The Adventures of MegaWatt
I love JJ Watt and I think he deserves the MVP award. QBs get all the credit, offense get’s all the credit, but nowhere in the league is a defensive player such an incredible force. JJ Watt is incredible and watching him feels like a privilege. It’s like watching the Peyton Manning of defense. I think the only thing he’s not good at is dancing, judging from that awful commercial with the school dance.
That said, he seems like a football robot. His famous letter response to his teammates who called him boring being a big example as to why. His later chastising Zach Mettenberger for taking a goofy selfie when he got the starting job is another. I wasn’t sure whether or not he was just trash talking, but with Watt it’s hard to know because he is such a football robot. He’s the kind of player old white people put on a pedestal. Big, strapping young fellow who pulls up his bootstraps and works hard and gives back. Doesn’t do any of that stupid stuff like party or clubbing. Probably would have been in the army if he didn’t play football. “Plays the game the right way”. He looks like the kind of player you’d see in a movie about High School Football, as either the tragic future all american who dies in a car crash or the asshole jock who learns to respect the protagonist. This isn’t a knock on Watt, there’s nothing wrong with who he is and you certainly can’t call him a bad person for this. The league could use more upstanding players like Watt and less players who beat their children/wives or might be actual murderers.
But seriously there’s also nothing wrong with selfies or having a good time, Watt. Stop hating fun.
Also, just in case you missed it, I made a twitter bet that if the Jags beat the Giants I’d draw Jaxson De Ville pooping on Eli Manning. I delivered.
Smacked the ‘tache off of him.
We need to see his money mobile suit again if you keep this character going.
That jags win was one of the most exciting game i’ve been too. It must hurt to lose after being up by 21, i know i was heartbroken when we were up by 17 to the eagles. Our offense still not very good. but our defense is still performing at a high level. I’m sure Tom is gonna get on the offense for coughing up the ball.
You mean for “Coughlin” up the ball?
Bill O’Brien must be poisoning his mind.
It JJ Watt doesn’t win MVP I will be legitimately upset. Not surprised, but definitely upset.
It would be a neat story but from an actual value standpoint he’s not even close. If JJ Watt were MVP worthy the Texans would not be 6-6.
If he were not MVP worthy, the Texans would be something like 0-12. He has single-handedly won games for the Texans – the worst team of 2013, in case anyone forgot – and he’s a freaking defensive player. In a 22-man sport.
Honestly, I don’t get why “playing for a winning team” is such a big deal when it comes to being a MVP candidate. If last year’s Broncos had the shittiest defense of all time and lost a dozen games or so despite being an offensive powerhouse, would that make Peyton Manning’s season less worthy of an MVP prize?
The fact someone plays for an average at best team doesn’t make him less valuable. That’s bullshit. Especially when said guy is a freaking defensive end (who’s scoring most touchdowns than a bunch of wide receivers, I should add). We are (or at least we should be) talking about WATT’S value here, not the Texans’ value. Come on.
They would still beat the raiders, at least one of the Tennessee games is still a win, you can probably chalk up both jags games as a win. Maybe even the Redskins. So that’s probably four wins at the end of the year. If they win out then they finish 10-6 with Watt.
Coincidentally, the 2010 Colts were 10-6, and the 2011 Colts were almost the exact same team but without Peyton Manning. They went 2-14. So best case (which isn’t going to happen) you’re arguing Watt is worth 6 wins. What would the Colts record be without Luck? Packers without Rodgers (we can project that one too, by the way, they were 2-5-1 when he got hurt last year and 6-2 with him healthy, so that’s eight wins too)? A quarterback will always be, and deservedly so, the MVP unless someone else has an absolutely historically dominant season. And even when Adrian Peterson did that two years ago he only got 60% of the first place votes.
Watt isn’t having that kind of season. He’s runaway the best/most valuable defensive player, but I’ll take at least five quarterbacks in the league before I consider him if we’re talking straight up value.
This is the kind of mentality that prevents defensive players from getting noticed for MVP discussions. Quarterbacks will always be more valuable then every other player on the field, so of course a QB is going to get all the respect. Offense in general is more valuable than defense, and one good player on offense can take over a game in a way that a defensive player simply cannot, because of how the game is played. In 2009 Revis had possibly the best season for any CB, ever. he didn’t sniff an MVP vote, because no matter how good he was, he is a guy assigned to essentially cover one dude.
Watt is leagues ahead of everyone for best defensive player of the past 3 years, and might genuinely be getting better, which is terrifying. Yet the best he can hope for is probably defensive player of the year, again. MVP has never really been about who is the most valuable, despite the name. It’s really just about who was the most outstanding player that season. Football is a team game. QBs can’t overcome bad weapons or protection problems, look at Brady before Gronk got healthy. Watt is doing a lot of this mostly by himself, right in the trenches, the most important place in any game. It’s time we started giving due credit to the defensive side of the ball.
I don’t disagree with your points but to me it’s like a pitcher winning MVP in baseball, which actually happened this year because there wasn’t really a standout offensive player and there was a pitcher who was beyond ridiculous. Also I think there’s a separate “most outstanding player” on offense anyway, which is where it differs from baseball.
I read Zach Mettenberger’s lines in Ned Flanders’ voice.
The ‘stache man..
The one thing I don’t get… how the hell did the Giants dumpster fire offense make him look invisible? Did Justin Pugh sell his soul to the devil to be able to single block Watt, and that’s why he was terrible for the rest of the season until hitting IR?
If it’s anything like the Bengals game where he got mostly shut out by Newhouse the answer was a loooooooot of holding.
The Texans had a few players missing on D that week, and we basically triple teamed him and ran away from him every play, and he still got a sack. Also our O-line was playing way better earlier this year.
Watt is amazing. Arguably the best player when he takes the field in many games. But he is not the most *VALUABLE*. Trade Andrew Luck for JJ Watt and see who wins that division. See who DOMINATES the division. Sorry, that’s just football. The most valuable player is the one who rallies the entire franchise around him and makes you a winner. JJ Watt is the top defensive player in the league but he is NOT the most valuable.
I thought Titans fans didn’t exist in the Draw Play universe…
No they exist, they are just rare like bigfoot,
Watt is the MVP in my heart.I love defense though and I love trench play. Envision a FB team as a rock band. Your Qb is the lead singer, WR RB are electric guitar, LBS are the drummers secondary is your go go dancers. ÖL and DL are the bass players… they are often forlorned and try to keep it all together.
#TrenchLyfe
If the lineman is the bass player, then JJ Watt is Les Claypool.
When people say the Watt can’t win the MVP award because he is a lineman, I ask how many QBs in the league as of now play On all sides of the ball. Watt clearly is the most valuable because he does everything!