Update 3:Peyton is MVP ,now Dion Sanders is promoting Rivers for MVP.
UPDATE 3: what a surprise now Dion Sanders is promoting Rivers for MVP, first was CJ but as the titans playoff chances are slim ,well now he's got Rivers, he's always lobbying against the colts or Peyton on every opportunity he has.
UPDATE 2: Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Shannon Sharpe and Boomer Esiason also agree.
So if it wasn't for Peyton ability to score on those come from behind wins this team could have been any where from 9-5 to 7-7 , our defense kept us on many of those games but still the team needed from Peyton's skills to score to get us back into the game a win it , Saints running backs have won a game or 2 and their defense score more points than ours and have really won them some close ones.
So how Peyton is not MVP without a dominating running game backing him up and setting a record for most comeback wins in a season in NFL history and getting this team to 14-0 for the first time in teams history and 3rd time in history of the NFL?
If on top of the stats and all, you say that all of this is being done under a new coach and with out Marvin Harrison, when nearly every Main Stream Media outlook for this team during the offseason and preseason was .500 team at best, makes his case an undeniable one.
His closer competitor in the MVP race should be Drew Brees , hes having a monster year as well, stat wise ,but they have a better running game and his defense scores lots of points to win games add the exotic offensive and defensive schemes being called by Coach Payton and his D coordinator and his value to the team is less than Manning to the Colts.
So for me it will be crime not giving Peyton Manning the MVP this season one more time.
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Mark Schlereth agrees
I’d really be okay with Brees winning it b/c Peyton will still win more before he’s done. If anyone else wins I’ll be pretty disappointed.
"If you don't [draft me], I promise you I'll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years."
all 4 people on around the horn also agreed
And to Indy Lori: I know it’s easy to hate on ESPN and MSM but it’s these types of people that vote for MVP. So regardless of how wrong they are most of the time, they vote and right now they’re all agreeing on Manning. It would be pretty cool if it turns out that two years in a row a Thursday night Jax game sealed the MVP. The Thursday night games are nice b/c everyone watches them and has 2 full days to talk about them. Great for MVP candidacies.
"If you don't [draft me], I promise you I'll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years."
Just FYI
Here is the complete list of the 50 AP voters for all the NFL awards:
Brian Allee-Walsh, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Howard Balzer, Fox Sports Net
Don Banks, Sports Illustrated.com
Jarrett Bell, USA Today
Bob Berger, Sporting News Radio
Chris Berman, ESPN
Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Clifton Brown, Sporting News
Rich Cimini, NY Daily News
John Clayton, ESPN Magazine
Steve Cohen, Sirius Satellite Radio
Frank Cooney, USA Sports Weekly
Jim Corbett, The Sports Weekly
Bob Costas, HBO/NBC Sports
Mark Craig, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati Enquirer
Tom Curran, NFL Columnist, NBCSports.com.
John Czarnecki, Fox Sports
Vinny DiTrani, The Record
Paul Domowitch, Philadelphia Daily News
David Elfin, Washington Times
Boomer Esiason, CBS
Clare Farnsworth, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Mark Gaughan, Buffalo News
Nancy Gay, San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Glauber, Newsday
Rick Gosselin, Dallas Morning News
Tony Grossi, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Paul Gutierrez, Sacramento Bee
Ira Kaufman, Tampa Tribune
Peter King, Sports Illustrated
Jeff Legwold, Rocky Mountain News
Howie Long, Fox TV
Alex Marvez, Foxsports.com
John McClain, Houston Chronicle
Pat McManamon, Akron Beacon Journal
Chris Mortensen, ESPN
Gary Myers, NY Daily News
Danny O’Neil, Seattle Times
Jay Paris, North County (San Diego) Times
Dan Pompei, Chicago Tribune
Armando Salguero, Miami Herald
Adam Schein, Sirius NFL Radio
Len Shapiro, Miami Herald
Tom Silverstein, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Willie T. Smith III, Greenville News
Kent Somers, Arizona Republic
Adam Teicher, Kansas City Star
Larry Weisman USA Today
Charean Williams, Fort Worth Star Telegram
do you have their addresses
or even their emails.
As long as we have Peyton we will always have a chance to win.
wouldn't be hard to find.
go paper by paper and i guarantee they have contacts for each and every one.
Indianapolis Colts, taking focus away from my DBacks every Sunday.
Nice, just like 2003 when 18 tied with McNair
No Indy sportswriter has a vote but a guy in the leading competitor’s home town does.
grumble grumble
Holy crap, Chris Berman?? WHOOP! He could blow his vote.. all… the…way! (I find him immensely entertaining, but not exactly enlightening, like Dick Vitale without the game smarts.)
