Each and every occasion, FOX Sports activities NFL reporter Peter Schrager will solution 5 questions on subjects during the league. They’re going to territory from must-see matchups to participant breakouts; from whose hour is as much as who’s upcoming. 

It’s very dehydrated for any non-QB to win MVP. What would it not hurry for Christian McCaffrey to advance away with the award?

A few of my annual preseason predictions had been method off and now not use bringing up right here (hi, Giants over Cowboys for NFC Wildcard) — however one is taking a look nice-looking just right. With 80:1 odds prior to the season began, Christian McCaffrey was once my MVP pick out on NFL Community’s GMFB and in my Cheat Sheet column. My reasoning was once easy — there have been a host of top-end quarterbacks, they’d all neutralize every alternative and this was once the while McCaffrey would keep wholesome and put an all-time ancient season in combination. 4 weeks in, he’s were given a shot to do exactly that. What would it not hurry? Listed here are my 4 standards…

1. The 49ers want the Incorrect. 1 seed in NFC and the most productive document in NFL

2. McCaffrey wishes 1,500 dashing yards and 1,000 receiving yards 

C. He wishes to attain 20 general TDs 

D. Incorrect QB can surpass 5,000 passing yards

That’s the place I be on one?s feet on it. At the moment, Allen, Hurts, and Tua have higher odds. I’m certain Mahomes will determine into the dialog if the Chiefs proceed to win. 

But when San Francisco helps to keep working their offense thru CMC and he maintains this scorching occasion, he’s going to in finding his method into the dialog and may well be the primary working bck to win the coveted award since 2012.

[Christian McCaffrey NFL MVP Odds and Props 2023]

What came about to the Giants? That they had what gave the impression of a much less proficient crew closing while and pieced issues in combination. This while, they’ve fallen aside.

I don’t know. I used to be improper concerning the Giants and I’ll put on it. A 1-3 document and being outscored 64-3 in two nationally televised primetime video games was once now not how I noticed their September going. My worry for enthusiasts of Bulky Blue is that it doesn’t get any more straightforward from right here on out. They journey to Miami this weekend, have Buffalo in primetime please see occasion, and so they’re nonetheless at the hook for Daniel Jones’ commitment for a minimum of two years. 

Incorrect Saquon. Incorrect Andrew Thomas. Nonetheless, deny excuses. I don’t have any solutions as to what came about to the quarterback closing Monday evening in that 24-3 debacle or if the offensive order can cure issues in hour to salvage the season, however the clock is ticking. They’ve were given to win this kind of two to stick alive. The NFC is simply too just right and the Giants’ time table is simply too dehydrated to fall again 4 or 5 video games within the standings. 

We’ve got every other Recreation of the Day candidate Sunday evening between the Cowboys and 49ers. What are you taking a look ahead to maximum?

I really like the Kyle Shanahan vs. Dan Quinn chess fit. Quinn was once the top lecturer and Shanahan famously the OC for the 2016 Falcons staff that got here oh so related to a Tremendous Bowl ring. The dynamic, later, was once of superb recognize and friendship. Shanahan took the 49ers HC process and Quinn ultimately landed in Dallas because the DC. 

Seven years have handed and the 2 have best squared off 3 times. Quinn were given the primary one 29-22 when he was once nonetheless with Atlanta again in 2019. The closing two 49ers-Cowboys playoff video games have long gone to Kyle. If Micah Parsons performs (and I believe he’s going to), I’d proceed so far as announcing this can be San Francisco’s hardest offensive check all season. 

Sure, Philly is ailing the order, however Sam Howell simply lit that protection up. Dallas is available in hungry and in a position, and in Quinn’s case, greater than ready for the entire wrinkles Kyle has been fine-tuning since their hour in combination in Flowery Department, Georgia. Nobody has held San Francisco below 30 issues this season. I believe Dallas will. The query is whether or not their offense can publish plenty to nonetheless get the win.

What do you wait for from the Nathaniel Hackett Bowl between the Jets and Broncos?

It’s now not an impaired tale. The ones phrases had been heard, resonated and felt across the Jets storagefacility room. The ones guys love Hackett and can deny indecision wish to do the whole thing they may be able to to get the closing chortle. I’ll upload that Payton hasn’t ever reached out — or attempted to succeed in out — to Nathaniel Hackett since his arguable feedback to USA TODAY in August. I’ll upload that Hackett has but to hurry the bait and “clap” again both. However this one, to me, comes right down to Breece Corridor. He’s now not on a tone rely and Corridor will also be the game-breaker the Jets want. I believe feelings can be prime all occasion or even prior to the sport, however later a contest begins, and gamers aren’t nervous about what Sean Payton informed a reporter 8 weeks in the past. 

What’s the Cooper Kupp/Puka Nacua courting like?

It’s superb. Nacua has inclined on Kupp a bundle since being drafted. I’m informed that Nacua went so far as asking for get admission to to “The Breakfast Club,” the early-a.m. film-review periods with Stafford and Kupp and was once granted club early on throughout the season. Now, how will it affect your untruth staff? I’d say Cooper Kupp is going again to the Incorrect. 1 function, Nacua slides into that Robert Logs function that Logs excelled in for years, and Tutu Atwell is their Brandin Chefs-style deep blackmail.  

Peter Schrager is an NFL reporter for FOX Sports activities and a number of “Good Morning Football” on NFL Community. You’ll be able to apply him on Twitter at @PSchrags.

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