’s the most “valuable” player. Indy’s team still had reggie wayne, rhodes, gonzalez, harrison. if u throw up a ball, chances are someone wearing blue will get it. dolphins… not so much. undrafted rookie (bess) is arguably our best receiver statistically. but congrats to peyton. he did have a fine season as did your colts!
"And now Chad came back and beat the hell out of them and all of the people who were booing him at home. Chad's not going to say it, but he can tell them to kiss his ass." --Channing Crowder
by el presidente 00 on Jan 2, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
haha
Wow. The NFL MVP is for the league’s best player? Really? Wouldn’t that be “Most Outstanding Player” then?
The fact of the matter is that the MVP is for the player who is MOST VALUABLE to his team. It’s NOT for the league’s best player. So perhaps you’re the one who is “wrong and don’t know football.”
So here’s the debate, in my opinion. Which team does better: The Jim Sorgi led Colts or the Chad Henne/John Beck/Josh McCown led Dolphins? Whichever team you think would do worse is the one whose QB should be MVP – because he then is MORE VALUABLE to his team than the other.
Period. End of story. Thanks for stopping by.
Um, no
The MVP is for the most valuable player in the league. Not just their team.
And your question is laughable because it is made moot by my argument: Take Pennington and put him on the Colts, and Manning on the Dolphins. Which team is better?
The MVP is for the league’s best player, which makes that player (drumroll please) the most valuable.
Period. end of story. Thanks for playing.
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LOL
I kept typing “see below” and it would place it at the end of the thread.
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Remember
How much every real dolfan hated this guy when he played for the Jets. It is a testament to him that he was able to come here and bring this team this far. I mean he will never be Dan Marino but I think that its finally for our QB not to be a Dan Marino. I never thought I would say this but I think it is time for me to go buy a Chad Pennington jersey. Regardless of what happens on sunday.
BTW guys
I’m just messing with ya. I’m happy Chad has had his career revitalized in Miami. Just don’t turn on him the way NY fans did.
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just messing?
Are you sure you aren’t bi-polar?
"We pride ourselves on playing smart, tough, disiplined football" Chad Pennington 12/28/08
by HuskerDolphin on Jan 2, 2009 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
go get 'em husk!
"And now Chad came back and beat the hell out of them and all of the people who were booing him at home. Chad's not going to say it, but he can tell them to kiss his ass." --Channing Crowder
by el presidente 00 on Jan 2, 2009 4:30 PM EST up reply actions
I heard a rumor
That you Dolphins fans were “angry” Pennington didn’t get the MVP. I don’t see that here. I wanted to test the rumor. glad it was false (it was from a rival fanbase).
Seriously, I picked you guys to meet my Colts in the AFCCG. So, I must like your team on some level, right?
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ok fair enuf, i take back the 'God' comment...
and in the immortal words of our Pennington-like Blog Leader, Matty I,…
“You can stir a pot.”
hope we see ya in miami in two weeks : )
"I'm not near as deep and complicated as people think" ~Mike Tyson~
however, ...
Husker is right, you may be bi-polar lol
"I'm not near as deep and complicated as people think" ~Mike Tyson~
I'll tell you one thing
You can stir a pot.
Oh – and in our very own SBN blogger awards, CP and PM tied for first in MVP. So us Fin fans aren’t the only ones who think Pennington should be MVP.
Well
Not to bash SB Nation writers too much, but they clearly were not in line with what most of the rest of the known civilized world knew: Peyton Manning is the MVP.
Also, don’t under estimate the “Manning haters.” Lots of SB Nation writers despise Manning because he owns their team. Those people selected Pennington.
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Maybe
But I think the problem lies in what the MVP award is about. How is it defined? That’s where the debate lies.
Definition
I always go back to the term: National Football League Most Valuable Player. To me, it says the league’s most valuable player, aka the best one.
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you don't understand the word valuable then do you?
Because, by your logic, Manning wasn’t the best QB in the league. Phillip Rivers and Drew Brees both had better seasons. Manning won the award because he took a 3-4 team with some key injuries and put them on his back to the playoffs. He deserved the award, no doubt. But to call somebody’s opinion stupid and moronic because he thinks Pennington was more deserving is ignorant.
And please don’t act like a collection of writers belief’s are in line with the rest of “known civilized world.” Many ESPN readers voted for Chad. Half of the bloggers on SBN voted for Pennington. A good portion of writers and tv personalities voted for Pennington, but their votes don’t count when giving the award. Please don’t act like nobody’s opinion but your own matters.
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by Little Nicky 21 on Jan 2, 2009 5:27 PM EST up reply actions
It seems to me
that the key word is “valuable”. Insomuch as the NFL is comprised of teams, the value of a player must be calculated with respect to his team’s success; it is not simply awarded to the player with the best stats. As such, PC10’s value to the Fins’ success certainly rivals Manning’s value to the Colts’ success.
The voting should have been much closer, in my opinion.
nah
I want them in the AFC Championship game so Pennington can once again prove people wrong and beat this year’ MVP. He already beat 2 of the 3 Pro Bowl QB’s in the AFC, only one left is Peyton.
"Are we doing this? Is this happening?"
by Little Nicky 21 on Jan 2, 2009 6:51 PM EST up reply actions
Ravens
Pennington will need to make plays with his arm for Miami to beat the Ravens. Peyton crushed them back in October, scorching their secondary for 3 TDs in a 31-3 romp.
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Peyton Manning is a "Coach Killer"....
meaning, the Colts hold him on a higher pedistal than coach Dungy. If he loses
their not going to pin a losing season on him, they will pin it on poor coaching and
play calling and whatever else. I get so sick of hearing how great he is …. I’m just so
glad that Zach Thomas broke his big old clunk head jaw. I think Eli is way better….
and Peyton will end up making Dungy retire a forgotten coach because of his big ego
So go stir the pot in your own kitchen Little blue swuede shoesy woozy’s
Jimbo
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by AussieColtsFan on Jan 3, 2009 8:50 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t think it was as close as it probably should’ve been.
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by Linix129 on Jan 2, 2009 7:21 PM EST reply actions
Damn, that's the last time i post on my lunch break again!!!!!!!!!
i got ripped and wasnt even here to defend myself. thanks for having my back guys.
IAMLEGEND
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