WEBVTT - Bills By The Numbers: MVP Race Is Heating Up 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.080 Mary Christmas, everybody. Welcome to Bill's by the Numbers, where 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:05.720 we let the stats tell you where the Bills are at. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.240 We're presented by fand we'll make every moment more coming 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.079 your way. The NFL MVP race is heating up in 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.440 the wake of Josh Allen's recent second half play does 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.920 he have a shot at repeating? And James Cook is 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.799 breathing down Jonathan Taylor's neck for the rushing title. Is 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.240 Offensive Player of the Year in the cards for him, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.640 and we'll have our one burning question. Time to hop 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:46.199 on the one horse open sleigh. Welcome to this holiday 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:47.640 edition of Bills by the Numbers. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:48.640 He is Bill's Hall of Famous. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.120 He'saster of Bill's played by playman Chris Brown, and he 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.800 was once considered a non factor, but the unicorn of 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.800 unicorns has entered the chats. Reigning MVP Josh Allen, with 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.160 his back to back fourth quarter comeback performances in wins 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.280 over Cincinnati and New England, has vaulted himself into the 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:14.000 conversation of league MVP. It had largely been deemed a 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.920 two horse race by most handicappers who had the Rams, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.839 Matthew Stafford and the Patriots Drake May as the favorites 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.480 for the League's Most Valuable Player, and deservedly so. Those 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.280 two quarterbacks have been remarkably efficient and productive, and their 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.440 teams have been in contention for the one seed in 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.160 the playoffs for their respective conferences. But in the last 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.200 three games, Josh Allen has accounted for nine touchdowns and 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.200 three straight victories, including a road win at New England 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.640 to overcome a twenty one point deficit, matching the largest 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.200 road comeback in Bill's team history. Prior to the Thursday 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.720 night game between the Rams and Seahawks in Week sixteen, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.920 Allen had pulled even with Matthew Stafford for the most 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.920 total touchdownsty seven. May is a distant seventh with twenty seven. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.720 Should scoring ability be the top factor? Steve in the 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.240 equation of determining league MVP. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.600 I think it's just part of the equation. You'll get 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.600 to it in a minute. I think you have to 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.800 look across the spectrum of how quarterbacks are evaluated wins, losses, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.120 how high towards the top of the rankings are they 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.360 in the positive rankings and how high are they in 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.760 the negatives. I mean, two years ago, Josh Allen was 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.639 disqualified from it, even though he had a monster season 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.400 because he had more He had eighteen interceptions. Other guys 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.920 have won the MVP with way more interceptions than that handful, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.280 more interceptions than that, most notably Kurt Warner in one 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.960 of his MVP seasons, he had twenty three interceptions. They 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.320 threw it a lot, So I think it's got to 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.200 be Obviously, it's got to be in the equation. But 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.280 I think when you look at it, I think you 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.120 look at the broad spectrum of how we evaluate quarterbacks. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:07.240 Like I said, win losses, completion percentage, touchdown to interception ratio, 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:16.320 rushing touchdowns, rushing yards, first downs, expected yards per complete, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.880 all those all this stuff, all the advanced analeagues. I 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.600 think you got to look at the total package, and 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.960 not only just the numbers, but you got to strip 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.920 it away and just say, what do I see when 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:27.520 I see him play? 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.520 Well, that's what I was going to say, because yes, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.959 all those numbers count and should be factored in to 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.040 the MVP equation. But I think also you have to 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.560 look at whether the team that that person plays for 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.560 is in contention for at least the playoffs. It's hard 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.600 to hand an MVP to a guy on a seven 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.880 and ten team, that's right. So I think that counts. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:04:00.280 And then I think making critical game changing plays in 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.320 some of the biggest moments of games really separates what 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.440 an MVP truly is the most valuable player at the 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.400 most critical times. And the reason Josh Allen's back in 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.160 this conversation is because he's done that the last two weeks. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.080 That's right, and that's get it last. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:16.960 Year in a lot of big games. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.960 And here's the problem. I think for most fans out 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.360 here where we sit, it's hard to quantify that. Yes, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.719 and now analytics, advanced analytics people say, yeah, well we 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.080 do that, you know, and Josh is always. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.159 At the tip expected point at it. