Drew Brees NFL MVP: 5 Reasons Why QB Deserves to Win

The Most Valuable Player award doesn't go to the best player in the NFL. Rather, it is supposed to go to the one individual who was most valuable to his team's success during the season. It also shouldn't—and doesn't—take into account postseason performance.

In short, there is a reason they have a Super Bowl MVP.

Drew Brees deserves this award based solely on his regular season performance and importance to the success of the New Orleans Saints.

This article is going to give you five reasons why the future Hall of Fame quarterback should take home the MVP award.

5. Brees Now Possesses Single Season Yardage Record

You don't break passing records on a consistent basis and not be mentioned for the MVP—it just doesn't happen. This is what Drew Brees did this season, destroying Dan Marino's single-season passing yard mark set in 1984.

2011 marked the sixth consecutive season that Brees passed for over 4,000 yards and at least 25 touchdowns. It isn't like the New Orleans Saints weren't successful during the regular season. This is a team that won 13 games, including eight consecutive to end the season. They wouldn't have been anywhere near that level if it wasn't for the future Hall of Fame quarterback.

Statistics don't tell the entire story about a players importance to their team, but they are an important factor.

4. Won Despite Horrible Defense

The Saints defense wasn't just bad this season, they were really bad.

The 21.2 points per game they gave up this season doesn't tell the entire story. Take away the 17 points that Jacksonville and Indianapolis combined to score against New Orleans and that number increased dramatically.

They couldn't cover anyone in the secondary and recorded a total of 33 sacks as a unit, relying way too much on blitzes to mask these shortcomings.

Still, the Saints won 13 games behind one of the best offenses in the entire NFL. Drew Brees made Jimmy Graham look like the second coming of Tony Gonzalez and was probably the most accurate quarterback that I have ever seen.

The Saints defense did go on to fail them in the playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers. This was a game that Brees just couldn't lead his team over the proverbial mountaintop. However, this award is solely based on regular season success, and the Saints had plenty of that.

3. Is a True Role Model in a League Without Many

I know this isn't the NFL Man of the Year Award, but character does need to be taken into consideration when coming to a conclusion about MVP. Not that Aaron Rodgers isn't a class act—he is. This is more about what Drew Brees has done for the ravished community of New Orleans.

Not only did this standup individual sign with the Saints just a couple months following Hurricane Katrina. He made a promise to the citizenry that he would help rebuild the city, and boy did this man ever come through.

Working with the Boys and Girl's Club of greater New Orleans, Brees had donated more than just money to helping young people. He has donated something much more valuable—his time.

He also started the Brees Dream Foundation, which is committed to help find a cure for cancer. He has also donated an overwhelming $11 million to various charities throughout New Orleans, San Diego and West Lafayette regions.

In a league that is filled with so many egocentric individuals, Brees stands out as one selfless individual, and that has to be taken into account.

2. More Records

Drew Brees didn't just break the single season passing yards record. He also broke a couple less important records in an amazing 2011 regular season performance.

His 468 completions in 2011 were an NFL record, breaking Peyton Manning's previous record of 450 set in 2010

His 110.6 quarterback rating was good for eighth best in NFL history. 

His completion percentage of 71.2 set a record that he already broke in 2009.

Needless to say, the passing yardage record is the most important of any of these. With that said, Brees had one of the best regular seasons in the heralded history of the NFL. These records are an indication of that.

1. Was the Most "Valuable" to His Team

Most Valuable Player doesn't necessarily mean "best player." Rather, it is all about who was most valuable to their team during the regular season.

This is why I had advocated that Peyton Manning win it every single season that he played for the Indianapolis Colts. Their performance in 2011 without him proved me right in that regard.

Drew Brees was, by far, the most valuable player to his team. Where would the New Orleans Saints have been without him? I am pretty sure they wouldn't have finished over .500.

He accounted for 72 percent of the Saints total yardage output and 76 percent of their offensive touchdowns.

Need I say more?