In the last 30 years, running backs have been Super Bowl MVP 3 times. Yippee. Even Walter Payton didn't win MVP, and he was a much more complete back than AP. But in the same 30 years, QBs have been MVP 16 times. Deserved or not, QBs seem to be getting more than an even-steven share of the credit for their "SB Caliber teams". Does that answer your question?Slick Rick wrote: This isn't any better than your last post. Which QBs are "elite". I would take Peterson over almost any of the QBs in this league, several of them being considered "elite" by people who like to throw the term around. It is a fallacy, there's no other way to describe people who think that every QB that plays well and wins SBs as elite. The only real consistent statistical giant for all QBs is Peyton Manning and maybe Aaron Rodgers. Tom Brady and Drew Brees have both had periods where they were more like how we consider Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger.
Do Super Bowl teams usually have great QBs, or do great QBs usually play for Super Bowl caliber teams?
Not all of those QBs were what I would call "elite", but its a pretty good list of pretty good qbs. Clearly quarterbacks have had a bigger impact on the big game than running backs in recent history. And if you look at the names on the list-Brees, Brady, Favre, Montana, Aikman, Manning & Manning, Rodgers, there are some darned good QBs there. If we can get to a SB, Adrian is clearly the kind of RB who could be MVP. But in 7 years he hasn't gotten us anywhere near a SB. Who did? Favre, a QB. Meanwhile the Mannings and Brees and Rodgers have been there 4 times in those same 7 years, and not only were the MVPs once they got there, they are a large part of the reason their teams got there. To his credit, AP did help us get to the playoffs during his unlikely to be duplicated, super-human streak.
But the smart GM would trade Peterson for any one of those qbs (except Brees cuz I don't like him, and Brady and P Manning are too long in the tooth). Nothing against AP, but they have greater chance to bring us a SB than an MVP running back. But nobody is stupid enough to make that trade. And hopefully we don't have to. Hopefully Teddy will get his name on that list.
Favre helped them them get to the 2009 championship game but his contribution doesn't trump Peterson's and shouldn't be used to minimize it.
) to our record that year. In 2008 we had a 6th ranked defense with Frerotte and won two less games (10-6). Basically, if I oversimplify the argument (which some are doing by implying/suggesting that Peterson's performance "doesn't impact the team as much") I can say that a HOF QB year is nets us only two extra victories per year over Gus Frerotte/Tarvaris Jackson. If that doesn't minimize the QB position I don't know what does... 
