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Bills quarterback Josh Allen has been compared to Drake Maye of the Patriots.
After Sunday afternoon’s three-touchdown performance from quarterback Josh Allen, his MVP odds skyrocketed with his Buffalo Bills becoming the winners of three straight. The reigning 2024 NFL MVP now sits just behind New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye as the player with the second and third-highest odds.
However, Fox Sports personality Nick Wright does not think Allen is deserving of this honor.
“I will never put anything past NFL MVP voters and their infatuation with Josh Allen,” Wright said. “Certainly I can (see Allen winning MVP). Do I think it’s at all legitimate, barring an absolute collapse — a true collapse — by Matthew Stafford? No.”
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is becoming the runaway favorite to win the award. He has completed 66% of his passes for the NFC’s first-seeded Rams. He has totalled 3,722 yards through 14 games, with 37 touchdowns and only 5 interceptions.
Allen’s ‘Mediocre’ Month
Wright’s main argument hinges on Josh Allen’s “mediocre” month. This is referring to the 2-2 split in November, immediately after the Bills beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
“The MVP is the MVP… it is the single most prestigious individual honor in the sport,” Wright continued. “It is totally fair to nitpick, and to request that the guy who is going to win the award be said, ‘Hey, of the 1,700 players in the league, you were the single most valuable player in the league,’ that we say ‘Hey, just don’t have mediocre months of football.’”
In that month, he threw at least one interception in every single game, including back-to-back two-interception games.
In the 23-19 loss to the Houston Texans, Allen threw zero touchdowns and two picks while only attempting five rushes for 20 yards. The next week, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Allen barely surpassed 100 passing yards in the Bills’ 26-7 win.
“What is so frustrating to me about Josh, and the way he’s talked about in the MVP voting,” Wright continued. “Even though I think — now that Patrick’s hurt — I think he’s the best healthy player in the league, I think he’s been the second best quarterback in the league the last couple years…
“He’s the only guy that can have a full month of mediocre football, individually and team-wise, and this be the conversation.”
However, sandwiched between those two games was a six-touchdown onslaught to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home.
Wright Says Allen Always Receives Favorable Treatment
The analyst pointed to a pair of bad games Allen played during last season’s historic MVP campaign. In a year in which Allen was neck and neck with two-time MVP Lamar Jackson, the award went to Allen, who was outperformed in almost every statistical category.
“Last season, in the year he won the MVP, he had the 9/30 game against the Texans where we talked about how he had the lowest completion percentage in history,” Wright continued. “This year he has five multi-turnover games; he has five games less than 200 yards…
“He, by no measure, has been better than Matthew Stafford.”
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