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.920 He's the best of that. But it's hard for regular 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.800 fans to say, yeah, well my guy came through in 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.719 this area and you know, and I it's it's hard 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.320 to quantify it, but your gut tells you which guys 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.960 are good at it. Certainly Josh is always at the 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.080 top of that. So yeah, that that is also in 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:55.520 the equation crunch time and your quarterback has always got 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.600 his hands on the ball in crunch time, and how 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.520 good is he in those moments. Yeah, that's I think 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:01.760 that's a large part of it as well. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.320 As we often do here on bills by the Numbers 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.120 has provide the numbers for a more in depth analysis. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.640 So total yards this season, Allen ranks fourth with thirty 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.640 eight hundred eleven ahead of him Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.279 and third Drake May with thirty nine hundred twenty nine 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.440 total yards, one hundred eighteen yards ahead of Allen. Heading 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.200 into Week sixteen, Stafford is sixth with thirty seven hundred 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.440 and fourteen. Completion percentage, Allen second in the league at 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.520 seventy percent. First is May at seventy one percent, Stafford 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.599 a distant fourteenth at sixty six point four percent. First downs, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.680 Allan is tied for first with Prescott two hundred and 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.159 one on the season. May is fourth, Stafford fifth. Scramble 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.000 yards Allan not surprisingly first four hundred twenty four. May 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.880 is third with three hundred and fifty six. Stafford not 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:56.960 part of that competition. Offensive total pass expected points at 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.279 it May is first one hundred fifteen point two two, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:05.039 Allan third one hundred point four, Stafford fifth, eighty eight 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.159 passing yards Stafford second, May fifth, Allen eighth passer rating 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:15.000 Stafford first, May third, Allen fourth, third down passing leaders 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:20.760 Allen sixth, May tenth, Stafford sixteenth. Fourth quarter passing leaders 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:27.160 Stafford first, Allen fourth, May twenty second game winning drives 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.279 Alan tied for fourth with four May and Stafford with 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.280 just one each tied for twentieth. And that could be 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.839 read into as those teams are usually ahead on the scoreboard, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:42.599 so fourth, you know, game winning drives not necessarily needed 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.560 because their teams are winning games and ahead. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.200 That is true. But you look at the you look 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:52.239 at the schedules and the outcomes for these for these teams, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.479 the Patriots, and that's kind of what you look at. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.800 They're eleven and three. Uh, they've got only a handful 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.279 of games where they all their ways have been tight. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.480 They have been tight. It's not like they've been There 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.040 have been some you know, the Giants game, of course, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.560 the Jets game. But when you get down to the Buccaneers, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.840 the Falcons, and then they they lumped up the Browns 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.440 and the Titans. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.200 They most people do. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.040 The Saints game was a one possession game. The Bills 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.080 game was a one possession game. They lumped up the 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.400 Panthers Uh, they lost to the Steelers. The Miami Dolphins 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.400 they beat that was a one score game. So they've 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.960 been in some tight games. So I don't know if 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.640 you can like la lump lump the main numbers into 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:41.880 that where they've always been ahead. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.280 But no last stat here plays of twenty plus yards. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.400 Stafford first with fifty seven, Allen second with fifty six, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.440 May fourth with fifty two. We just ran through a 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.160 boatload of statistics. Do any of them carry more weight 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:56.040 for you than another? 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.920 Yeah? Fourth quarter, fourth quarter stuff, I think for me 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.960 is is important because that's you know, these games the 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.080 NFL are always tight, and they're they're tough. You got 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.160 to be good and like I said, like you said 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:16.960 in crunch time, third down is an important one. You know. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.320 Obviously the scramble yards are an individual stat that's you 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:20.840 got to take that. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.280 Stafford's not going to rank there, right, Stafford. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:23.800 That's right? 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:24.400 Uh? 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.800 And and total offense e p A. I think that's important. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.080 May's first, Allen's third, Stafford's fifth. All these guys are 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.560 right at the top, and that you know, and those 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.040 kind of pass e pa those are like all encompassing 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.800 so for the entire season. But that that also when 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.120 you do this thing with the all the total season 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.760 and it's e PA expected yards it all it has 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.520 to do with play selection, personnel on the field, game situation, opponent. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.920 So yeah, and so that has that's more of a 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:59.520 team stat, although the quarterback is a massive part of it. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.760 It's a team stat. Third downs a little bit of 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.600 a team stat, fourth quarter passing leaders a little bit 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.199 of a situational team stat. But you know, game winning 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.880 drives should be important. So I'm yeah, it's it's hard 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.560 to sift through this because all these guys are right 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.880 in the top five of most maybe it's important category 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:19.800 and maybe that's. