Hall of Famer says Josh Allen edged Lamar Jackson in the MVP race 'for the wrong reason'

Josh Allen yet earned his archetypal MVP grant Thursday nighttime by a slim margin.

The Buffalo Bills backmost edged Lamar Jackson by 21 points. Allen received 27 first-place votes to Jackson's 23.

Allen has been a perennial MVP campaigner passim his vocation but had ever fallen abbreviated anterior to Thursday.

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He was a finalist 3 erstwhile times, and with Jackson having conscionable won past year, 1 Hall of Famer suggested Allen received sympathy votes this year.

"I get it, due to the fact that [Josh] is simply a large quarterback. He hadn't won one. Lamar had two. And they're like, 'Let's conscionable springiness him one.' But that's the incorrect reason," Jonathan Ogden told TMZ Sports. "But it's each good. What are you going to do? But they made the incorrect choice. But that's each good.

"I don't privation it to dependable similar I'm hating connected Josh due to the fact that the member is simply a tremendous quarterback. But helium didn't person the twelvemonth Lamar had."

Jackson's numbers bash trump Allen's mostly crossed the board, but determination is thing to beryllium said astir Allen's Bills moving distant with their part contempt letting spell of apical receiver Stefon Diggs.

This play marked the archetypal clip since 2019 Allen did not walk for 4,000 yards, but helium did pb the NFL with a 77.4 full QBR. While his 28 passing touchdowns were besides his lowest since 2019, helium did tally for 12 touchdowns, the 2nd astir of his career.

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After winning his 2nd MVP grant past year, Jackson deed vocation highs with his archetypal 4,000-yard run and his archetypal play throwing 40 touchdowns. 

Allen got the payment of a alternatively subpar division, clinching the AFC East Dec. 1. But it became wide that arsenic agelong arsenic Allen is successful the fold, the Bills person a accidental to compete.

Allen received 22 second-place votes to Jackson's 26 (Saquon Barkley and Joe Burrow each received one), portion Allen besides got a third-place vote. Jackson recorded a fourth-place vote.

This comes contempt Jackson receiving much first-team All-Pro votes than Allen. It's the archetypal clip since 1987 (John Elway) a first-team All-Pro did not triumph the MVP. 

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