"those who believe Stafford is still owed the award are coming out of the woodwork to downplay what Maye has accomplished to further push their pro-Stafford agenda, with their biggest argument being the Patriots' weak schedule. Although that shouldn't be a valid source of arguing why a player doesn't deserve be called the most valuable in the league, especially since it has never mattered in the past, it has become the favorite talking point by Maye and Patriots doubters."
"What makes this better than what he wrote is that Warner won MVP in 1999 and played an easier strength of schedule in 1999. The Rams went on to win the Super Bowl that season, earning the nickname "Greatest Show on Turf," and they're considered one of the best teams in NFL history. Yet for some reason, nobody pointed to their strength of schedule as a reason Warner didn't deserve MVP, so hearing his defense of Maye is exactly what the doubters (haters) needed."
Drake Maye became the MVP frontrunner after Matthew Stafford's loss to the Falcons with one regular-season game remaining. Critics argue Maye's MVP case is weakened by a soft Patriots schedule and claim strength of schedule undermines his accomplishments. Kurt Warner publicly rejected schedule-based criticism and defended Maye's candidacy, noting that his own 1999 MVP came amid an easier schedule and culminated in a Super Bowl for the Rams. Warner emphasized that schedule comparisons did not strip value from past MVPs and challenged doubters who use schedule as the primary disqualifier.
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