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.040 What you pull from all these statistics because the three 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.640 of these three players are are in the running or 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.800 they're at least in the top ten in almost all 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.520 of these, which I think only cements their candidacy for 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.760 the MVP and consideration to win. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.559 They hard because you got to take the time and 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.720 nobody does this. Bill's fans take take the time to 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.920 go back and look at Josh's plays, and well New 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.040 England fans look at May's and the LA fans look 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.360 at Stafford's and you pluck out all those times during 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.319 the season, and there's been a bunch for all of 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:58.160 these guys of where that guy did it? And who knows? 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:00.880 I mean unless you go back and look how many 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.960 and how important were the plays that may made for 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.320 the Patriots that won games the way Josh Allen won 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.280 games for the Bills and Stafford won games for the Rams, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.200 and you go down the list of guys in this conversation, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:21.360 so all these I hate to say it like that 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.000 because I'm a Bills guy, we're Bills guys. All these 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.000 guys are worthy of the desert. They're all deserted. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.400 Knowing it is a tight race, what do you believe 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.760 Josh Allen still has to do over the final three 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.240 games to make a more convincing case for himself. Not 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.760 that he's campaigning to do that, but no, what do 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.200 you think would have to happen? Because he got himself 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.800 on the radar and back into the conversation with two 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.439 amazing second half performances these past two weeks, what does 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.640 he still need to do? What do you think he 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.360 still has to put on your resume this year? 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.400 Here's what it takes. I mean, he has to keep 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.880 on doing what he's doing. Obviously, I think it's more 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.760 it's not so much and even say like this where 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.880 he's played himself into the conversation, that kind of thing. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.800 I think what happens is invariably other guys play themselves 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:12.720 out of it. Unfortunately, because it's hard, particularly with four 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.679 games ago, to run off and leave Drake May, Matthew Stafford, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.600 name your guy, Boden, you know that, Name your guy. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.120 It's hard to run off and leave those guys because 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.160 everybody's playing well at this time of year. I think 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.960 it's about other guys playing themselves out of it. So 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.280 I think that's what you're looking at. Either you don't 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.560 get the opportunity, or your team wins a close win 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.760 against an inferior points for instance, the Bills win this 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.679 game this weekend ten to seven against the Browns. That 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.120 kind of stuff. You play yourself out of it. These 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.520 guys have played themselves into it. They're gonna stay in 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.040 the conversation unless they trip up. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:54.360 I'll say, Marquee games in Marquee Windows helps, you know. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.440 Matthew Stafford, at the time of the taping of this podcast, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.400 had not yet played the Seahawks on Thursday Night foot ball. 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.560 If he lights up the Seahawks, which are a top 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.960 three defense. It's right he could cement himself as the 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.400 league MVP. Josh Allen in Week seventeen, playing in a 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.880 major window game against the Eagles, ye in a couple 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.280 of weeks, the defending Super Bowl champs. He lights them 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.960 up and runs for a thirty yard touchdown and you know, 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.520 wins the football game. I mean, we remember what it 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.000 took last year when he won the MVP. He's you know, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.760 making an unbelievable playoff a lateral to die for a pylon, 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.920 against the San Francisco forty nine ers, Right, I mean, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.280 you make plays like that, it's going to be all 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.320 over television for the next for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.560 of the next week, and those are the things that 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.640 get more recognition, it seems these that's right. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.000 And think about this. Josh makes a play like that 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.120 San Francis Green in the snow, unbelievable Chris collins Worth, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.959 you know, standing up in the booth, jumping up and 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:54.400 now there are Josh makes a play like that. Even 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.880 La ram fans couldn't envision Matt Stafford doing that. I mean, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.160 that's a play that's not in his repertoire, you know. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.480 So there's that kind of thing that goes into it. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.360 Voters listen to that kind of thing. And I also 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:10.679 think there's a little bit of this, and I think 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.080 Lamar suffered from this last year. He already won it. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.040 Some of the voters like, hey, won it last year. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.240 If it's closed, let's give it to a new guy. