Lamar Jackson Leads MVP Odds Market: Analysis & Predictions

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00:00It's the MVP, MVP, which right now, Lamar Jackson extending his lead

00:05by doing nothing in the summer.

00:07You love to see that at a plus 430 price.

00:09Josh Young, 6-1, Burroughs, 6-1, Mahomes, plus 650.

00:12Talk to me about Lamar Jackson.

00:15He hasn't even played yet.

00:16Why is he extending, extending, extending his lead here?

00:20Yeah, I think, I don't know, the Ravens win a preseason game.

00:24It's like, oh, they're back.

00:25They're so back.

00:25This is probably going to carry over to the regular season.

00:28The tricky thing for Lamar, I mean, the comparisons for Jokic are so obvious

00:33as it relates to the MVP races, where, you know, Lamar Jackson rips off an MVP

00:39two seasons ago where it was all about the record.

00:44He should have not won league MVP.

00:45He was not close to the best player in the league that year,

00:48but it was the old school, who's the quarterback on the team

00:51with the best record, give it to him.

00:53And by the way, I say old school, that is entirely how that award worked

00:57until last year, the two best quarterbacks were Jared Goff, don't kid yourself,

01:02and Mahomes, who was average at best.

01:06But that was swept under the rug all season by everyone but me,

01:09and now all offseason, everyone's like, you think Mahomes will get back?

01:12Oh, interesting.

01:12I wonder where all that conversation was last year.

01:15That's neither here nor there.

01:16Mike, the tough sell for me on Lamar in the MVP race,

01:20and I think this is fair, there's no way he isn't worse this season

01:24than he was last season.

01:2641 passing touchdowns to four interceptions,

01:29one of the best passer rating seasons the league has ever seen,

01:33and doing that while being such an electric runner,

01:37maybe the Ravens go out there and go 15-2,

01:40and the award resets to best quarterback on the best team,

01:44because the Ravens could be that good of a football team this year,

01:49and that's probably why Lamar is positioned how he is.

01:53But if we're going to hold his stats up against his own stats from last season,

01:58he will take a step back.