Grant and Danny
Our 2024 MVP Predictions... Any Shockers?
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The Kellen Moore, offensive coordinator, Renaissance, all the weaponry, all of the schemes, the system, the design, it will work this year, close to 40 total touchdowns for a pro the golfins. It's going to win the NFC East to be the number two seed, maybe three seed in the NFC. I went with my bold prediction earlier of Jared Goff as the MVP is about 20, 25 to one, depending on where you're looking. It's not crazy. Fandal, 25 to one. Good value. He's not my pick unless we're doing bold predictions, but I definitely see a path to that for golf. I'll go with Josh Allen at the Buffalo Bills. They win the division. Less wide receiver help around him and the narrative is he did more. Maybe he did as a rusher. Maybe he's still at the 40 plus combined touchdowns and he did it with Curtis Samuel and a rookie wide receiver and Keon Coleman. But I'll say Allen who is eight to one to win the MVP gets the not over my homes. At some point, I think people just get tired of rooting or voting, you know, thinking about the same guy. It kind of go outside the box and say, Oh, who can I give it to? So burrow and Allen make the most. Hey, there were years that Michael Jordan didn't win the MVP. Carmel owned it. I'm so sure. Charles Barkley did. I'm so sure. George just want to give it to someone else. Yeah. People get bored. I think that's probably how it goes. Rookie of the year. I don't know how many people care about the defensive rookie of the air around these parts. So let's just go. Oh, Roy, boring chalk. I think we're about to see one of the most prolific rookie seasons in NFL history. The situation is perfect. It's Caleb Williams. I'm on the same page. It's just hard to fathom him not putting up really good numbers in that offense. And I also think having a top 10 defense means the team's going to be pretty good. And maybe they're not going to be behind as often as they have been the last couple of years. So the passing yardage comes down. But I predicted earlier 4,000 yards for Caleb Williams. I think both he and Bo Nick's do that. And I do think Caleb Williams get Chicago over 500 into the playoff mix and is the offensive rookie of the year. I think Jaden will push him though. I believe that. I think Daniels has a chance to be in the combo because as you know, I think he's going to run all over the place, make a lot of plays with his feet and with his arm. I think he'll be the ultimate kind of dual threat. And you add up all the numbers. They're going to be pretty impressive. Yeah. Some of the other guys to consider potentially Marvin Harrison Jr. is going to get a prominent role in Arizona. That guy could certainly put up some big numbers. If there's a, you know, let's say Caleb Williams misses three games or Jaden Daniels misses a couple and you know, neighbors goes for 1500 yards and 10 touchdowns. You could see something like that happening, right? But yeah, those one, two picks and quarterback, those are the, the, the prohibitive favorite, rightfully so. Here's my issue with any receiver, pretty much any non quarterback. Pukka Nakua this past season had the greatest rookie year we've ever seen at the position. Didn't win the award. 105 catches, 1480 yards, six touchdowns. Think about that. Yeah, you're right. Over a hundred catches in almost 1500 yards. And C.J. Stroud was really good. I'm not saying he wasn't, but it's not like C.J. Stroud threw 34 touchdowns or something. C.J. Stroud had 23 touchdowns and five picks. It was kind of griffinish. It wasn't, you know, a year we don't see. Dak did something like it. Griffin did something like it. And he still won the award over him. Yeah. So I just don't know if wide receivers in a narrative award voted on by human beings have a real chance. It's going to be Williams or Nix or Daniels or, you know, one of those QBs generally is how it goes. Just real quick. You mentioned defensive rookie of the year. Remember, this draft didn't have a defensive player taken until what was it? Like 13 or 14 or 15 something like that? Yeah. So I, like top of my head, I can't remember most of the guys that were taken. My sneaky favorite is Chop Robinson in Miami. They're going to pass a lot. He's going to pass rush a lot. Undiple some sacks. I like Dallas Turner as the defensive rookie of the year to the Vikings. Yeah. Minnesota. They took him as their edge rusher. He had a great preseason opener and rushed the quarterback a little bit. Also, look out for Jared verse was the defensive end with the Rams. They took in the first round. If you're looking for defensive rookie of the year options, how about your coach of the year in the NFL in 2024? If you were curious about odds, depends on where you're shopping. But Matt Eber flu's eight and a half to one. Jim Harbaugh, same Mike McDonald, 10 to one, Matt Mofloor, 12 to one where he morris 13 to one. Anything appeal to you there? Shane Steichen is my answer. Because again, I'm predicting a really nice season for the Colts 15 to one. I think Anthony Richardson has a really nice year. I'm, I'm a Colts believer. So I think he ends up winning it. I would go with maybe Mike McDonald, if Seattle, because they