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.720 That kind of thing goes on. There's no question they 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.760 are human beings, fallible human beings. In some cases you'll say, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.040 you can you can argue about the qualifications of the voters, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.800 about what they put into it. Some of them sit 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.080 in their armchair and with the remote and that's how 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.080 they vote. That's about as much research as they do. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.800 That's the way it is. So yeah, play like the 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:51.439 one you're describing. Yes, absolutely, even that until you get 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.040 close to the end. I think other guy's got to 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:55.960 play themselves out of it. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.120 Switching gears. Another dynamic player on buffer offense and near 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.360 the top of the league in both rushing and total 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.760 yards from scrimmage is James Cook. He leads the league 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.200 with eight one hundred yard rushing games this season, three 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.400 more than anyone else. Jonathan Taylor and Derrick Henry are 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.040 tied for second with just five. He also has the 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.440 most one hundred plus total scrimmage yard games than anyone 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.280 in the league with eleven. He is currently just twenty 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:28.640 eight rushing yards behind Jonathan Taylor for the league's rushing title, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.360 and his sixteen hundred and eighty six total scrimmage yards 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.400 ranks fourth in the NFL behind bjon Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:41.360 and Christian McCaffrey. Robinson's team no longer in contention, which 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.920 figures to hurt him a bit, but not terribly. What 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.880 about the race with Taylor and McCaffrey For Cook. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.600 Well, I think it's we're in the exact same conversation 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.320 we were a moment ago. Certainly, the offensive player of 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.960 the Year is the league's chance and the voters chance 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.800 to give an award to somebody other than a quarterback. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.200 McCaffrey is a great example of that, a great a 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.280 great candidate for that. James Cook, this could be his year. Certainly, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:15.000 Jonathan Taylor is in this conversation. Although now you know 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.840 the Colts have fallen away because of the injury to 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.640 Daniel Jones and Sauce Gardner and all of that. They 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.360 just can't find the recipe to win the way they 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:29.800 did early in the season. That hurts him. So San 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:34.640 Francisco and McCaffrey. I don't know what their schedule is 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.600 coming up, but I think those guys got to find 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.320 you gotta finish strong, and certainly James Cook has been 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.520 walking Jonathan Taylor down for about a month now. He's 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.040 been He was like one hundred and eighteen yards behind him, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.760 and now he's closer and closer and closer. Double digits. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.920 He might take him if he gets the rushing title. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.080 That's it for me, and that would say a lot 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.800 because you know, the Colts, with Philip River at quarterback 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.760 for them right now, are leaning even more on Jonathan 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.760 Taylor than they were when they had Daniel Jones in 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.520 the lineup. So it's not like Taylor's going to be 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.840 short on opportunity to run the ball over these last 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.920 three games when the Colts are fighting and clawing to 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.720 stay in the playoffs or to get back in the 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.400 playoffs because they're outside on the outside looking in heading 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:24.000 into Week sixteen here. And to your point about falling 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.080 off could hurt Taylor, I think it's completely taken. Bjon 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.160 Robinson off the radar, even though I would argue he's 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.680 the most dynamic back in the entire league. He might 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.560 be the most gifted athlete at the running back position 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.920 that we have seen currently, and the guys got a 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.240 ridiculous he might hit two thousand total yards from scrimmage. Now, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.880 if he hits that number, I think Robinson could be 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.360 back in the conversation, even with a team that is 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.720 going absolutely nowhere and is probably going to see their 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.040 coach fired at the end of the season. As hard 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.440 as it might be to hand an award to a 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.120 team that's going to be on the wrong side of 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:04.040 five hundred by a lot, it hurt two thousand yards. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:04.720 It hurts him. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.560 Two thousand yards says something. Though, like you, you reach 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.280 mythical numbers, you could be back in the conversation. I think, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.639 don't you. Yeah, two thousand total yards does it do 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:19.440 it for you? Uh? Maybe not? No, I mean two 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.040 thousand rushing yards is something different. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:28.600 Total yards not so much. I'm yeah, because Uh, I 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.359 would think in a guy, for a guy like Bjeon Robinson, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.320 there would have to be a bigger gap between him 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.320 and James Cook they were He'd have to be out 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.480 here and they're not. They're like four hundred yards exactly. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.359 I think the gap for him and the second place 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.240 guy has to be bigger than what it will be 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.200 between McCaffrey and Cook. