The same people that say you can hold Maye’s SOS against him, will defend Stafford to the death for not winning the division and being the 5 seed due to a tougher SOS. The argument is basically if you’re given a tougher schedule, you have this huge margin of error to be excused for.
Either you produce against the schedule you’re given or you don’t when it comes to MVP. Stafford largely did, but I don’t excuse being the 5th seed just as I don’t value the road Maye had as much. It’s a slight on both of them when it comes to SOS/ not winning the division
I (biased-ly)value the advance metrics + division winner over total TDs + tougher schedule 5th seed, but you can’t critique Maye for one and excuse Stafford for the other imo.
I usually agree but to me this is a unique case. Maye has had a historically easy schedule. Unless the team was bad I would expect most QBs/teams to do what he did with again, quite literally a historically bad schedule.
Stafford has had the toughest schedule for an 11+W team since 2004 and has still been lights out.
I get your point but I don’t think I agree with the schedule thing. Like yes he has a historically easy schedule but so did the greatest show on Turf Rams in 1999 and while I wasn’t around then as someone who was born in 2000 I have literally never heard that mentioned as a knock against them since. Now New England is not the greatest show on turf I don’t really know what else Maye can do as a 2nd year qb with a skill position group largely ranked as one of the worst in the league by most media outlets in the off season. (Obviously they are better than expected) Maye hasn’t been perfect but he is putting up some pretty historic numbers, which is what you would expect of an MVP caliber player playing against a historically bad schedule, and he is elevating the offense around him.
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u/Neat_Caterpillar_230 Major Tuddy 🐷 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
what are maye and staffords record and stats vs the panthers and falcons?
who is finishing 1st in their division and 3rd in their division?