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Shaun Alexander Named NFL MVP
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01/05/06 04:40 PM
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Alexander got 19 votes, Peyton Manning 13, Tom Brady 10, and Tiki Barber 6.
Personally, I would have voted for Alexander, Barber, and Brady, in that order.
I'm not sure where I'd place Manning, but he's not in my top three, and I'm not even sure I'd have him as high as 4th.
Alexander was virtually a one man team on offense for Seattle and his unbelievable season led his team to an unbelievable season.
I place Barber second because altho his QB, Eli Manning, had a decent year, including some nice 4th quarter wins, it was only because he had Barber's great year to take the heat off of him.
Without Barber, Manning would have had to throw even more than he did, and with no Barber and Eli throwing 40 passes a game, I think the Giants would have finished somewhere around 6-10, maybe worse, and 7-9 or 8-8 if everything had broken exactly right for them.
Brady held the Pats together in an off year, and was certainly more valuable to his team than Peyton Manning, who had other outstanding offensive weapons, such as Edgarrin James and Marvin Harrison, was to his.
Without Brady, the Pats are just another team that would've gone somewhere between 6-10 and 9-7 or so depending on the breaks and probably out of the Playoffs, but if you put any decent to good quarterback on the Colts - I dunno, a Matt Hasselbeck, an Aaron Brooks, a Drew Bledsoe, a Kerry Collins, I think that with their defense and other weapons, the Colts go about 10-6 or 11-5 or so, and still win their division with ease.
"Difficult....not impossible"
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