​It's no secret that ESPN gets off on smearing the New England Patriots and Tom Brady.





We all know the drill; Curt Schilling even confirmed while he was working at ESPN that they do not like Tom Brady and the Patriots. Which is fine because we don't like them either.





Now ESPN is up to trying to sway the sports world in the MVP race. Dan Graziano put out an article titled "​The Case Against Tom Brady As MVP". ESPN would only write this type of article against New England. They would never do this against someone else, and that's a fact. In it, Dan explains:





Brady is brilliant, and his season was brilliant. The problem is that it wasn't a season. It was three-quarters of a season. And that's why Brady shouldn't win this particular award this particular year.

​​"As MVP-worthy categories go, 'games played' is and must be among the most important. A player's availability to his team is the place for any and all discussions of 'value' to begin."





I guess I'll waste some time debunking this guy because someone needs to. First off, he points out that the Patriots won without him. We can sit here and speculate all we want, but truth be told, the Patriots would have been 15-1 if Brady were in there. I can't hold those 4 games against him. If Brady were some new QB that took over a team after four games and went on to finish 14-2, I'm sure Mr. Graziano would consider him, but it's Tom Brady, so a smear will ensue.





Matt Ryan had a great season. I can't knock him, he's a solid player. But I can't put Ryan over Brady simply due to the fact that he did play all, 16 games yet won as many games as Tom Brady did playing in only 12. Matt Ryan had Julio Jones for 14 games, Brady had Gronk for four games. ​Nobody in this planet does more with less than Tom Brady. Brady will take guys off the street and turn them into Pro Bowlers.





Brady and Rodgers is another debate. The debate for Rodgers is that he won his final six games. Those same people apparently are blinded by the fact that Brady won his last seven games. But that's fine. Brady was consistent every single game he played this season, while Rodgers was a complete horror show the first half of the season. So are we now going to base Rogers being MVP on just the last six games? Seems sort of contradictory for the case against Brady.





What if Brady was injured? Would your opinion on his season change? It's simply due to the fact that the league suspended him. You can't knock a guy for that. Truth is, Brady doesn't care about the MVP. We will fight that battle for him, but honestly, he just wants that ring. He's coming for it, and that's not something ESPN can vote on. Sorry.