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.000 The last few weeks could have a lot to say 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.679 about who takes the Offensive Player of the Year award, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.000 but it's likely to be a running back again as 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.720 it was last year with the Eagles Saquon Barkley, although 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.840 Seattle's Jackson Smith and Jigba could be a dark horse candidate. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.440 He is racking up receiving yards like nobody's business. Time 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.520 Now for the numbers game and will quiz Steve on 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:14.240 MVP and Offensive Player of the Year history. Let's do it. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.919 Question number one, what player holds the record for the 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:24.560 highest total yards from scrimmage in a single season. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.040 I'm gonna say, uh, Ladanian Tomlinson. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:36.560 It is not Ladonian Thomlins. That's a good guest though. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:41.000 I like that. Uh. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.960 I don't know what was running back with running back 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.280 with its Indianapolis with is in the Hall of Fame now, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.359 Eric Dickers, no no, no, no, no no no, with Peyton 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.040 Manny oh Edrin James, Edgrin James obviously noted James. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.800 It's in that era though. If that helps you. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.280 I'm gonna say it is a running back. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:18.119 Yes, Priest Holmes is not Priest Holmes. It is Chris Johnson. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.280 Who oh Tennessee type. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.880 Oh yes, y K two yeah K two Yeah. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.840 Twenty five hundred and nine total yards. In two thousand 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.760 and nine, he was the NFL Offensive Player of the Year. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.120 Talk about a comment he just here and gone. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.240 He was like a supernova. He was really a super 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.600 like for three or four years he was top notch 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.480 and then I don't know what happened. It just it 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:39.040 wasn't the same disappeared. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:39.720 Yeah. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:44.919 Question number two, how many NFL MVPs have won the 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.639 award in back to back years, something that Josh Allen 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.880 has an opportunity to do potentially this year. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:20:01.119 I will say it might be more than that. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.879 I was gonna say four, You're very close. It's five 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:13.159 Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre, Joe Montana, and Jim Brown. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.679 Manning is the only one to do the back to 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.600 back twice, right, So good for him? 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.640 Holy cow? Yeah. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.760 Question number three, who is the only league MVP to 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.440 win the award three years straight? 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:31.400 Rogers. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.680 It is not Rogers. He's won four, but only two. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.760 He only won back to back once. It is not 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:39.760 Jim Brown either. That's a great guess. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.480 Is it from that era? Is it? 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.120 It's no, it is not from the Jim Brown era. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:54.280 No is this century previous century? 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:55.920 Montana? 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.280 It is not Montana. It is Brett Farr won three 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.000 in a row. Is hard believe? The years were ninety five, 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.320 ninety six, and ninety seven. And question four, what two 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:11.479 players share the record for the most Offensive Player of 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:12.800 the Year awards? 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:17.320 Oh my gosh, what two players? Yep? What era? They're 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.160 in two different eras. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.879 I will tell you they each won three and here's 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:29.360 the kicker. They both won three in consecutive years. 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:32.600 I gotta say, La Dainian Tomlinson. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:38.200 Again, it is not legions. They are both Hall of famers. 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:39.440 Earl Campbell. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.879 Earl Campbell as was very good, Steve that was a 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:46.760 shot nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty three consecutive Offensive 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.040 Player of the Year awards. I will say the other 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:50.720 one is more recent. 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:58.720 Like in this century? Just shy or just shy? I 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:06.440 will say, Uh, Megatron is not Megatron? Is it a 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:07.360 running back? Yes? 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.919 And I know you can get this very Hall of Famer, 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:19.280 not Barry Sanders, the Thurman. Mhmm. You'll you'll say, of 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:20.920 course after I give you the name. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:28.359 If you don't get it, okay, thanks, thanks, running back 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:38.880 from just a minute, n FC, don't tell me, don't 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:39.240 tell me. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:47.199 You want to get it now. Running Back in three 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.560 consecutive years won the Offensive Player of the Year award. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:52.439 M h. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.240 Wait, wait, I'm going I'm going through my. 0:22:58.720 --> 0:22:59.120 Mm hmm. 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:04.479 Okay, NFC, I gotta I gotta look at the NFC teams. 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:14.200 Let's see no cheating now, I'm not cheating. Uh oh, 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:15.159 Walter Payton. 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.000 Not Walter Wait, don't tell me you want one more? 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:22.399 Get I want another? Guess let's just getting good. 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:28.120 The competitive nature of Steve Tasker is bubbling to the surface. 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:31.000