Crap, Vinny DiTriani’s still alive? I read him when I was a kid 30+ years ago. So much for NJ leading the nation in cancer deaths.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
woah, Chris Berman and Dick Vitale? I’m younger (25) but i really can’t stand Vitale and Berman is okay. Maybe it’s the IU thing – I graduated ’06 and it felt like all Vitale has done is root for Duke and talk about Knight. Berman is cheesy but he started ESPN and really went on his own to get that going. Gotta respect that.
"If you don't [draft me], I promise you I'll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years."
Vitale absolutely knows basketball.
I prefer him to many commentators. Yes, he’s over the top, but he’s legitimately excited about the sport and knows it well enough to analyze it effectively. I can’t figure out why people bash the guy.
waaa?
Because he is obnoxious and has domed up, personally, every duke player to ever to ever have a round ball in his hand.
by bob-log sandtits on Dec 25, 2009 2:20 AM EST up reply actions
What did I say that makes you think I hate on ESPN?
I don’t remember. I do recall hating on Skip Bayless though.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
umm...your comment right under this one
If ESPN says so it must be true
"If you don't [draft me], I promise you I'll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years."
That's not hating, that's sarcasm.
It’s more subtle than hating.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
If ESPN says so it must be true.LOL
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.

As long as we have Peyton we will always have a chance to win.
by skywalker on Dec 18, 2009 6:23 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
That looks vaguely familiar to me.........
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
i liked him even when he was in nfl network he's alright
"You only get intercepted when you don't know what your doing, I knew what I was Doing".
Johnny Unitas
---UHHHHHH I GOT MY JACK "THE ASSASSIN" TATUM JERSEY!!!!!!! SO FRESH AN SO CLEAN CLEAN SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN---
by 805 on Dec 18, 2009 7:12 PM EST reply actions
Dilfer last night had a weeny MVP response
in saying it should be co-MVPs. But he prefaced that by saying 18 should be the MVP every year and has probably been the real MVP annually for the past six. Trent just thinks what Brees is doing this year is more special than 18, but he settled on them being equals.
So in the middle of his indecision sandwich, there was a meaty slice of admiration for the best player in the game.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
I honestly see that being how it plays out.
Brees and Manning as Co-MVPs. I like Brees so I’m cool with that.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Dec 19, 2009 12:48 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
mmm...indecision sandwhich. Can i get some mayo on that?
Oh, yeah, Peyton probably counts as mayo
"If you don't [draft me], I promise you I'll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years."
Jerod Mayo, ILB, Pats.
probably have a few players names White. Anybody named Rye? Pumpernickel? Julius Peppers on the side?
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
Dilfer...
I hated how obstinant and stupid he acted about slamming Belichick for his 4th and 2 call, but as a former middling QB he’s generally pretty fair in his talent evaluations – his rankings of all the QBs before this year were decent, even though he still managed to make the dumb mistake of slipping in “will improve once he wins a playoff game” logic once or twice kept it from being really great. In general I don’t hate him, though he lost a lot of points when he acted like a fool last month about BB.
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They are only saying that because the Colts are fresh in their minds. Once the Saints play again, everyone will all fall in love with Brees again and that will continue for the rest of the season whether it is right or not.
I don't always drink beer....but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.
The whole country voted for Peyton, see under fanshots the ESPN Poll results.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
Or not.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
Peyton or Brees?????????

"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
I wouldn't mind seeing Co-MVPs for Peyton and Brees...
as long as Peyton gets another Lombardi. In fact, I could get behind any league MVP whose name is NOT Favre – the Lombardi for Peyton and our beloved Colts is non-negotiable, though,
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
hu i know i wouldnt mind seeing the co-mvps, but if manning doesn't get it it'll be all good because he'll be getting another different kind of mvp trophy
the superbowl mvp
"You only get intercepted when you don't know what your doing, I knew what I was Doing".
Johnny Unitas
---UHHHHHH I GOT MY JACK "THE ASSASSIN" TATUM JERSEY!!!!!!! SO FRESH AN SO CLEAN CLEAN SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN---
by 805 on Dec 19, 2009 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
He will get
a car for being Super Bowl MVP, which I don’t understand. It’s not like he could go out and buy a new car with his pocket change or anything
Bob Sanders does not play Hide-and-Seek, He plays HIDE and PRAY-HE-DOES-NOT FIND-YOU!
i know they should like give them a check to spend on any charity
"You only get intercepted when you don't know what your doing, I knew what I was Doing".
