The NFL Voted Wrong

The NFL Voted Wrong!

Favre’s completion percentage this past season was 68.4 percent which was only .4 percent of Peyton Manning’s 68.8 percent. Brett Favre’s passer rating was 7.3 percent higher than Manning’s 99.9 percent and Drew Brees was the only quarterback with a higher passer rating than Brett Favre this year with a passer rating of 109.6.

Brett Favre threw for over 4200 yards while Drew Brees through for over 4300 and Peyton Manning threw for exactly 4500 yards. Although Peyton Manning won the MVP this year, Brett Favre and Drew Brees both were more successful candidates to win MVP. They had less interceptions (Favre – 7, Brees – 11, Manning – 16), better passer ratings (Favre – 107.0, Brees – 109.6, Manning – 99.9), and equal too or more touchdowns (Favre – 33, Brees – 34, Manning – 33).

Peyton Manning had worse numbers this year than he did in 2005 and in 2006, which in those two years he lost the MVP award to Shaun Alexander and LaDanian Tomlinson. This year Peyton Manning didn’t lose to Chris Johnson who was only the 6th running back to rush for more than 2000 yards in the history of the NFL. The NFL MVP has been tied twice throughout the history of the NFL. In 1997 Brett Favre and Barry Sanders were both deserving candidates and both won the MVP. In 2003 Peyton Manning and Steve McNair both won a piece of the award.

This past 2009 was a landslide victory for Peyton Manning who received 39.5 votes, while Drew Brees received 7.5 votes, and Brett Favre and Phillip Rivers only received 1 vote each. There were plenty of deserving candidates playing at the best performance of their careers while Peyton Manning, who won the award, was playing only mediocre for his career. The MVP voters should have taken more thought into the voting system and considered each candidate appropriately. There should have been a tie in the voting before Peyton Manning should have won the award singly.