Why Aaron Rodgers should be named the MVP without any doubt- NFL Feature
With every season of the National Football League, we have one player who stands out, head and shoulders above the rest with his quality and skills.
This year, there is none better than Green Bay Packers' quarterback, Aaron Rodgers.
Sure, there are other players whose consistency and penchant for doing something special that gives their team victory after victory, players such as New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees, New England Patriots' Tom Brady and we even have messiahs this year like
Denver Broncos' Tim Tebow, but no one, and I mean no one, provides the drive like Rodgers does for Packers.
Rodgers has had an unbelievable season. He has made 45 scoring passes for touchdowns and covered 4,643 passing yards, leading the Packers offense to the top of the scoring charts with an average of 34 points per game.
However, this is not what makes Rodgers the best.
His accuracy with the pass and his vision during the game are matchless. The quarterback has thrown just six interceptions this year. SIX!! That is an unbelievable statistic if one looks at the number of passes that Rodgers has thrown.
The quarterback attempted 502 passes and with just six intercepted during the course of 15 games that he played this season that alone should make Rodgers a shoo-in for the Most Valuable Player award.
The Packers could not have maintained the long unbeaten run in the season without Rodgers pulling strings at offense.
The Packers have one of the worst defences in the league this year and since no team except for the Kansas City Chiefs outscored the Packers in 2011, the failure has not received as much criticism as it merits.
Some analysts and fans have been calling for New Orleans Saints quarterback, Drew Brees, to be declared a joint Most Valuable player along with Rodgers, but that would be a big injustice!
Brees holds the highest number of touchdown passes with 46 and has also broken NFL legend, Dan Marino’s passing yards record with 5,476 yards.
But here is how Rodgers has an edge over Brees: Rodgers has played one game less than Brees. Along with that the Packers have not started their postseason yet.
Rodgers also has been sacked more than Brees with 36 to Brees’s 24. Just imagine what Rodgers could have achieved if the Packers quarterback had the support of two of the best Guards in the league as the Saints Carl Nicks and Jahri Evans,
Rodgers is more accurate than Brees since the Saints quarterback has 14 interceptions this year and Rodgers 122.5 rating to Brees’s 110.6 is testament to the fact that Rodgers has had a much better season.
Even the senior journalists and analysts thought so too when they voted for the Associated Press All-Pro team on Friday, January 6th 2012.
Rodgers received 47 votes from the 50-member panel who voted to Drew Brees’s three further securing Rodgers position for the Most Valuable Player title.
Rodgers is a big game player and when the Packers finally start on the road to the Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants on Sunday, January 15th 2012, it will not be a big surprise to see Rodgers out pass their opponents once again.
If we get down to the numbers and the impact made on a team, then simply Aaron Rodgers deserves the title of Most Valuable Player. He not only had a brilliant season in 2011 but was the fulcrum of the Packers 2010 Super Bowl winning season.
The Green Bay Packers are a good team, but it is Aaron Rodgers’s brilliance which makes them great.
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