Nobody doubts Matthew Stafford is one of the top quarterbacks in the league today. However, that doesn’t automatically make him the MVP of the regular season, and New England Patriots fans are making that very clear to the NFL.
Stafford dominated the field from start to finish this season, leading the Los Angeles Rams to their seventh postseason appearance in the last 10 years.
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The 17-year veteran’s numbers were worthy of peak Tom Brady:
- 388 completions
- 597 pass attempts
- 4,707 yards
- 46 touchdowns
- 8 interceptions
- 109.2 passer rating
But Patriots fans are not impressed. For them, Drake Maye was and is the uncrowned MVP of the season.
Maye is the Patriots fans’ uncrowned MVP
It’s fair to say that no one considered New England a Super Bowl contender at the start of the season. The team finished 2014 with a 4-13 record, and no one expected much more from them this year.
However, as the regular season progressed, Maye established himself as one of the best quarterbacks of the year, by lifting the team from the bottom of the standings to Super Bowl LX.
That, combined with video game-worthy statistics, has Patriots fans up in arms against the NFL and the MVP voters with comments like:
- “Drake Maye robbed.”
- “Highway robbery. Can’t wait to shove it down everyone’s throats when he wins the MVP that matters.”
- “Picked the wrong guy.”
- “Maye was better.”
- “Elderly Man on Super Team Pity Award.”
- “Pity MVP.”
The subtle differences between Maye and Stafford
Drake Maye had very similar statistics to Stafford: 354 completions on 492 attempts, 4,394 yards, 31 touchdown passes, and eight interceptions.
But it’s not just that Stafford has been a step ahead in every metric; he’s also the first quarterback to lead the league in completions, passing yards, and touchdown-to-interception ratio since Brady in 2007.
Los Angeles fans, meanwhile, haven’t stopped telling their New England rivals that Maye played the easiest schedule not only in the league, but since the 2007 Rams.
Far from being over, the controversy is only going to intensify in the coming days, especially if Maye and his Patriots beat Sam Darnold’s Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl this Sunday.
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