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Many souls and today we're doing some award selections. We got MVP coach of the year. All that stuff. How are you feeling? Do you have everything kind of nailed down? You feel good about your selections?

Do you think we're going to have duplicates? Do you think we're going to be yelling at each other in eight minutes? What are your predictions just for this episode?

Easier as part of the year. Imagine not having already bet on MVP and coach of the year and off as a rookie of the year and defense of the year. We just we just scrolling through the

fan to a wallet and saying, oh, yeah, this is what I think's what MVP. That's who it is. Right. Good reminder. Good reminder. Well, good because you're going on the road this afternoon. So I'm glad that you didn't have to do. You know, you're like, I got this. This one's going to be easy. I've had my picks ready since April. So that'll be good. And at the end, Ben, I was thinking, I didn't tell you this, but I think for the extra point taken. I think today's the day we pick our team. You know, I think it's gone long enough. I've been thinking about it. It's narrowed down. I think we have to come to a decision at the end of today's show. What do you think?

I have also I've internally come to a decision. I know who I will be advocating for our team. I realize it over the course this weekend. Okay. Well, I'm notoriously indecisive. So as long as it's like one of three teams that I'm okay with. I'll be more than happy to just let you make the final decision there. So we'll do that in the final segment art. Let's get started. You want to start with you. Do we start with MVP or do we end with MVP? Is there suspense or not really should we just start with the biggest one? Sorry MVP. I feel like all the awards are interesting. It's not like it's like, you know, yeah.

Stabbing in the darkness. Who wins MVP is that much different than stabbing in the dark to win. See if it's a rookie here. I agree. All right. Let's start with MVP. Go ahead. Give us your choices now. So the list. There's no. We're not just going to be like, all right. You know, the favorite is our pick. Well, we're going to look at some of the fan dual odds. We're going to go down the list a little bit. Say, hey, we like this guy. But if you're looking for a sleeper, this guy might be good. So who do you have or what was your kind of process for who you think's going to be the MVP this year? Last year, my longest bet on MVP was Trevor Lawrence.

50 to one this year, one of my biggest bets for MVP is Trevor Lawrence at 16 to one, which is currently there on Fandall. I imagine this is one that you have as well.

Conor Allen at Conor Allen NFL is a wonderful gambling follow on Twitter. If you're into like learning about that sort of stuff. He works for football. I had a great tweet. How to bound NFL MVP qualifications. Quarterbacks have won MVP in 15 to last 16 years.

So as much as I would love to get up here and be like, Christian McCaffrey is extremely valuable to his team. If you place for 17 games, the 90s win a bunch of games with Brock, but a quarterbacks winning MVP. It's just a quarterback.

Every quarterback MVP. This is Conor Allen again has won 11 plus games. And every MVP since 2010 has had a preseason win total of 8.5 or more. So at those two lines of telling us is every quarterback wins MVP has a team that at the beginning of the season, we think is going to be at least pretty good.

And then that team ends up really good. I also have memory serves. It's like 18 of the last 20 MVP has been on teams in which they're they won the division. Right. So I'm looking for a quarterback of a division winning team. That's going to win a lot of games.

Let me add a couple more before you get because I was doing the same research. Yes. So the past 10 seasons. It's gone to the QB and not only division winner, Ben. It's gone to the QB of the one or the two seed.

Each of the past 10 seasons. So not only do you win your division, but you have to be one of the top two teams in your conference. And you mentioned 11 wins nine times in the last 10 seasons.

The team has had 12 wins or more. So this is very much like best, you know, most important position best player on one of the best teams. Like that. That is the award for you know, to go to what you're saying there.

So let's do it. We all think the Jags were in the division because the AFC South is pretty weak. Right. The Jags have been easier than average schedule by by a strength schedule. You've also more in chart.

The Jags would have qualified for all this last year. If they didn't start to and freaking seven, which again, as somebody who had a chair, Lawrence MVP ticket. I was very dialed in on the Jags start to the season and finish to the season.

It's reasonable to expect them to be a double-digit win team this year. There are 9.5 win total at at Fandall right now. So if you have an above average Jags season, 11 win Jags, 12 win Jags.

They're pushing for the AFC one or two seed. They're they're at that 11 win threshold. And you sort of send down and doling out. Okay. Who are going to give credit to here? Right. Like who who are going to acknowledge with awards.

The window for Doug Peterson coach of the year was last year and they didn't hit it. Right. I will get to coach here in a little bit, but it's very rare that I.

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