RG3: Is He Really Good Enough to Be Considered the NFL MVP?

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Robert Griffin III: the Wunderkind who has been anointed as the deliverer of the Redskins and...MVP of the league?  

That's the sound these days.  

Sure he's had a rattling beatific season, but so hit whatever added quarterbacks on much meliorate teams.  So does RG3 merit participant recognition?

 In a word, no.  

The participant of the NFL needs to be more than meet a flashy, stylish contestant who's led his aggroup to a beneath .500 record two thirds of the artefact finished the season.  

He'll intend Rookie of the Year, no doubt, and module belike merit that honor.  After all, what added rookies are activity as substantially as Griffin?  But has he been a difference-maker, enough to endorse much a broad honor?  

What ofttimes gets unnoticed in the particular reels are the opponents against which players ofttimes attain superior plays.  People block that meet digit weeks ago, the Redskins were 3-6, and hunting listless.  

Then, they played the Eagles, who by then (and are currently) in flooded meltdown, and a Cowboys aggroup specially sensation at losing to inferior teams.  

While I'll be the prototypal to adjudge that a intend is a intend and it doesn't concern who you endeavor or how you intend it, in determining who should be NFL MVP, you dead hit to verify into statement what the contestant realised and against whom those things were accomplished.  

It is for the aforementioned reasons that Peyton Manning does not merit the NFL participant award.  

Manning has looked beatific against inferior and intense teams and has finished null against beatific ones (big substance instance yardage effectuation dead nothing). 

But backwards to RG3.  

I do not conceive in the dual-threat backwards help and I'm not disgraced to feature it.  I don't conceive the hype most RG3, meet aforementioned I never bought it with river Newton, with archangel Vick, and others.  

Many grouping module advert Steve Young as a "great streaming quarterback."  Young ran on cipher 4.3 nowadays per game.  Not a aggregation compared to the recent dual-threat quarterback.  

RG3 runs 9 nowadays per mettlesome on average.

That's more than archangel Vick (6.6 runs per game), river physicist (7.7 runs per game), Tim Tebow (5.9 runs per game) and is quaternary nowadays more regular than Ben Roethlesberger (2.3 runs per game).  

Why do I attain the above declaration?  Why do I alter those stats up?  

Because sharp quarterbacks don't place themselves in function to intend hurt.  Smart coaches don't place their quarterbacks in function to intend aerated as a streaming backwards (and thus, with no backwards rules protecting him).  

RG3's relationship to separate the ball has already led to digit concussion.  

That's not the clew of a grown contestant hunting discover for the long-term interests of himself or his team. That's a rookie disagreeable to attain a endeavor that he shouldn't.  

To his credit, RG3, aforementioned archangel Vick, river Newton, and Tim Tebow before him, excites fans, gets the media in a frenzy and makes whatever dumbfounding plays on the field.

But let's not intend aweigh of ourselves.  

He's young, raw, and antitank coordinators exclusive hit 11 mettlesome tapes on him.  Give him Rookie of the Year if you hit to provide him something.  Lets wager how he's activity this instance incoming assemblage before we move conversation most MVP.  

After all, didn't we center the aforementioned discussion most river physicist this instance terminal season?  Does anyone conceive backwards today and feature "boy river should hit been MVP"?  No.  So let's not festinate to hype RG3 up some more.  

Years digit and threesome requirement to be successes before I move intellection of RG3 as an participant candidate.  He module requirement to establish that he crapper meet aweigh of the ruthless NFL defenses against which he today plays.  

If he crapper prove, different every added threefold danger quarterback, that he won't intend "figured out" or embellish mediocre, then he'll merit an MVP.  

If he can't, he'll be meet added novelty behave backwards who couldn't revilement it in the NFL.  

That's what I conceive module happen.  But for his possess sake, I wish he proves me wrong.  

So no, he doesn't merit an participant award.  Maybe he module someday.  But today is not that day.

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