could go one way or the other. I just don't know what to think about them. I think they're one of the hardest teams to project and predict. But I could see Seattle maybe going like nine, eight, 10 and seven in a wildcard team and then McDonald in his first year as a coach of the year at 10 to one. The other one I would throw out there is Kevin O'Connell at 20 to one. Minnesota probably won't be good enough. But if they're a playoff team, Oh, yeah. With everything that happened? They go nine and eight. Like to me, that's a hell of a coaching job. And then I would just throw out Matt Loflor. What if they overtake Detroit in the north and win that division? Nobody thinks they're going to going into the season. Loflor would be in that conversation, I would think, right? You would think so. Yeah. I mean, just when it biscuits when we all think something's going to happen and then it doesn't and something positive took its place, that's where your coach of the year comes up. I know I don't know if that made any sense, but the whole world thinks Detroit's going to win that game by or win that division by three games. If Green Bay does, because they beat Detroit a couple of times and they're the best team, then you could see a Loflor rising at the top. All right. How about we go AFC North Ravens play tonight. So we got to go through our projected standings, finishing order. I know you have Baltimore winning the division. What do you have after Cincinnati game behind him? I think they're right there. They're frisky. They're team. Nobody would want to play in the playoffs, rightfully so when they were healthy, they went to a conference title game and they've been to the Super Bowl. So I got Baltimore one since you two, I think Cleveland finishes third, just because that defense is so good. They've got great personnel, but I think they're a quarter back away. I think Pittsburgh finishes fourth, losing tiebreaker, maybe eight and done. So I'll get cute, I guess, to make things a little different. I already had the Bengals win in the division. You know that. I'll say the Browns second and the Ravens third. So I'll go Cincinnati at maybe 12 and five Cleveland at 11 and six, maybe 10 and seven. And then I'll go with the Ravens at nine and eight outside looking in as either the last wild guard team or maybe even missing out on the playoffs, a little over 500. I'm not completely convinced Lamar Jackson will make it through a fully healthy season again. When he's done that, he's been an MVP a couple times in the last four seasons, but obviously he has issues at times finishing the year out. That was the case in two of the last three years. So that's a factor for me generally with him. Also, I've talked about this probably too much, but I mean, they lost a lot on the defensive coaching staff on the defensive side of the ball. I've still got some questions there. I've heard good things about Zach or their new defensive coordinator. And I'll be rooting for him because he's a really young coach getting a shot. And I'm into that. But I think they're going to miss Mike McDonald, who we just mentioned is now in Seattle as the head coach of the Seahawks. So I'll go Bengals one. Browns two. My bugaboo there is obviously Deshawn Watson is just not that good. But they're so good everywhere else. I think they're going to be great defensively. And I do like their weapons around him to elevate him to basically, you know, slightly above average quarterback play maybe. And that should be enough to get them to double digits. And then I'll have the Steelers rounding it out as well. You said this earlier today that your surprise, I guess, or disappointment would be the Pittsburgh because you have them maybe under 500 for the first time on the first time. I could see that. I don't like the quarterback situation with Wilson. I don't know. The fields is any better. Although I think he'll start more games and it's just how many years can you finish nine and eight or 10 and seven with a bad offense? At some point the clock's going to strike midday. Yeah, they got away with it with like guts and bubblegum and heart and whatever grit last year, somehow winning those nine games. They won a game where I think the offense had like 12 yards numbers approximate. The schedule is not easy. In my opinion, it gets harder because again, you don't have the easy button for your offense. I think it's going to be a struggle. Even though I like Arthur Smith, especially as an offensive mind, go back to what he did in Tennessee. Pretty innovative, pretty smart, pretty sharp. Turn Ryan Tannehill into somebody that was serviceable and decent. But I just don't see it. I don't see it with this Pittsburgh team. They're built on defense, good coaching and tough this. And that only goes so far. They also aren't good at wide receiver outside of George Pickens. Nobody seems to care about that. George Pickens, everyone claims is a wide receiver one. I think he's kind of one dimensional. He always catches the ball along the sideline on basically nine route type stuff. He's taken a couple slants and inbreakers at the line of scrimmage to the house, but just not a whole lot of diversity to his portfolio to me. But beyond him, it's Calvin Austin, Van