Fox Sports: MVP will be Rodgers

Post #1 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sun Sep 6, 2009 1:28 pm

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/10 ... ?GT1=39002

MikeIsGood · Post #2 » by **MikeIsGood** » Sun Sep 6, 2009 6:23 pm

Wojciechowski likes him as the runner-up:

9. MVP finalists
San Diego's Philip Rivers, New Orleans' Drew Brees, Brady, Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers and Forte.

Not a Cash for Clunker in the bunch. If Peterson isn't the guy, Rodgers will be. He might put up 2008 Brees-like numbers. Then again, so might Brees.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/ ... ortCat=nfl

A Diddy2231 · Post #3 » by **A Diddy2231** » Sun Sep 6, 2009 6:41 pm

Read through the Foxsports article and some of the responses to the article and one of the responses caught my eye

"wow! is this guy off....Rodgers is a soft, journeyman-like qb who single-handedly destroyed a super-bowl ready team...."

Can you possibly be this delusional???

SteveScheffler · Post #4 » by **SteveScheffler** » Sun Sep 6, 2009 8:05 pm

A Diddy2231 wrote:Read through the Foxsports article and some of the responses to the article and one of the responses caught my eye

"wow! is this guy off....Rodgers is a soft, journeyman-like qb who single-handedly destroyed a super-bowl ready team...."

Can you possibly be this delusional???

brett favre wrote that

Flames24Rulz · Post #5 » by **Flames24Rulz** » Sun Sep 6, 2009 9:44 pm

SteveScheffler wrote:
A Diddy2231 wrote:Read through the Foxsports article and some of the responses to the article and one of the responses caught my eye

"wow! is this guy off....Rodgers is a soft, journeyman-like qb who single-handedly destroyed a super-bowl ready team...."

Can you possibly be this delusional???

brett favre wrote that

Who?

rilamann · Post #6 » by **rilamann** » Sun Sep 6, 2009 11:00 pm

The MVP talk is pretty cool to hear but not really surprising,hell I picked Rodgers to be in the MVP race in the preseason edition thread.

Really all Rodgers has to do to have a shot at MVP is improve his numbers just a bit which is pretty safe to say he will in his 2nd season as starter.Then of course the other that has to happen is the Packers have to win.

I think if Rodgers stays healthy and the Pack win the north and end up with the #1 or #2 seed in the playoffs Rodgers will either win it or be very very close.

One of the things I like about Rodgers looking like a top QB this early in his career is the fact other teams and their fans (especially Vikings & Bears) are probably pissed as hell.

We have Favre for 16 seasons and when he retired you know people where thinking ''good that will be the demise of the Packers,now we can get our revenge for them beating up on us all those years''.

Looks like those people better think again.

Ssnake · Post #7 » by **Ssnake** » Mon Sep 7, 2009 12:22 am

Flames24Rulz wrote:
SteveScheffler wrote:
A Diddy2231 wrote:Read through the Foxsports article and some of the responses to the article and one of the responses caught my eye

"wow! is this guy off....Rodgers is a soft, journeyman-like qb who single-handedly destroyed a super-bowl ready team...."

Can you possibly be this delusional???

brett favre wrote that

Who?

He fat-fingered it since I am certain he meant "Brent."

Newz · Post #8 » by **Newz** » Mon Sep 7, 2009 12:24 am

I would say that there is a possibility that Rodgers wins MVP, I think he's in the top 10. I wouldn't put him as my number 1 prediction though.

El Duderino · Post #9 » by **El Duderino** » Mon Sep 7, 2009 1:06 am

rilamann wrote:The MVP talk is pretty cool to hear but not really surprising,hell I picked Rodgers to be in the MVP race in the preseason edition thread.

Really all Rodgers has to do to have a shot at MVP is improve his numbers just a bit which is pretty safe to say he will in his 2nd season as starter.Then of course the other that has to happen is the Packers have to win.

I think if Rodgers stays healthy and the Pack win the north and end up with the #1 or #2 seed in the playoffs Rodgers will either win it or be very very close.

One of the things I like about Rodgers looking like a top QB this early in his career is the fact other teams and their fans (especially Vikings & Bears) are probably pissed as hell.

We have Favre for 16 seasons and when he retired you know people where thinking ''good that will be the demise of the Packers,now we can get our revenge for them beating up on us all those years''.

Looks like those people better think again.

People can debate all they want about how good of a GM Thompson is, but that draft choice of Rodgers i think is appreciated by many, but also many underestimate of just how huge that pick was though.

While the Packers have pretty good overall talent on the roster, pretend Rodgers wasn't here and instead Brohm, Flynn, Orton, or any number of other just holding the spot level of QB was in place instead of Aaron. The Packers instantly go from a legit contender to win the NFC to a team with at best faint hopes to win the Wild Card.

Many franchises go 10-20 years without having a top 5ish QB and that severely inhibits those teams ability to field consistently good teams. The importance of quarterbacks in the NFL can't be understated. Look at how many teams had long runs of good success while being lead by a franchise QB and then that guy retires, boom, they suck for years straight or are mediocre at best. For the Packers to be able to transition right from Favre into a Rodgers caliber player is something that rarely ever happens in this league.

That pick by Ted along with McCarthy being a good teacher of quarterbacks was a franchise changing move so long as bad health doesn't derail his career. It will allow TT and any other GM the next 5 plus years to put a team with a chance to contend for playoff berths in most or all seasons so long as the roster around Aaron is at least decent.