BBQ vs. Sourdough: Super Bowl LVIII thread

Not that I care one way or the other, but playoffs are irrelevant to the voting. Otherwise Lamar doesn't get MVP.

 

Only Pittsburgh

 

All the major sports MVP awards are regular season performance only. Otherwise, they obviously couldn't award them before the championship game/series.

 

I believe oop's illustration was simply further validation that Garrett's nondescript (for him) regular season was no fluke. Not that it should have played a part in the voting.

 

So the NFL is playing a game in Brazil this year and one in Spain in 2025? Are those in addition to games in England?

 

We get one in Munich, one in Sao Paolo and three in London.

 

I'd rather watch all-star game matching practice-squad players from both leagues. At least it would be real football. Nobody gives a shit about the pro Bowl or the nonsense it has become.

 

I don't think it does. I just included that to tweak the Browns fan who seems to think Garrett actually deserved that award.

 

Correct. Some analysts were fooled by Garrett's dominant start to the season and didn't realize how little he did the final six games of the regular season. Watt had more sack, tackles, solo tackles, tackles for loss, interceptions, quarterback pressures, quarterback hits, fumble recoveries, and pass deflections. They each forced four fumbles. Watt also scored one touchdown, a pick-six that turned the game when the Steelers beat the Rams.

Some voters turned it into a team award, ignoring Watt's superior play because the Browns' defense was better. Others bought into Pro Football Focus's nonsense.

 

Not sure that PFF's stuff is nonsense, because win rate is something. Sacks are significant but there are other metrics that are more accurate because how many times have we seen the initial guy push the QB to someone else for the sack? (It still chaps me where the year Dana Stubblefield won DPOY with his all-time sacks in 1997(?), it was really Bryant Young who was more dominant and impactful but he lost because of sack total. But I do admit that if you look at the sack list, yearly and all-time, there aren't many fakers on the list.

 

Garrett was playing though an injury, right?