Peyton Manning is the most valuable player of the NFL this year – and he didn't play in a single game.  Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Drew Brees are good quarterbacks, but not one of them is the most valuable player of the league.  MVP is supposed to go to the key player in the NFL who is most valuable to their team, and whose play is the key to the entire teams' sucess.  

The Colts went 2-14 this year because Peyton was hurt.  Peyton Manning is essentially an entire NFL team.  There are 22 starting players on the Colts, yet when Peyton got replaced they lost 80% more games than in the previous years – all because 1/22nd of the team was replaced.  

You may argue that if Rodgers was hurt the same thing would happen to the Pack; or if Brady was out the Pats would be lost – Wrong.  Just look at the Packer's backup QB Matt Flynn, who made his second career start on Sunday and torched the Detroit Lions for 480 passing yards and six touchdowns while Rodgers rode the pine.  And remember Matt Castle on the Patriots?  The Patriots went 11-5 in 2008 and beat the Jets twice while Brady was out.  Those are great teams with good quarterbacks.  The Colts however are a shitty team with the Most Valuable Player to ever play the game.  By not throwing a single ball this year he consequentially should win this award; I don't see how you could argue that?