鈥?For the third time
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goes for his sixth Super Bowl title, and perhaps with it a fifth MVP trophy for
the NFL championship.Brady added The Associated Press 2017 NFL MVP award
Saturday night at NFL Honors to his wins in 2007 and 2010. The New England
Patriots quarterback was joined as an honoree by three Los Angeles Rams: Coach
of the Year Sean McVay, Offensive Player of the Year running back Todd Gurley
and Defensive Player of the Year tackle Aaron Donald.Other winners in voting by
a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league were Los
Angeles Chargers receiver Keenan Allen as Comeback Player; New Orleans running
back Alvin Kamara and cornerback Marshon Lattimore as top offensive and
defensive rookies, respectively; and former Minnesota Vikings offensive
coordinator Pat Shurmur, now head coach of the New York Giants, as Assistant
Coach of the Year.Brady is the second player in the four major professional
sports to win MVP at age 40; Barry Bonds won baseball’s award in 2004.Wide
receiver Julian Edelman, who missed the entire season with a knee injury,
accepted for Brady.“Thanks, thanks. Wait up. I literally just found out I was
doing this like 20 minutes ago. So, I’ve got to read the text,” Edelman
said.“No, but I’m joking. But serious, Tom said he wanted to say he’s very
honored and humbled that he gets this award for MVP. Also
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friends, his family and the Patriots organization for going out and doing what
they do.”Brady competed 385 of 581 passes (66.2 percent) for 4,577 yards and 32
touchdowns with eight interceptions as New England went 13-3 for the AFC’s best
record. At an age when many QBs are deep into retirement, Brady is throwing deep
鈥?and short 鈥?as well as ever.Donald was the first pure defensive tackle to win
the award since Warren Sapp in 1999. He said it means “everything. That’s one of
the best to ever do it. So, even for my name to be next to that guy’s name is
beyond a blessing. This is what you dream about as a kid, dreaming about playing
in the NFL to have success like this, to be able to (play good enough) to win
this trophy.”Gurley’s sensational turnaround season, in which he ran for 13
touchdowns and caught six TD passes, sparked an equally impressive reversal of
fortunes by his team, which won the NFC West at 11-5.“The Saints got the rookies
and we took home the offensive and defensive” player awards,” Gurley noted. “It
just tells you the type of players we have on the team. We all help each other
out, absolutely. We have some talent
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everybody together. And we also have a coach who’s up for Coach of the Year.”A
little while later, McVay was handed the coaching award.In his first season
running a team and as the youngest head coach in NFL history, McVay led the Rams
to a seven-game improvement. McVay, who turned 32 on Jan. 24, ran away with the
voting with 35 votes to 11 for Minnesota’s Mike Zimmer.“What it means is we had
a good season that I think we can build on,” McVay said. “But you have to earn
it every single day. It’s a very humbling league.”The Rams’ hat trick of awards
was not unprecedented. In 2003, Baltimore’s Ray Lewis was top defensive player,
Jamal Lewis won best offensive player and Terrell Suggs was Defensive Rookie of
the Year. And in 1999, the St. Louis Rams had three award winners: Kurt Warner
(MVP), Marshall Faulk (Offensive Player) and Dick Vermeil (Coach).New Orleans’
sweep of the rookie awards was the first since 1967, when Detroit running back
Mel Farr and cornerback Lem Barney were honored. That was the first season for
the top defensive rookie award.“You get caught up in the season, you don’t
really get time to pat yourself on the back,” Kamara said. “But when the season
is over you realize what you’ve done. I’ve kind of had to time to look back and
say
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duties with veteran Mark Ingram as the Saints won the NFC South. He rushed for
728 yards with a 6.1-yard average, and scored eight times. He also caught 81
passes for 826 yards, with five touchdowns.The 11th overall draft pick and first
from his position selected, Lattimore was a shutdown defender as the Saints went
11-5. He had five interceptions and 18 passes defensed in 13 games, was a sure
tackler and, by midseason, was someone opposing quarterbacks tended to avoid. He
missed three games, one because of a concussion and two with an ankle
injury.Allen returned from two devastating injuries to win the comeback honor.
Allen missed half of the 2015 season with a kidney issue, then was lost in the
2016 season opener with a torn right ACL. There were questions if Allen would
ever player at a high level again.He answered those emphatically this season
with the best year of his career. Allen caught 102 passes for 1,393 yards and
six touchdowns. He was targeted 159 times, nearly 10 per game.The awards were
announced Saturday night at NFL Honors, when Houston Texans defensive end J.J.
Watt received the league’s Walter Payton Award as man of the year. Watt, in his
seventh NFL season and a three-time Defensive Player of the Year
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Hurricane Harvey relief in Houston. His fundraising did a whole lot more,
bringing in an incredible $37 million in 19 days.“I’ve been fortunate to be on
this stage and to win Defensive Player of the Year awards, but everything that
you do on the field pales in comparison to what you do off the field,” Watt
said. “And at the end of my life, if I’m remembered as a football player and a
good football player and that’s all I’m remembered for, then I did a po The son
of former NBA star Danny Ainge has won the Republican primary for a county
commission seat in Utah County.
Tanner Ainge told The Daily Herald in Provo his opponent, Tom Sakievich,
called him Tuesday night to concede when Ainge was leading with about 70 percent
of the vote. Results won’t be final for about two weeks.
Ainge will be the heavy favorite in November for the commission seat that
drew no Democratic challengers.
His only opponent in the bid to replace Utah County Commissioner Greg Graves
will be a third-party candidate, Teri McCabe of United Utah.
Ainge lost last a congressional contest last year in a three-way race to
replace former Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz.
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