a Super Bowl. Now, the NFL did something yesterday they've
never done before they've announced finalists, for
the major awards that will be handed out the night before
the Super Bowl.
There's never been an effort to identify finalists. And the one
thing that I disagree with how they did it, because it just
kind of showed up out of the blue yesterday for the first
one. I think it was comeback player of the year but I'm not
100% sure. They dumped all of them in like 45 minutes.
Take your time, you could have you Used like a whole week.
Like One A Day to a day,
agree. Have some build up who will be the finalist for
offensive player of the year. Tune into good morning football
tomorrow morning to find out. I mean they just
unloaded it. You've got to have an element
of drama and you've got to have an element of Engagement. You
can't just throw them all out there and have everybody try to
figure out what's going on. It's not it doesn't make any
sense, so maybe they'll do that next year.
I was surprised they did. I had no idea they were doing it and
let's start with coach. Year, the three finalists, Bryant
a ball, the Giants, Doug Peterson, the Jaguars Cal.
Shannon 49ers
Seahawks players were pissed off the Pete. Carroll wasn't
one of them. I got it.
This is the toughest one. There is any of coaches who deserve
consideration, because plenty of coaches, did better than we
ever thought they would do this year. Yeah, that's right on
the, you know, next arianny. Of course, it's a
phenomenal job. The problem that hurts him as like we
always talked about. You know, everybody expected the Eagles
to be damn good. And damn, there's a lot of value. When
you do have the bullseye on and the fact that he is still
deliver that way.
I think we kind of like swipe that under the rug a little too
much, but you're right. I think is the hardest year ever.
I really have no problem with any three of them winning it.
I don't, I mean, of course Peterson and de-ball have
the great
thing of going like, none of us saw that happening.
None of us. But you know, the Shanahan side of the story is,
you know, we knew they were going to be good,
but do we know that we're going to be going like, hey, it's
the Wild Card round and the 49ers Ours, were the third-string
quarterback, or maybe the best team in football, or the most
dominant team in football, the last eight weeks of
the regular season with a third-string quarterback. So
that to me does make it very interesting, you know, I don't
feel like Shanahan's gonna win it by what I hear from public
sentiment, but
I don't think he's quite getting the credit. He should
be. I know they were going to be good. We know, they expected
them to be damn good, but not this way in this fashion.
I think that's where,
you know, it makes it a little bit more of an interesting
conversation as well.
One of the reasons they're able to do finalist this year, this
is the first year in which the voters listed, more than one
person, right? Past years. It was coach of the year. One
named MVP one name
every award. One name, now it's 3
for all the awards except MVP
which Hive, right? Five and for me
and so
to further delegitimize, the AP Awards, both Chris and I had
votes this year, which really is astounding, I mean in this
business too,
20 freaking years,
I'm not complaining, they finally gave it to me, but I'd
like to think I did enough to earn it before this year, but
I'm glad to have it and I voted de-ball. Shanahan,
Sean McDermott is my 1 2 and 3. I'll I'll be willing to give
free full transparency to what my ballot was. So I got two out
of the three, right? And I would have had Peterson is
number four, if it would have gone to number four,
you know? I, I did. I had the three, the three we got here,
I did and I'm not going to lie, I had Kyle. Shanahan has one
I do. I know there's a part of me to the things he got ripped
off two years ago when John Harbaugh. Got it in a year
where we were, like we knew the Ravens in the Baltimore Ravens,
Lamar Jackson, we're going to be good,
you know? And then there was the 49ers who went to the Super
Bowl. So I went with him but that was like definitely
the toughest one. I mean, if I could have done 1A 1B and 1C,
that's the kind of feel I had there, they all are phenomenal,
they really are and all deserving of the award.
MVP, finalists five were announced because again, we
voted for five. Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe
Borough, Jalen hurts. Just in Jefferson Jefferson at one
point may have had a shot at winning it, but he didn't set
the single-season receiving yardage record
and the Vikings kind of tailed off down the stretch finishes,
the three. See, if they've been the to see need broken, that
record, it would have been interesting Mahomes. I think
gets it because Mahomes was the overwhelming choice for All-Pro
quarterback
as first teamer.
Yeah. Jalen hurts was the second Stringer. So I think
Mahomes
it became likely when they announced the old protein that
he's going to be the MVP. And it'll be interesting to see how
the voting goes behind him. I think it'll be Mahomes hurts,
bro. Alan I have a feeling that's the way it's going to
go.
Yeah, I wouldn't be shocked. I think that's probably the way
it will go to. I would think it's Mahomes all the way as far
as who wins the award
again. Yeah, 41 touchdowns throwing the football. All
another four or five, rushing the football.
Right. And then again, it's a team that's based around his
talents and what he does and he played phenomenal this year, as
we know. And then there was
hey, Mike, my Mahomes, isn't any good without Tyree kill.
I mean, he's no good.
I mean, it's just if he doesn't have Tyree kill, I don't even
know if he's like a top-10 quarterback. I mean BS, right?
So he's wins the MVP for me, for sure.
One seed in the AFC one seed in the NFC Mahomes hurts that's
usually where the MVP comes from. One of those two
quarterbacks and I believe it will be Mahomes comeback Player
of the Year finalist. This one was interesting to me because
I tried to vote
in the three spot for Brian Robinson. The Commander's
running back who was shot through the knee in late August
and came back and had a very good rookie season. They
rejected my ballot on that point because the rules
prohibit rookies, right? From being voted comeback player
of the year that rule may change and that rule needs to
change because it's not just coming back from what happened
last year. It can be coming back from anything.
Any type of adversity
that you come back from, so a rookie should be able to get
that award. The three are say Quan Berkeley. Christian
McCaffrey Geno Smith and Geno. Smith is Sharon Williams. Would
say,
shouldn't be considered because
you shouldn't give the award to someone in shireen's
phrase. Who is coming back from sucking,
its should be coming back from injury or some other real
adversity, know. So, I discovered that I disagree with
that Gino was my pick. I mean, he's not coming back from
sucking.
He's coming back from Team, sucking and listening to Fan bases
and all the other b******* that goes on in football,
that's the problem. It's everybody else sucking and not
giving a guy that deserves the chance a chance. That's
the problem. Gino to me was the comeback Player of the Year.
Come on, it haven't played football. I'm 10 years and he
was the number two rated quarterback in the game.
My argument is different than shireen's because again that's
her not me yeah I got argument is how can be comeback player
of the year when you never had a standard that you're coming
back to like yeah I got Matthew Stafford in 2011,
he was never great. It was just his first great year. Was like
his breakout year house. He comeback player of the year.
They're looking at doing most improved player,
which is different, okay,
coming back from some sort of adversity. So,
most improved would be a category from somebody who
takes it next level, and maybe that would have been Geno
Smith. either way, those are the
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