Each week, talking heads throw out superlatives for the NFL’s beloved quarterbacks. They stack them against one another, picking their favorites and making assertions as to who is the best and why.

Frequently, they ignore or overlook the obvious question – be it for the sake of ignorance, garnering engagement, or otherwise. And for the past four weeks, they’ve overlooked the reigning league MVP, and The Baltimore Banner’s Kyle Goon pushed back.

“Four weeks in a row, the Ravens have taken apart quarterbacks who are MVP candidates or possess MVP talent. Four weeks in a row, Jackson has gotten the last laugh,” Goon wrote. “Give a two-time MVP some love already. Jackson’s in the driver’s seat to be named the league’s best player again.

“For the last three weeks, in my self-imposed sentence of watching Monday morning talk shows, I’ve heard analysts opine that Jackson wasn’t the best quarterback on the field in his own wins. It’s Sunday afternoon as I write these words, but I can already foresee the league’s punditry hyping up Daniels’ 269-yard, two-touchdown performance in the latest bid to humble Jackson and the Ravens. Let’s get ahead of this. No, Daniels wasn’t better than Lamar. Neither was Joe Burrow. Neither was Josh Allen. Neither was Dak Prescott.”

Daniels earned MVP talk after his rapid turnaround of the Commanders into a competent, winning team. And with him being a dual-threat quarterback producing highlight throws and runs, he was compared to Jackson, with some claiming he was better than Jackson. He wasn’t and isn’t, Goon wrote.

“[Jackson] had a higher completion percentage than Daniels. A better quarterback rating. He accounted for more passing yards and more rushing yards, and he won,” Goon wrote. “Daniels had a few exceptional pinpoint throws that will stand out in highlight tapes — but there’s no other way you could gauge that he’s a better player than Jackson, who has never lost to a starting rookie quarterback in his career (7-0).”

Clips of pundits disparaging Jackson have annoyed Ravens fans for years now. This season is no different. But the annoyance has reached new heights.

“I’m tired of watching analysts cherry pick highlights to discredit Jackson or hype up his competition,” Goon wrote. “I’m tired of his teammates being used as a way to diminish his week-to-week greatness. I’m tired of the narrative of voter fatigue working against him – if anything, Jackson’s previous MVPs should count as a strength because no one has figured out how to stop him in his seventh year in the league. Jackson isn’t perfect, but show me who has been better than him thus far – and find a guy who hasn’t lost head to head against him. Even [Patrick] Mahomes, who beat Jackson again to start this season, has as many touchdowns as interceptions (6).”