Who's my vote for this season's MVP? None other than sunshine on my butt-hole Randy Moss. When he's not running over traffic cops, smoking pot, or walking off the field in disgust, Moss is quite possibly the best deep threat ever to play the game, and he makes his QB's look so much better (provided of course he actually wants to play - ergo ignore those two seasons as a Raider). It is him that is the key to NE's offense, and that is why he deserves the MVP. When he isn't catching TD's, he is drawing double or triple coverage, which opens up the field for Ben Watson, or the best slot receiver in football (Welker) to get open.
Let's see just how much Moss improves his QB's by playing with some stats....
In Moss's first 6 years in the league, he had 77 TD's, and he averaged 1396 yards per season.... that's... uhh... pretty good.
98 - Randall Cunningham threw 34 TD's in essentially 13 games. He hadn't even started the past few years. Brad Johnson also threw 7 TD passes. That's 41 total. Moss had 17, or 41% of them.
99 - Jeff George and Cunningham (Both ancient by the way) combined for 31 TD's. Moss had 11 TD's (35.5%).
00 - Duante - 33 TD's. Moss - 15 (45.5%)
01 - QB's - 23 TD's. Moss - 10 (43.5%)
02 - Pepper - 18. Moss - 7 (38.9%)
03 - QBs - 32. Moss - 17 (53%!!!!)
04 - Pepper - 39. Moss 13 (in 13 games) (33.3%)
05 - QB's - 21. Moss - 8 (38%)
06 - QB's - 7. Moss - 3 (in 13 games) (42.9%)
THIS YEAR
Brady - 45. Moss 19 (42.2%)
Also, take a look at some of Moss's qb's numbers without him compared to with him.
Cunningham - in seasons where he started 12 or more games, without Moss, he averaged 22.17 TD's a year. With him he had 34..... and that was in 13.5 games.
Culpepper - averaged 28.75 TD's a season with Moss... without Moss.... he hasn't even been able to hang on to a starting job. In fact, he has only thrown 13 TD's since Moss left him... That was over the course of about 16 full games.
Jeff George - Without Moss averaged 18.3 TD's a season when he started 12 or more games. With moss, he put up 23 TD's.... in 11.5 games.
Now we have Brady, who is closing in on the record.... prior to having Moss, his CAREER high was 28, with an average of 24.5 TD's a season. He reached his career high nearly halfway through the season.
It is ridiculous to think that Brady could have this kind of season without Moss. It is not ridiculous to think that Moss could have kind of season with out Brady - he's done it with Randall Cunningham, and a revolving door of QB's in 2003!
How about we give some credit where credit is due? Randy Moss deserves to be the front-runner for MVP.