[Senator Clay Davis]

It's just been an odd season overall, why shouldn't the MVP race be odd? How does the MVP front runner go from favorite to no shot of winning in one game? That's what Purdy just did. Lamar's the favorite now, but if he goes out next week and plays like Purdy just did he too would be close to no shot after that. If Tua plays great, he's the favorite, but he suffers a similar bed ####ting in week 18 and they lose the #1 seed, he's likely out too. It's been the year of mediocrity, that the MVP winner will be the most mediocre MVP in recent history seems about right.

One thing baseball has over the NFL is it's a lot easier to prove who MVP is, it's why Ohtani and Trout have multiple MVPs on a last place team. You could argue Calvin Johnson deserved MVP in 2012 because that's how valuable he was to the Lions, but a player on a 4-12 team will never even get a sniff in the NFL.