Tom Brady Was Not The Players’ MVP
February 6th, 2022
Was it Tom Brady fatigue or just quarterback fatigue?
Later this week the NFL will name its official 2021 season MVP, the award voted on by the esteemed Associated Press panel (there are ex-players and coaches on the media-dominated panel; Sage Ira Kaufman, the JoeBucsFan.com columnist, is the only voter from the Tampa region).
Aaron Rodgers is considered the favorite over Tom Brady. The votes are cast just after the regular season.
So who do NFL stars consider the league MVP? Pay-per-view website TheAthletic.com surveyed about 20 players at Pro Bowl practice last week to get their answer.
The winner was Colts running back Jonathan Taylor, the NFL’s leading rusher. He got eight votes. Rodgers was second with five and Brady took third with three. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow got two votes.
Joe is not surprised. Players know best that the NFL is a team game and not a quarterback contest.
Taylor was a worthy candidate with 372 touches this season leading to 20 touchdowns and 2,177 yards from scrimmage. That’s why Joe would have picked Taylor of Rams receiver Cooper Kupp, who fewer yards and less than half the touches.
It would be nice if Brady wins, but Joe isn’t passionate about the result.
February 6th, 2022 at 9:53 am
It would be nice if Brady wins, but Joe isn’t passionate about the result.
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Is that apathy or acceptance?
February 6th, 2022 at 10:02 am
Headline is a little confusing. Should say:
There is absolutely nothing confusing about this headline. –Joe
“Pro Bowl participants choose their starting RB teammate as league MVP (Brady and Rodgers opt out of Pro Bowl)”
February 6th, 2022 at 10:14 am
Most Valuable Player is based on what a player does for his team. There is not one player even close to Brady in the influence he had on this team not only the offense but also elevating the defense and even the coaching staff this not even taking in consideration his stats which were better than his contemporaries. Not giving him the MVP would be a discrimination against the League and the premise of the award itself.
February 6th, 2022 at 10:30 am
When we get Bridgewater it’s gonna be pretty obvious how valuable Brady was to this team for the last two years.
February 6th, 2022 at 10:57 am
Agree with Ron.
February 6th, 2022 at 11:10 am
Joe, I beg to differ. The headline is confusing and misleading.
The way it reads, it implies that the entire league of players think that Brady wasn’t the MVP. In fact when it was only 20 players at the Pro Bowl that were polled. An event Jonathan Taylor attended but Brady and Rogers opted out of.
Indeed the headline is so confusing that one might infer that the Buccaneers players themselves didn’t think Brady was the MVP of their own team. I’m sure I’m not in the minority despite what you think about your writing.
February 6th, 2022 at 11:15 am
That’s what the MVP is Ron, not the league MVP. Like dumbass pro bowl bets. Devin White is seriously over there?
And those guys and voting for some kinda blue eye, blonde hair player like Brady, Rodgers, and Kupp lol. Even though those guys carry their teams deep into the playoffs and Super Bowl. Stupid.
February 6th, 2022 at 11:30 am
lol so 32 teams x the full rosters were polled lol oh right a handful of players.
Yeah right I am taking Taylor over Brady or Rodgers, NOT!!!!!!!
Put Taylor on the Bucs and it still does not make the Bucs roster a threat to win it all, but Brady does.
Reality Check, Taylor is not the difference in winning a Super Bowl, But Brady is.
Laughable poll just plain laughable
GO BUCS!!!!!
February 6th, 2022 at 11:48 am
I still don’t understand why Aaron Rodgers should be the MVP. Based on what, an obscure TD to INT ratio? Tom Brady has a historic season. Cooper Kupp had a historic season. Both of them are more powerful influences on their teams during the regular season. Those two are far more deserving of an MVP vote than Rodgers. All too often the writers who cover the NFL become an echo chamber.
February 6th, 2022 at 11:58 am
People that believe Tom retired because of family hasn’t really done their research and so tired of Giselle playing super mom. She’s gone just as much as Tom and those kids are Nannied !!! He picked the Bucs because of how talented they were and in a year or two will do the same with another team, but it makes me sick that he let Mike Evans, Lavonte, the O line, staff ( minus BA ) and the organization down because he quit and lost belief in a organization that would do anything for him !! He talks about honor and respect and can’t finish a contract ? He leaves still being one of the best, but he’s all about the brand and no one can tell me he retired because of family. Those kids have the life and after watching the SB highlights and ring ceremony it makes me sick and yes I respect Tom and what he’s done, but I don’t like what he did to our organization by doing what he did !! That’s not loyalty
February 6th, 2022 at 12:03 pm
Please..You don’t know that Yucto Buc, What you are sayin is pure speculation..just like the rest of us. So I’ll add my 2 cents. Brady retired
because he is Smart. How about that? Why would I stay and play when I have done it all? He went out on top and not crippled on the field of battle. if that ain’t smart then what is. Be happy for him.
