Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Who Is Really Most Valuable

I don't think there is any doubt that when the NFL mvp award is announced that Peyton Manning will win the award  hands down.  The records he has broken this year and the record his team has who else could it be.

We will for the remainder of this week have to listen to all of the talking heads tell us how good both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are.  If they are far in a way the best of the lot in the NFL just who is the most valuable to his team. I am going to present evidence that is not even close between the two.

In 2011 when Peyton Manning sat out the entire season the Indianapolis Colts went from the division winner to the worse team in the NFL and receiving the number one draft pick.  Peyton Manning was so valuable to the Colts that without  him they were awful.

Tom Brady played less than a half in the first game in the 2008 season.  His replacement Matt Cassell led the Patroits to a 10-5 record the last games of the season.  He had a 88 quarterback rating and by the next season that one year earned him a big time contract with Kansas City.  To say the least Cassell quarterback rating has only been 80 since and Cassell has at best been average NFL quarterback.

I say that Tom Brady has been a by product of the Bill Bellichek system and any quarterback that Bellichek chooses can run the system.  So I think that Brady has had the fortune of being at the right place at the right time. If it wasn't for an injury Tom Brady May have been a lifetime backup.  I am not saying Brady is not one of the top quarterbacks today he is just not the most valuable as perceived by the media.

Today we are heading to Fayetteville to Methodist  College where former Gryphon Tabias Hilliard  is turning into a solid basketball player.  While a member of the 2012 Gryphon state championship Tabias was a point guard that  distributed to others but after a nice freshman year  Hilliard is averaging 9.8 points per game and leading the team in assist with 3.8 per game.  We talked about Tom Brady being at the right place at the right time and Tobias Hilliard has a home in Fayetteville.