Last word on Chris Johnson's classless Twitter comment and the stupidity at SBNation.com

But if a Colts player doesn’t bow down before the media, says the right thing, does anything but win it explodes. The worst journalism I’ve ever seen was how they tried to make Marvin look like Lucifer incarnate last year. They had a few thousand word article that contradicted itself, used false reports and rumors as facts, and never once got his side of the story. Not allowing a side to state their point, especially when it’s a smear campaign, is breaking one of the cardinal rules of journalism. That’s what differentiates “reporting or journalism” from “tabloids”.

There was a great article I may dig up around that time that basically called out ESPN and other media outlets on how they “reported”. Essentially it said that the story, or more specifically breaking it first, was the crown jewel and there was no journalistic integrity. I think BBS had it at one point or shake..I forget. But basically they treated each network as a “franchise” that was “competing”. All these journalists and reporters were treated like free agents. That’s why they were ending up with Emmit Smiths (who wasn’t that bad other than just not knowing how to communicate) and the Cris Carters (who flat out should have been fired for saying twice during a radio broadcast that he would literally like to shoot T.O.) of the world. All they do is sit around and talk about their suits looking awesome now and either cheesing to the camera or trying to come up with THE POINT. It doesn’t matter what the point is as long as it’s THE POINT. That’s where all this absurd crap comes from. end rant

Me missppelliiiiing the word “schmuck” is one thing. Anyone missspellinggg Peyton Manning’s name is another. The guy is on every commercial ever made. Mispelling his name is like forgetting how to say spell Barak Obama.

I find myself in agreement with you the majority of the time.

/shudders

As far as CJs comment, I don’t care. He’s trying to be the Chad Johnson of the Titans is all. So what? I’m more concerned that he actually attended college and speaks the way he does. That’s a sad state of affairs if you ask me.

The people who have used that argument still say that Manning should win. Let’s say that those people were voters. They think Manning should win, but also that Chris Johnson had an incredible season. Would those people cast their vote for Manning or Chris Johnson?

…but look at what he wrote. He said that he was going to go and pick up the award from his house. That’s a humorous statement. Even if there was some resentment, he made a joke out of it. If he was really serious, he could have tweeted, “wat da hell i was robbd a my award!” or something to that degree. But he didn’t. Any competitor in the NFL wants to win the MVP award. When the Titans were eliminated from the playoffs, they made it a team effort for CJ to try and break the rushing record and win the MVP. An MVP award for CJ would be an MVP award for the Titans team. CJ had one of the top rushing seasons of ALL TIME. Maybe even one of the best individual seasons of ALL TIME. He has a right to be disappointed.

who cares? Peyton has way too much class to ever pull anything like that. For that we should all be grateful.

CJ’s a great runner; a truly ignorant human being, but a great runner.

If Steven Jackson had been bitching for years about getting it. It’s not called the MTP (most talented player), it’s MVP. Valuable generally means “of great use”, important, or helpful. I may have disagreed with how BBS kind of said “You MUST make the playoffs to get it”, but he’s kind of right. Value is almost something tangible, so it kind of insinuates either something literally or…hmm..metaphysically? tangible. Which means either wins, playoff berth, or definitely the Lombardi.

Now I’ll agree that maybe the award shouldn’t be awarded until after the SB, but there’s a ton of factors that make the playoffs an unfair playing field and not everyone gets the same breaks. 8 home games, 8 road games, same schedule as everyone else, that allows everyone to have the same playing field.

And I’m sorry, a team that finishes third within their division and an 8-8 record has nothing to show for it other than a top 20 draft pick. Peyton hasn’t had a top pick to add to the mix since he was in his early 20s. Not to mention two HoF receivers that are from two different generations combined with first a second year guys looking like studs and probably a HoF receiving TE all need a QB to throw those passes.

That’s more of a rant than actually a response to your post. But if Chris Johnson is buttsore about not getting the MVP, Brees should have been irate and slashing Peyton’s tires last season. I mean, the Saints were 8-8 and Brees probably could have easily broken the passing record if he wanted to throw one more pass.

Not to mention that’s only the second time someone has gone past 5k yards. Although Peyton could have done that a couple times probably if he wasn’t sitting. You realize he’s probably sat over a season’s worth of games? Crazy. Anyway, CJ’s 2k season is the 6th one in history and Campbell only missed 2k by 64 yards. Factor in several of those were done in less games, and only Terrell Davis and Barry Sanders (who shared it with Favre) were the only two who won an MVP off that list. And they both made the playoffs.

Pretty simple really. QBs mean more to the team. 90% of the time a QB is more valuable to the team than a skill position player. Their chance for failure is exponentially higher than a RB or WR. RBs run by instinct. RBs are way easier to replace. Just look at Dom’s rookie year stats when Edge went out. His ypc was higher than Edge had his entire career, but you’d accuse someone of smoking crack saying Dom was anywhere near what Edge was. Pshh, look at who replaced Davis when he started having his injuries. Olandis Gary was a rookie in 99 and rushed for 1159 yards and had 7 TDs in 12 games. Not saying he’d break 2k yards, but Addai would probably be considered one of the elite backs in that scheme with that line and how they play. I don’t think Vince Young would be rocking it like Peyton though.