February 6th, 2022 at 12:07 pm
Mike you must not be a Bucs fan and just a Tom fan because you call his play going out on top ? Then he would have retired last year, but honor your contract especially when this organization would do anything for him? You said we want to see him leave on a stretcher? He was the least hit QB in the league ( minus one game ) but all I’m saying is when he comes back with another team I hope your opinion changes and you realize it’s all about Tom
And his image
February 6th, 2022 at 12:14 pm
At 44, Brady has already accomplished more than any player in the 102-year history of the NFL, and with cap and roster issues going forward, and with the Tampa futures of Chris Godwin and Rob Gronkowski both in doubt, 2022 could be a frustrating year for a Tampa Bay quarterback. I also think as much as Brady didn’t love Bill Belichick at the end, he respected that he’d always have a coaching/personnel plan to keep the team in Super Bowl contention. I don’t know that he feels that way about the Bucs’ ability to stay dominant. That’s the real reason he retired from the Bucs
February 6th, 2022 at 12:29 pm
Get some mental health help YutoBucs. I’ve read a lot of your ranting post. Let it go. Brady is gone. Embrace it. OHhh and I’ve been a bucs fans since the team inception and attended those 0-16 seasons and barely winning seasons. So don’t even try it..Sir.
February 6th, 2022 at 12:31 pm
YucToBucs … I could see being disappointed in Tom Brady if you were a Patriots fan (after all, he did play for them for 20 years). But Bucs’ fans really have no cause to feel that Brady let them down IMO because of what he accomplished here in only 2 years. He’d be 45 before Game 1 this season, and I kinda think that he earned the right to decide when he was gonna retire. I’m just happy that we got 2 years out of him. Two amazing years I might add.
February 6th, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Cooper Kupp is it to me. Althoughit’s easier when the defensive coordinator decides to not cover him at all.
February 6th, 2022 at 1:07 pm
Brady’s initial contract with the Bucs was 2 years. It was extended and renegotiated much like many of his contracts in New England. He does this to allow more $$ under the cap to retain other players. Brady did meet his initial contract expectations and also renegotiated and extended the contract so they could re-sign many of the free agents from last year.
February 6th, 2022 at 1:12 pm
Mike Johnson,
The Bucs never had a 0-16 season.
February 6th, 2022 at 2:11 pm
Yucto, you’re half right. Ben agrees, he didn’t retire because of family. He gets six months off a year, and is on the road like what, ten weeks? It’s an absurd argument. As for his real reason for retiring, it was because of a lack of faith in the organization. But the bucs had a choice. They knew he wasn’t happy with the lack of prep, and lackadaisical coaching. The bucs could’ve done things to try and keep him. First, get rid of Arians and the entire staff. You’re telling me you’d rather have BA than a guy like Josh McDaniels, or Billy O’Brien? At least you would’ve had some accountability, and Brady could’ve focused on simply playing QB. Arians isn’t a long term solution anyway, so what do they have to lose, expect the greatest player the sport has ever seen.
As for what Brady “did” to your organization. He only won a Superbowl, made tens of millions for the ownership, and brought the laughing stock of the league, into legitimacy. Be thankful for what he “did” to the organization. The teams owes arians nothing. They won in spite of him last year. Instead of being mad at Brady for not fulfilling his deal, be made at the bucs for not doing enough to convince him to stay.
February 6th, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Perhaps Mike meant 0-26 seasons since it occurred over two seasons.
February 6th, 2022 at 2:31 pm
Thanks there SS76. We were losing so much back then, Me and my dad would go to the games knowing we were not going to win. He’d just sit there drink beer and curse at our Bucs. I stopped counting the losses.
February 6th, 2022 at 4:09 pm
YucktoBuc you don’t know Mike Johnson well because don’t recall seeing you post until this season anyways but I might be wrong. He has never been a Brady fan but more of a Winston fan instead. You absolutely sound like one of those stalker dudes inventing reasons not to let go of a girlfriend. Brady fulfilled his contract to the Bucs and did all that was asked of him and then some. He owed us nothing because he gave everything a qb could. It might be true speculation but I believe the coaches kind of let him down especially in the Rams game but Arians lack of discipline was already there for Brady to see before he signed so no way it could be unexpected or a reason to retire, so let Brady go without the hate. He don’t owe you anything
February 6th, 2022 at 4:22 pm
bqGwen please go stay on Brady’s MySpace, Twitter and Facebook page as well as the Patriots websites. You’re no Buc fan and we don’t need to see the idiotic, stupid, moronic and imbicilic misspelling of your name and worthless thoughts up here. We understand you’re a Brady jock sniffer and your life, every breath you take and every thought you have revolves around him bur we don’t. Nobody cares about you or what you agree with other than you leaving this Bucs fans website. Doesn’t matter if you go away mad . . . . . . just go away
February 6th, 2022 at 10:16 pm
MJ,
I was there with my dad too, I guess I just have a better memory than you Old Timer.
😉
February 7th, 2022 at 12:02 am
One of the dumbest opinions out there that I heard is that Rodgers is the MVP, because when he didn’t play vs KC, they looked like crap.
Really?
So these same people think that if Gabbert started, no one would have noticed that Brady wasn’t there? LOL!
February 7th, 2022 at 3:34 am
SufferingSince76 Says:
February 6th, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Perhaps Mike meant 0-26 seasons since it occurred over two seasons.
0-14, 0-12 and then a BIG 2-0 finish to 1977 with wins over the Saints and a
“storm the field and tear down the goal post” first ever win at home win against Cards. lol lol
GO BUCS!!!!!!
February 8th, 2022 at 4:40 am
Ben queen, get to your search bar and type in “patriots fan site” off you go
February 8th, 2022 at 6:57 am
Swap Buc is right about the defensive coordinator.
Bridgewater ??? He did so well for the Jets, yeah right.
Bridgewater is a good back up. As is in backing up Kyle Trask.p