Not a prayer.

Traditionally the MVP has gone to the QB whom had the best stats of the #1 seeded teams.

It's why Lamar Jackson, while not having the best stats, won MVP last year.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out as we're in the driver's seat for the #1 seed at the moment, while our QB has been rather ordinary.

The Marty Ball is here for a few reasons.

1. Our Oline has been "meh" in pass protection"

2. Our receiving group is depleted.

3. Mahomes isn't seeing the field well or throwing well either. And he really hasn't been for awhile now.

I talked about this during the game with some friends…

IF we go undefeated, absolutely Mahomes is in the conversation for MVP, but that’s what it’ll take this year for him to get the recognition without big stat lines.

None

Part of me hopes we go 17-0 with Pat putting up a stat line of something like 4,000 yards, 20 TDs and 17 INTs to win the MVP.

That would reeeallly piss everyone off lol

Maybe not at the time.

But it's possible, I'll grant you.

I won't say Marty is the reason he doesn't have a Super Bowl ring. Bad luck can certainly keep some great coaches from getting one (though there's a reason Marty is the first one to come to mind).

However, there's a difference between 'Doesn't have a ring' and 'loses 3/4 of his playoff games'.

Marty went 5-13 in the post-season, fellas. That's AWFUL. That's not bad luck, that's bad coaching.

I mean just go through the ranks of coaching wins. Lets set the cut-off at 100 wins (that's a damn good, but not great career).

There are just a handful of dudes with playoff records as bad/worse than Marty.

Steve Owen: 2-8
Marvin Lewis: 0-7
Jim Mora: 0-6
Sid Gilman: 1-5
George Allen: 2-7

Steve Owen coached in the 30s. George Allen at least won a conference championship.

So you've got Marty, Marvin, Mora and Sid Gilman.

Those...uh...aren't great coaches. And I'm hard pressed to say the rest of that group was even good.

Being 6-0 and winning with clutchness late means it has bought Mahomes a chance to still make it happen. Just think it's gonna require an insane TD-INT ratio the rest of the way.

I’m confident the INTs are going to really slow down. Each of the last 3 in the last two games are just bad luck. He hasn’t had the same issues as the first four games. Now if he can get on a roll with TDs to go with that he can become a legitimate MVP candidate again.

Lamar won last year because he put up decent stats but was the QB of the best team in the league. Mahomes doesn’t need to lead the league in most passing stats to win MVP, but he needs to do better than what he’s shown so far this year.

He's got 6 TDs and 8 INTs for the season and you think he should win MVP?

No way in hell. He's not playing at an MVP level and I'm sure he would be the first to admit that

He's mentioned this, but if he hits the passes that he has available, the ints will come down.

The 2nd pick, for instance, just flat doesn't happen if he hits the deep ball to Worthy 2 plays previously. The pick was bad luck but it was bad play that put him in that position to begin with.

And heck, the first pick may not happen if he doesn't take the sack the play before.

Some of those interceptions will always be there, but a lot of them will go away if the plays AROUND them get cleaned up. And with the team generally being efficient (though not explosive), they are executing more often than they aren't.

Give him it. As far as I'm concerned, like LeBron in his prime, he should get it every season.

The stats aren't going to be there this year, but that is for reasons largely out of his control (i.e. having the worst group of WRs in the league after virtually all of his weapons got hurt). He remains the best player in football when it matters.

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Go **** yourself with that take. Marty was the 2nd best coach this franchise has ever had and with any luck he'd be in the HOF.