Exploring Jalen Hurts' Rising MVP Odds and NFL Race

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00:00Let's talk quarterbacks. Let's talk MVPs here, Joe. We were having a good Jalen Hurts conversation

00:08a few segments earlier. Maybe we should just continue it right here and now. He sits at

00:12plus 1,600. That's at the bottom of this list of four. Lamar Jackson at plus 110 as we go

00:18into play today.

00:19Yeah, I do think it's a four-person race right now. And I think Hurts, even though he's very

00:25far away from everybody else, I think that gap's potentially closing. So there's a scenario

00:31where we looked at that schedule, right? And by the time we get to the end here, he could

00:35be three or four to one. So this is one you could potentially make money on regardless

00:38if you have cash out options. He went from 20 to one to now 1,600. So we're getting right

00:44in this vein where everybody's starting to recognize the eagle's run here.

00:48What's in front of him? Patrick Mahomes with an undefeated team. The minute that goes bust,

00:52we start really looking at Patrick Mahomes statistically differently. Maybe. Josh Allen

00:57hanging on by the skin of his teeth and maybe the most valuable in terms of what he's been

01:01able to do to kind of will this Buffalo Bills team to continue to stay relevant with what's

01:05gone on. And we thought Amari Cooper would be the cure-all and it really isn't curing

01:09much of anything. It's become just another ill. And then there's Lamar Jackson playing

01:12out of his mind. He's the number one guy. He's still plus money and still, I think,

01:17the guy to beat for this award. But there is a scenario where when we're going into

01:22the last three weeks of the season that it's Lamar at, you know, minus money and Jalen

01:27Hurts like right around like plus 150. That's not impossible. So I think it's one to really

01:32look at. I don't think there's anybody else really viable for this award out. Brock Purdy

01:37is after him. Kyler Murray, Jared Goff is the other one you can make a case for because

01:42of the Lions record, but I just don't think he's going to end up getting into that media

01:47sphere potentially that these other guys are already there. And if they're Lamar Jackson

01:53MVP fatigue, we've seen that happen sometimes too, where they still want to vote for the

01:57same guy over and over again. There's usually windows with these things. We've been living

02:01in the Lamar window for a while. We were in the Patrick Mahomes window and we're kind

02:04of trying to figure out, are we going to stay in that window with those two guys? Are we

02:07going to look at maybe a Jalen Hurts or a Josh Allen? It's a four-team race, a four-person

02:11race rather, excuse me. And I do believe that Jalen Hurts, his number is going to shrink

02:15at least in half, if not more over now through the Thanksgiving holiday. So keep a close

02:21eye on that, see how it works out. But Lamar is still the man at the top of the mountain

02:25at MVP.