Johnny Unitas
---UHHHHHH I GOT MY JACK "THE ASSASSIN" TATUM JERSEY!!!!!!! SO FRESH AN SO CLEAN CLEAN SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN---
by 805 on Dec 19, 2009 7:18 PM EST up reply actions
He was too tall to fit in the car they gave him for being MVP of Super Bowl XLI.
So he traded it in for an Escalade.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Dec 20, 2009 6:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
according to Schefter
his twitter:
Saints lost their streak, Nick Folk lost his job, Giants lost steam, Peyton Manning won MVP, and Cowboys won BIG. Still have to win 1 more.
You're missing an option
“No – they’ll give it to Favre because most voters don’t know anything about football.”
haha
I bet more than one voter will employ the following logic:
“Manning is great but it’s not fair for him to get a 4th MVP when Favre hasn’t had one, so I’m going to vote for Favre. Maybe they’ll tie, and then everyone* wins!”
( * – everyone except logic and reason and intelligent fans)
I agree.
"I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic." -Jean Renoir
Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
...so much for not winning the Heisman trophy
Not a bad trade-off
It's no secret Deion hates the Colts
Rivers has played very good, but not to the level of Peyton, Brees, or even Aaron Rodgers, in my opinion. Deion knows this and is just trying to hop on a new bandwagon since the Brees one came to a halt.
On Thursday, he predicted Jax will win, and then at halftime said they would still come back and win, and when the Colts won like everyone else knew they would, he said Manning should not be MVP because he couldn’t close the game out, Lacey had to. As if Peyton hasn’t closed out every big game this season. Deion has no business being an analyst. The guy makes Keyshawn Johnson look like a Rhodes Scholar.
"A lot of times, Kenny, we have no idea what we're doing. But the DEFENSE doesn't know that we don't know what we're doing.....and that's next level." -Peyton Manning
Yeah, that made no sense
How many times do you see a losing team put up 31 points and then say “wow, the defense sure won that one!” It made no logical sense. Lets forget that Peyton had a perfect first half. Lets forget his only interception hit Dallas Clark right in his gloveless hands. Peyton didn’t “close the game” because of a false start penalty and the smart decision to run the ball twice to take time off the clock. I wish he’d just come out and say that he hated the Colts. At least then there would be a reason for his madness.
by hoosierdore on Dec 21, 2009 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
i wonder if he is just a product of his environment. nfl network is very east cost biased, but at cbs he was not at all bad. for sure there is behind the scenes encouragement for ratings somewhere.
by bob-log sandtits on Dec 25, 2009 2:28 AM EST up reply actions
Did Dungy mention last night
that the Chargers benefited from a non-call because LT was substituting in and did it incorrectly (came in “between the numbers” or some such)? Can’t remember when in the game it happened, but I got the impression that Dungy thought it could have affected the outcome, or at least the likelihood the game would go to overtime. MVP QBs don’t mess that shit up.
How can you not love a team that does this?
it completly effected it.
yes he mentioned it a couple times allong with harrison. basically h wasn’t inside the 30 yard line before the snap by like 5 yards. basically if they called it it is almost certain it would have gone two overtime
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 21, 2009 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
Was that referee Ron Winters's crew officiating the game?
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
No, he officiated the Jets/Falcons game.
Which guarantees that he won’t officiate our game this coming week.
Dion Sanders
has a HUGE Peyton Manning blind spot. I have no clue why, but I just wish he would make it a little less obvious. When everybody and their mother thinks Manning is MVP and you go and say its Philip Riviers (It was Chris Johnson just last week) your a moron. What the hell? Rivers couldn’t even hold Peyton’s jock. It makes no sense. Rivers has done nothing to even be in the MVP talk. But hey I guess Dion thinks so.
Bob Sanders does not play Hide-and-Seek, He plays HIDE and PRAY-HE-DOES-NOT FIND-YOU!
F*ck Dion
Dion changes his MVP favorite more than he changes his dumb ass ugly lookin suits that he thinks he “pimps”. F*!k him.
IN POLIAN I TRUST
Deion is only mad b/c
Peyton and Marvin flat out embarrassed him on a double move for a TD back in 1999 and he’s still mad about it.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Dec 21, 2009 12:15 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Ya know..
