Redskins Kicker Mvp

It s like a setup man winning the cy young or ashton kutcher winning anything.

Redskins kicker mvp. Grantland looked back at moseley s season and tried to figure out why he was the mvp. He won the most valuable player award during the strike shortened 1982 season. He won the damn award. A redskins kicker approached a football directly.

As former redskins kicker mark moseley drove to new york for a big day on radio row the former nfl mvp discussed his role with five guys the redskins special teams embarrassing and the. Mark dewayne moseley born march 12 1948 is a former professional american football placekicker in the national football league nfl who played for the philadelphia eagles 1970 the houston oilers 1971 72 the washington redskins 1974 86 and the cleveland browns 1986. Former redskins kicker mark moseley shares what it was like to be able to. Might that change on sunday in super bowl liv between the san francisco 49ers and kansas city chiefs.

The only pure placekicker ever to be named mvp of the nfl the redskins super bowl winner is now kicking back as a top exec at five guys. A cynic might say playing a 9 game schedule is pretty much the only way a kicker could ever win mvp. According to them the redskins were the best team in the nfl during the lockout shortened season boasting an 8 1 record after having as many wins in the full sized season before it. Somehow a kicker has won nfl regular season mvp honors previously the washington redskins mark moseley in the strike shortened 1982 campaign but one has yet to win the super bowl mvp award.

But the idea of a kicker being literally the most valuable football player in the nfl seems downright insane in 2015. He was as you might expect a very good kicker that season. Yet that s exactly what happened after the strike shortened 1982 nfl season when washington redskins place kicker mark moseley took home the associated press nfl mvp honor. It s unfair to say moseley was a replacement level talent.

There s something fundamentally absurd about a place kicker being named mvp. Hall of fame running back john riggins believes chiefs running back damien williams deserved to be super bowl liv mvp.