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This will have to serve as the final MVP Update.  The voting is finished as of yesterday.  We should know the results on Saturday.  Here is one voter’s reasoning<\/a> for casting his vote for Peyton Manning.  Dave Goldberg an NFL writer for the AP voted for Pennington<\/a>.  Notice how he refers to the Manning candidacy as ‘a bit boring’.  Marvez was conflicted<\/a>, but went with Peyton.  Good man.  <\/p>\n

I believe that John Clayton, Christ Mortensen, and Peter King all came out and said they were voting for Manning.  Those five votes give Manning a good base of support.  Pennington’s campaign came on so late that it will be very tough for him.  Beating the Jets in a widely broadcast game was obviously huge.  The writers loooove that storyline, but will they want to pick an MVP who might be embarrassed by a tough defense on wildcard weekend?    <\/p>\n

Here is how I predict the voting goes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peyton Manning – 16 votes.  Chad Pennington – 12 votes.  Adrian Peterson – 5 votes.  Michael Turner – 4 votes.  Philip Rivers – 4 votes.  DeAngelo Williams – 4 votes.  James Harrison – 2 votes.  Matt Ryan – 2 votes.  Drew Brees – 1 vote.<\/p>\n

I am trying to be conservative here (in order to keep my #18 homerism in check).  My gut says Manning should get around 20 votes while no one else gets more than 10.  As far as I can tell it is a two man race.  It is fitting that the man in second never even made my top 5 list until this week.  It has been one of those strange years.  I will be shocked and angry if Pennington pulls the upset.  He has a chance because so many voters were undecided up until the last minute.  Honestly, I thought Rivers would get more buzz for willing his team into the playoffs.  I don’t see it turning out that way, though.  It looks like Manning to me.   <\/p>\n

Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESPN puts together some stupid list of coaches<\/a>.  Anyway, Dungy’s on it.    <\/p>\n

CHFF lists Indy as the “Team of the Year”<\/a>     <\/p>\n

Kuharsky grades out the year<\/a>.    <\/p>\n

Brackett is out<\/a>.  I’ll give you some terrifying stats in Eyes tomorrow about why that is so very very bad. <\/p>\n

NY Times preview of the game via FO<\/a>.  Cool play animation.  <\/p>\n

Here’s a DVOA based look at the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bucky didn’t change his mind on 18<\/a>.  He says he’s the MVP. <\/p>\n

Manning and Dungy talk about the possibility that 18 is MVP<\/a><\/p>\n

The Football Scientist says the AFC South was strong<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a tad old, but Florio says the Colts are scary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will have to serve as the final MVP Update.  The voting is finished as of yesterday.  We should know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639887],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe votes have been cast - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The votes have been cast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-12-30T12:11:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"The votes have been cast\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-12-30T12:11:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-12-30T12:11:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/\"},\"wordCount\":519,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Colts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2008\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the_votes_have_been_cast\/\",\"name\":\"The votes have been cast - 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