Matthew Stafford is the REAL NFL MVP, NOT Drake Maye & Myles Garrett Domination Leads to Easy DPOY

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The NFL season is over and that means it is time to talk AWARDS. For the MVP, Matthew Stafford is the clear MVP over Drake Maye. Maye dominated the weakest schedule in recent memory while Stafford led the Rams through the toughest division in football with far better numbers. The offensive player of the year discussion is really down to two wide receivers who also reside in the NFC West, but Jaxon Smith-Njigba deserves the award more than Puka Nacua. On defense, there is not much discussion to be had as Myles Garrett had the greatest season for a pass rusher in NFL history, breaking the all time sack record in less snaps than the two previous holders. Finally, coach of the year is especially difficult, but the job Mike MacDonald has done with the Seahawks deserves the award based on the defensive performance and the risky offseason changes. Offensive rookie of the year should go to Tetairoa McMillan and not a quarterback while the defensive rookie of the year award so go to another Seahawk, Nick Emmanwori.

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0:00.0	Matthew Stafford is the real MVP of the 2025 NFL season, but Luke's betting on Drake May.
0:08.6	We'll break it down on today's edition of Locked on NFL.
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0:45.5	Tyler Rowland, joined today by Locked-on NFL expert, The Brain, Luke Braun.
0:49.8	On today's episode, we are going to debate the big time NFL awards.
0:55.0	We're going to talk about who should win coach of the year and it is crowded.
0:59.0	We'll talk about the offensive and defensive players of the year that aren't quite as crowded races,
1:04.0	but we got to start with the hottest race of them all, the National Football League MVP and spoiler alert folks, me and Luke do not agree on the winner.
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