Week 10 MVPs: Dalton rebounds mightily against Giants? defense (Shutdown Corner)

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Andy Dalton, QB, Cincinnati Bengals: Through the first half of his second NFL season, Dalton wasn't quite the quarterback we'd seen surprise us in his 2011 rookie campaign. He'd thrown an interception in each of his first eight games, and really hit a wall against the Pittsburgh Steelers two weeks ago, when he completed just 14 of 28 passes for a YPA rate of just 3.75. Apparently, the cure for whatever ailed the TCU alum was a day against the New York Giants' suddenly sloppy defense. Dalton threw a career-high four touchdowns against the Super Bowl champs, and avoided any picks. 21 of 30 for 199 yards -- well, that's not a stat line that really jumps off the page, but when you lead the league in TD passes on a single Sunday, and you do it against a team that's supposed to know better? Well, that's a good way to lead the MVPs list. Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota Vikings: We're starting to think that we should just copy/paste Purple Jesus on this list. In a 34-24 Vikings win against a Detroit Lions team whose offense suddenly caught fire, Peterson ran for 171 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries. In his last four games, Peterson has run for at least 123 yards in each outing, averaged 6.3 yards per carry at his "low point," and amassed five rushing touchdowns. In those same last four games, Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder has thrown for 58 and 63 yards in two of those. You think Peterson cares that Minnesota's opponents are stacking the box with seeming impunity? He's certainly not playing like it, and we continue to marvel at the fact that he's doing all of this less than a year after the kind of major knee surgery that would have knocked most power backs out of the game for good just a few years ago. I mean ... really. Per SI.com's Peter King , Peterson is still breaking up scar tissue in his knee, and he's beating the league to smithereens. John Schneider, GM, Seattle Seahawks: When Schneider put together his 2012 draft, there were some pretty serious questions about what the heck he was thinking. Schneider is the engine behind Pete Carroll's high-velocity style, and he gave his coach some unexpected gifts. Nobody expected the Seahawks to take West Virginia pass rusher Bruce Irvin with the 15th pick in this draft, but Irvin currently leads all rookie defenders with seven sacks. That's one more than New England's Chandler Jones, and four more than any other first-year sack artist.

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