Rams Gurley adding pressure to a Brady infatuated media

As Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley continues to march towards a should be MVP award, the NFL media continues to struggle with its hero worship of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

Leave it to the media to put itself into a box it will have to fight to get out of. Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley continues to prove the MVP award should not be awarded to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, despite how much they’re wanting to give it to him.

And they do want to give it to him, just listen to the media stalwarts who love them some Brady.

That said, after Week 16 in Memphis against the Titans and their ol’ ball coach Jeff Fisher, Gurley is still making a strong argument that a new and better candidate is dominating the current landscape out West and anywhere else the Rams are playing.

Yes, there absolutely is a media bias, and that drum should be beaten loud and often, especially in a season where Brady could very well win the MVP because of his legacy and less because of his 2017 credentials.

And that’s a problem.

But there is also another.

The Rams have been in a virtual media blackout on Sunday nights where a national audience is available mostly and only to a select few.

Games featuring Los Angeles against the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks were really only regional games in certain markets except for the Carson Wentz–Jared Goff Week 14 game in the Coliseum. Meanwhile, NBC has kept a consistent rotation featuring hanger-on’s like Dallas, Oakland, and a second place, injury riddled Seahawks team.

All teams with worse records than the Rams.

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That’s what you call “flexing” to a name and an overnight rating, not the record or quality of a team on the field, and that keeps an NFL poster boy like Tommy Terrific front and center.

They’ll need to do it better next season if credibility means anything to them.