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  <title>Should the Giants' offensive line be eligible for NFL MVP?</title>
  <published-at type="datetime">2008-12-04T13:26:57-05:00</published-at>
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        <created-at>2008-12-06T20:46:18-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>In all honesty the most valuable player award should truly go to the giants o-line. I had never even considered this until reading an article about it and finding out that it actually could happen. No one is talking about it, but they should be, if you really look at the giants their o-line is by far the MVP's and probably the MVP's of the league.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-05T08:43:53-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>why not.by far they are the best in football.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-05T08:22:14-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>it would be a tie between the giants O line, D line and the Titans D line</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-04T21:53:40-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Yes.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-04T20:46:52-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>yes they should without tem Giants are not 1</body>
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        <body>Something like this should have been done a LONG time ago

As a Colts fan, the 2006 Superbowl MVP shouldn't have gone to Manning...it should have gone to out offensive line</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-04T19:02:24-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Go G-men, give it to the entire O-line if not Eli. After they win the Super Bowl back to back seasons and Eli wins another SB MVP, the decision might get tougher. Just as long as it's not brady's cheating **** again.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-04T18:50:02-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Tony Romo. No team depends on a single player as much as the Cowboys do, as they proved under Brad Johnson.</body>
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        <body>The Giants offensive line has done a great job this season and the five of them should be contenders together for the MVP. They will split it if they win but my pick for MVP is Brandon Jacobs. He has nearly 1000 yards this season and he has been out 2 games. He has led his team to the top of the division and last year he led them with Eli Manning to the Super Bowl and won. The line has blocked him and that is where his success comes from. They are the reason for the success of the three headed monster with Jacobs, Derrick Ward, and Ahmad Bradshaw. They have been the league's best running back combination and have led the league in rushing yards. And how about Eli Manning's success? The line has given him time to throw the ball and that is why he hasn't been sacked as much. He has time to work in the pocket and deliver the ball perfectly because he has time. He has average 5 seconds before a defensive lineman can get a hand on him. The line will share the MVP award together and the five of them will also enjoy the hard worked for Super Bowl win.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-12-04T17:25:58-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>What next the punter?  Because he consistently pins the other team inside the 5?</body>
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  <body>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_center&quot; style=&quot;width: 615px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Giants' offensive line&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/giants-line.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Giants' offensive line&quot; width=&quot;615&quot; height=&quot;373&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;Should the Giants offensive line be serious candidates for the &lt;em&gt;Associated Press&lt;/em&gt; NFL MVP award? A campaign is mounting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;John W. McDonough/SI&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newsday &lt;/em&gt;sports media and business columnist &lt;strong&gt;Neil Best&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2008/12/tim_layden_one_of_the.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;proposes an interesting candidate&lt;/a&gt; for this year's &lt;em&gt;Associated Press&lt;/em&gt; NFL Most Valuable Player award: The offensive line of the New York Giants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best asked &lt;strong&gt;Dave Goldberg&lt;/strong&gt;, one of the AP football writers with intimate knowledge of the process, about the possibility of awarding the MVP award to a team's entire offensive line.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;We do a Player of the Week every week, and a couple of weeks ago we did the Giants' offensive line. We have 50 voters, and it's up to the 50 voters. But I would think there is nothing to prevent it. If X number of people voted for it, and they got the most votes, you'd say, yeah, it's five guys, but we've had ties. We had Brett Favre and Barry Sanders. It's kind of a novel idea. There's no clear-cut winner. You look at Drew Brees, who's going to put up big numbers on a last-place team. Kurt Warner has dropped off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Everyone says the key to the Giants' season is their offensive line, and the Giants are the best team in football. As individuals none of them is a superstar offensive lineman. Chris Snee is probably the best. I don't think it's a crazy idea. [Sports Illustrated's] Paul Zimmerman would love it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob Glauber&lt;/strong&gt;, veteran NFL columnist for &lt;em&gt;Newsday&lt;/em&gt;, called Best's proposal &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2008/12/watchdog_has_obtained_a_comple.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;an &quot;interesting idea&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in a live chat today. But what do you think? Does a group entity like the offensive line ever deserve an honor as prestigious as Most Valuable Player? Or should MVP always be reserved for individuals?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2008/12/tim_layden_one_of_the.html &quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MVP award administrator on Giants' o-line: why not?&lt;/a&gt; [Watchdog]&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2008/12/watchdog_has_obtained_a_comple.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bob Glauber calls Giants o-line MVP idea 'interesting'&lt;/a&gt; [Watchdog]&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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