I was going to write in my post we must have smoked him when he played with the Ravens so he’s just mad. But I didn’t have time to look it up and make certain what I thought was fact. How funny would it be to find that video of the double move and send it to Sanders’ twitter or facebook titled Dear Deion, The 2009 NFL MVP: Peyton Manning
IN POLIAN I TRUST
Clark Judge cbssports
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/12688421
12. That does it. The MVP goes to Peyton Manning.
Deion Sanders
He was pwned by Hunter Smith on a kick return after he was talking all week that if he sees the punter during the return it’s a guaranteed TD, Smith tackled him at the 2, funny as hell. watch it on my fanshot http://www.stampedeblue.com/2009/12/21/1210917/deion-sanders-pwnedhe-had-boasted
Sanders
I just watched the NFL Network (why do I put myself through this) again today and the worse so called sports expert Deion Sanders still has his big O lips stuck on Rivers and Turners ass.
Of course the only stat they use as evidence is Rivers17 straight Dec wins, maybe they need to look at a true MVP’s record, the one and only Peyton Manning.
Fine. Let's just compare Decembers...
Rivers’ December record is 17-0… but let’s look at his wins. This year he beat CLE, DAL, and CIN… last year it was OAK, KC, TB and DEN (and it followed a 1-4 stretch by SD)… in 2007 it was KC, TEN, DET, DEN, and OAK… in 2006 it was BUF, DEN, KC, SEA, and ARI. I see a LARGE number of bad teams in there. It looks like Rivers gets a late-season break most years by getting weaker teams to beat up on.
(Rivers’ first December game was actually a loss to DEN in 2005, by the way, after the Brees’ injury.)
No mention of the fact that Peyton has won his last 12 consecutive meaningful DEC games: 2009 – TEN, DEN, JAX… 2008 – CIN, DET, JAX, TEN… 2007 – JAX, BAL, OAK, HOU (pulled from the meaningless Wk 17 TEN game)… 2006 – MIA… before that was Houston, his last real DEC loss, and the Texans’ only win against Indy… ever. They played a virtually perfect game (0 turnovers, only 2 punts, 11 of 14 conversions, 45% more plays than Indy, etc)… but the Colts won the SuperBowl that year when their defense got its act together.
Before Peyton’s three December road losses to division foes in 2006, he had won his previous 8 meaningful DEC games as well. Overall, since a late December loss to DEN in 2003, he’s 21-3…
add that to a 56-14 record (and 7-5 post-season) outside of December since 2003, and a Ring, and some MVP trophies… and compare to Rivers’ 27-18 (and 3-3 post-season) since 2006.
What’s that? You say the MVP is only for 2009? Well, they started it by going for the 17-0 DEC record, but sure, let’s look at just 2009:
Yards, Manning by 322…
Wins, Manning by 3…
TDs, Manning by 8…
Completion , Manning by 4 (68.6 to 64.6)…
Turnovers, Rivers by 3 (12 to 15)…
Sacks, Manning (10 to 24)…
QB rating, Rivers by 1.6…
Strength of Schedule, Manning has only one game against the Bottom Seven teams (Rivers has 5 so far, with one more coming). In fact, every AFC South team is in the playoff hunt in Week 16. The AFC West had two teams out of the race by Week 14.
Looking at it rationally, there’s no way that Rivers’ 17 DEC win streak means more to 2009 than Manning’s 23 game win streak, nor do his numbers hold upto Peyton’s, even against weaker opponents. It’s simply bias against success (which I possess in spades… can’t stand Brady, Tiger, Kobe, Michael Schumacher, the Yankees, etc) that keeps some from voting for Manning again and again and again.
(I always wondered how I’d feel about Peyton if he’d won 3-4 Rings by now… hmmm…)
Deion also said the NY Jets could be the team to beat the Colts, too
and Michael Irvin basically said he’d be giving Deion some medicine after the broadcast. (I can’t believe I’m implying that Michael Irvin has some common sense.)
I know it’s “any given sunday” and who knows which Colts’ regulars will be playing…but C’mon! Give them some damn credit.
Reminds me of the Tom Jackson/Michael Irvin interplay a couple years ago
I think it was those two. Irvin said something totally ludicrous and TJ couldn’t help but say “are you retarded?”
followed the next day by a huge apology.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
I like Tom Jackson...
I knew there was a reason why!
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
by peytonsthebest on Dec 21, 2009 6:09 PM EST up reply actions
Is there somewhere we can all e-mail NFL Network about Deion.
I am not talking about nasty trash talk. I am talking about hundreds of fans writing, with examples, about Deion’s obvious bias. This is a very unprofessional commentator and I believe the NFL Network should hear about it. It is obvious that the other cast members recognize it also. Rich, Steve and Marshall have all looked incredulous at times by Deion’s off the wall comments about Peyton and the Colts. I for one would like to know the best place to lodge a legitimate complaint.

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