or Joonas Korpisalo Men Jersey for MVP? You can make a strong argument for either star: Watt just put the finishing touches on one of the most dominating seasons by a defensive lineman in NFL history while Rodgers is widely recognized as the greatest quarterback on the planet guiding one of the league's best teams.In Around The NFL's latest wholly organic email exchange, we debate who deserves the hardware.Dan Hanzus: No defensive player has won the MVP award since 1986. That was the year of Lawrence Taylor, a r with whom Watt shares the same defining characteristic: No defensive player since L.T. has dominated the game quite like Watt, a game-plan wrecker for the ages who already looks like a Canton lock at age 25.But you can't separate team succe s from this conversation. Watt kept a deeply mediocre team in the playoff hunt through Week 17. Rodgers led a strong team to 12 wins and an NFC North title. Wait, who does that make more valuable? This is hard guys!Gregg Rosenthal: Rodgers had the best season by any quarterback since ... in 2011. had the best season of my lifetime. I don't think you can go wrong with the pick, but Watt gets my vote because he did more than anyone I've ever seen at his position. Yes, quarterbacks are always going to play a more important position. But Watt carried what was otherwise a completely mediocre defense.I've heard arguments from people who would vote for Watt if they made the playoffs, which seems insane to me. Watt would have somehow Oliver Bjorkstrand Jersey been more dominant if the got help in Week 17 from the ?Marc Se sler: Zero drama here. This award is engineered toward quarterbacks. Watt might nab MVP honors in a season when no signal-caller stood out, but Rodgers did the opposite. He'll win it.I'd love to see Watt take this, because we could travel decades before seeing another defender dominate matchups so completely week after week. He willed the to multiple victories and sets an example inside the locker room as the team's hardest worker.But the quarterback position is the toughest in sports, and Rodgers makes it look easy. Trying to force someone else onto the throne is the equivalent of voting for Lyndon LaRouche.DH: "We could travel decades before seeing another defender dominate matchups so completely week after week." That's exactly why there is plenty of drama this year. This is indeed an award engineered toward QBs, but Watt turns the whole conversation on its head.Chris We seling: Everything I know about football and have seen on game film this year tells me that Rodgers is the best player in the league and easily the most valuable. He's playing the most important position in sports -- so important that Vince Lombardi used to tell cronies that the overinflated value of the position was -- at the .Don't punish Rodgers for being too dominant for his own good. If his home games weren't laughers by halftime, he would have had a chance to reach those "magical" marks of 50 touchdowns and 5,000 yards. His value has been plain to see every time the are forced to play without him, such as the seven-game stretch last season, his momentary absence vs. the last week and even the hamstrung offense late in the lo s to the . Without Rodgers, this team has no prayer of going to the playoffs much le s competing for a .MS: So what I'm gathering is that nobody here watched the dominant play of tight end ?CW: All of this talk about Watt's rare dominance as if he didn't have a strikingly similar season in 2012. He was the best defensive player in football last season, and the finished 2-14. His team went a pedestrian 9-7 this year against one of the softest schedules we have ever seen. Is that more valuable than what Rodgers brings to the table as a quarterback? Negative.None Artemi Panarin Jersey of this is to diminish Watt's accomplishments. In my mind, his past three seasons are the most impre sive by any defensive lineman in NFL history. He'll be rewarded with another Defensive Player of the Year award and a first-ballot bust in Canton someday. Recognition of a unique level of achievement is not an i sue with Watt. It's common knowledge that he's already a legend in his time.Don't cry for Watt. As special as he is, it's not out of the realm of po sibility that he breaks Michael Strahan's sack record en route to leading the to the AFC South title and an MVP award in 2015.Conor Orr: Is it just me, or does it feel like we want another defensive player to win this award, sort of in the way we wanted a pitcher to take home a Cy Young and an MVP? Don't get me wrong, is fantastic, and, unle s he can duplicate this performance again next year, will probably be the last great chance we get to have this spirited debate. But I have to wonder what the would be like without this year, and in turn, how good the would be without Watt. My gue s would be that Green Zac Dalpe Jersey Bay would mi s the playoffs (hot take, right?) and Houston would still be out, too. GR: I can't force anti-Rodgers sentiment. He's had an incredible season. But he did have a few more stinkers (Seattle, Detroit and Buffalo) than we remember. So if we're splitting hairs, that's another reason to roll with Watt.I like that both players e sentially excel because they do things others at their position can't. No one is better at throwing acro s his body than Rodgers. No one is better at creating pre sure from the inside than Watt. They are two generational players.I suspect Watt won't get more than a few votes in the end. This is like when in 2010, and then Brady got every single vote.DH:, guys. Amirite? DH Seriously though, there's a serious upset po sibility in play. I agree with Conor's thought: It feels like a lot of people want Watt to win, perhaps out of the misguided notion that it makes us feel like smarter football fans and analysts to pick the charismatic D-lineman who dominates and bleeds a lot instead of rolling with another quarterback. Rodgers is the logical choice given the criterion involved, but something tells me he won't run away with this. This is one year where I'd be totally fine with a share of the award -- something we haven't seen since and Steve McNair sawed the trophy in half in 2003.CO: Dan and I will team up on Cam Atkinson Women Jersey all the organic chains. Bully people into adopting . CW: Never underestimate the sportswriter's need to feel like a smarter football fan.DH: Wait, who's Lyndon LaRouche?The latest Around The NFL Podcast and the effect of 's rescinded suspension. Find more Around The NFL content on .