St. Louis Rams first half MVP

The leadership role he has taken for this team has helped them a lot more than he gets credit for. He’s become a different and an even better man taking on this role and the team looks up to him and are willing to play hard because of his inspiring play. Like you said, it was hard to pick a defensive player because they are all playing well. Chris Long’s endless pressure, Bartell’s coverage, Laurinaitis’ everything, OJ playing like OJ, James Hall’s resurgance. Ultimately, it had to go to Big Jack.

but steven probably is he’s the most consistant and actually ran the clock out when we were in a close ball game. But to me Sam came to a team that basicly was last years team not including saffold and new tight ends and got the offense going. rolling out of the pocket and throwing the ball on the run with accuracy have helped the team score in the redzone. I kno the whole team improved with a year under their belt but i think we’d still be winless or close to it if bulger was at the helm.

I am super stoked about Bradford, but our defense is lights out! It is a tough call even between the defensive choices there. I mean Hall in the top 10 in sacks this year. Long complements Hall with speed and relentlessness. Bartell shuts it down as well as revis or any of those guys. Atogwe it seems is money for a game changing play every sunday! But I feel like JL is the linchpin of the entire defense and the defense reflects his aggressive, hyper, motormouth, ADD, and slightly crazy personality! He is every bit the middle linebacker that lewis or urlacher are and he calls the right plays and puts the rest of the defense in the right position.

He has made all the difference on the DL.

SB was a distant third.

He’s been fine, but MVP? Hardly.

How is Sam Bradford running away with this? Our defense carries our offense, and SB isn’t even the offensive MVP, SJax is. The Animal is the MVP of the team

I’m not mad at all about Moss, in fact I am quite pleased with where Spags has us at the break. But I cant for the life of me remember what the 4 pillars where… refresh my memory please…

that its Sam or Sjax. However I think the overall effort of the team is much improved and the impedus from Sam, Sjax, the improved O-line and D-line, linebackers, everyone is feeding off each other. What a wonderful year to be a Rams fan.

You can say how far along he is for a rookie, but that doesn’t matter for the MVP. For the MVP, you need to play well and be valuable to your team. Without Sam, we’re 4-4. Without Steven, we’re maybe 3-5 if we’re lucky, likely 2-6. Also, if the defense weren’t playing so well, we’d be maybe 1-7.

i’m torn between sam, sjax, animal jr, and OJ

but someone PLEASE GIVE RONALD BARTELL A VOTE! he has been AWESOME!

If I’d have known he’d have no votes at this stage it’d handily go to him, he has blanketed receivers not only with skill but with HEART.
an integral reason why we don’t give up big plays (4th in league)

show some LOVE!

        Remember the good old days when quietly and out loud we thought of the LVP, and it was a 45 man tie for first.

Defense has been the best unit this year, and I think a lot of it is because of Chris Long’s leadership of the D-Line.

Really any of these guys could have been good though, lots of good players.

Which player has been the most valuable? That depends on your definition of value.

Most reporters choose the best player on the team. In this case, it’s Steven Jackson.

Value could also be best for the money. In that case it’s probably Danny Amendola.

If value is the player who most surpasses expectation, then the most valuable player is Ron Bartell.

Perhaps you think value can be defined as the player who has the most profound impact on the team. This would be Sam Bradford. His presence changed the attitude of the whole team.

I find myself siding with the last definition. Sam Bradford is the MVP.

When I read posts back to this time last year, we were voting about who we wanted to tar and feather. This year, MVP, ROM, and superman. WOW!!!!

SJ is doing what he does best. Year in and year out. The rich rookie came in and is running the team. Which in turn gives the D rest so that they don’t give up 30+ pts a game. I will be in attendance at next weeks lambs game. I can’t wait to crush SF.

…he makes Sam Bradfords job much easier and his leadership is very underrated. Having 8 men in the box to try and slow down Jackson should open it up for Bradford to hit his outstanding corps of recievers (sarcasm).

But honestly, I think we have a good problem here because our team MVP is not a clear cut favorite ala Peyton Manning, Chris Johnson or Ray Lewis. Just goes to show you that we are adding rock solid players to all facets of our team.

Sam has 57% percent to SJ’s 18%. Sam is going to be the league MVP multiple times but this team would not have come this far and meshed this well together without Big Jack’s leadership. Sam would be an impressive rookie, but I really believe Jackson is a big reason for how fast he is progressing. The guy isn’t even 30 but he’s like the father of this team, I really enjoy his press conferences. Give #39 some love, he did become the Rams all-time leading rusher, after all :)

IMO-We are where we are because of the “team” mentality and not on any individual. Does that mean the “coach” s/b the MVP (most valuable person), maybe, but right now I just do not think we are where we are because of an individual player.