Jefferson, who's on like his fourth team. They drafted Roman Wilson in the third round. It was buried on the depth chart right now. The former speedster with the bucks when Brady was there, Scotty Miller is with the Steelers now. But I don't know. That's just, that's not a very good receiver. And we're not used to that. By the way, Pittsburgh, you know, every team's got something they always seem to get right. Pittsburgh was receiver you basically, right? Like just one guy would give away to the next guy who was just a superstar at that spot. And they just haven't had that really, they traded Deontay Johnson, who dropped a lot of passes, but caught a ton of passes as well for them the last few years to the AFC Carolina, excuse me, to Carolina, right to the Panthers. And by getting him out of the division to the end, to the NFC and the other conference, they don't have to worry about it. But at the same time, I think they're going to worry about their receiver room. How about we pivot to the AFC West with the Chiefs hosting the Ravens tonight. Picking order in that division starts for both of us with Kansas City. What's it look like after that? So I think the Chargers are going to be massively improved. Now, I think that you lower your ceiling when you play this way, but you raise your floor. They're going to be Smash Mouth, Nebraska in the 90s, wishbone, tongue of cheek here. But basically, they're going to thump. Josh Palmer's their best wide out who is basically a tight end. They're going to play heavy, try to make it easy on Justin Herbert, make a player to that way. But you know, this is what Jim Harbaugh does. He rolls in, plays his style, plays his way. You're going to win more with that guy in charge. So you're going to have to deal with some personality stuff. Like it's going to be difficult. He's going to be alienate a bunch of people and make it hard to work with him. But your football team is going to get better. So it's certainly the price you pay. I think the Chargers ascend in that division, mostly because I don't think anyone else is any good. I'm going to say second behind the Chiefs would be the Chargers as well. I'm higher on the Broncos. I think than a lot of people. I like Sean Payton more who's like, give me a level. Like if they finished second over the Chargers, it wouldn't surprise me. Like that high like I picked Bo Nick's to go for 4,000 yards earlier in the day. You know, now I don't love Bo Nick's long term or anything like that. I think he's a good fit with Peyton. I think they're going to have a pretty good thing this year with a quick game and how they operate and insulate him offensively. But I'm going to say you know, Chiefs 11 and six because they're not going to really have to hit the gas pedal very often. They'll lose a couple games just kind of taking weeks off proverbially that they don't need to win. Probably could be better than that, but won't then I'll say the Chargers are nine and eight. The Broncos are eight and nine and the Raiders are seven and 10 kind of spread out that way. And we sleep on the fact that Broncos last year eight and nine. Like everyone thinks they're going to stink on ice and be terrible. They were awful in the beginning of the season. We saw that firsthand with Washington, but they I think they finished seven and four down the stretch without all that much and now hand pick quarterback. Again, I think it's probably unfair to expect the world from for Bo Nick's initially, but the fit is really good with he and Sean Payton. You could just picture kind of like that New Orleans style 2.0 outside. Super quick passes, running backs involved, keeping things close to the line of scrimmage. Maybe the occasional shot play, but that's not what they major in. They're not bad. I think they've finished third net. This is kind of where I'm going. I mean, they got a decent cast too. Courtland Sutton, Josh Reynolds, Marvin Mims. They drafted two receivers in rounds four and seven as well. Javante Williams, Jalil McLachlan's kind of an undervalued, underrated running back. Autric estimate, they drafted in the fifth round as well. Pretty deep at that position. I still like Adam Troutman, who Sean Payton had experience with in New Orleans. Greg Dolsich comes over at tight end, a former third round pick. So yeah, there's a lot to like to me about that offense. I'm curious about the defense. I'm not really sold yet. I know Payton and Lombardi will do a pretty good job when they've got the ball. Vance Joseph having the time of his life on the defensive side of the ball. Still got some questions there. Special teams coordinator there, by the way, former commander's great, Ben Katweka. Is that right? Yeah, he's in Denver. Well, I think Greg Winoski's there too, by the way. Are you kidding me? Inside linebackers. I think I think I read that. I think that's a random thing to think that you know. I think I think it. I'll take your word for it. If you told me Greg Winoski live next to me, I would say that might be the case. If you told me coach for the Broncos, I would also say maybe I can confirm he is the inside linebackers coach as of last year. Here we go. Denver Broncos. Greg Minas score one for Danny. Oh, Greg Minas. - Still hiccing. - Still hiccing.