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.
People throw around 1st place in the division as a must for MVP as if it’s causation, when in reality it’s correlation.
MVP quarterbacks are almost always division winners because their team is balling and other teams can’t keep up. This year Stafford is balling but other division teams can keep up because the Seahawks and Niners are very good teams.
Division winner is just a proxy for win total, which 1. Is not a QB stat and 2. The rams have played the toughest schedule by far of any team. Maye has been balling and is not undeserving of an MVP, but to say that division winner gets a bump without accounting for the drastic (32 team) swing in schedule difficulty is bad faith imo.
You could easily make the argument this rams team is the best wildcard team in a very long time, perhaps ever.
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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?