Brees named AP offensive player of year

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Originally Posted by GMScud

Well, Manning led a team with an average defense and no running game on a 9 game winning streak, despite coming off pretty serious knee surgery that kept him out of training camp and had him hobbled the first few weeks of the regular season.

But Manning's stats don't really measure up with Brees this year. Brees was like 15 yards away from breaking the single season passing record. He torches everyone. I think if the Saints hadn't finished last in their division and made the playoffs, Brees would have been MVP.

Brees was also intercepted on the road with a Favre-ian kind of efficiency, so I think Manning was more valuable by virtue of that.

Manning might have been better per attempt as well, though I really don't want to look it up right now. Any QB who throws as many times as Brees did with put up an obscene amount of yards...given though, that 5,000 yards is far beyond obscene.