I briefly mentioned some of this in another thread but thought it deserved its own thread. Eli just finished his 10th season in the NFL.
- Eli has a career completion percentage of 58.5 with 229 touchdowns and 171 Interceptions. His career quarterback rating is 81.2.
-Eli has led the league in interceptions 3 times (2007, 2010, 2013)
- Eli is one of 5 quarterbacks all time to be crowned superbowl MVP more than once.
-Eli has the 3rd longest streak of consecutive starts in NFL history(and counting)
- The first two times that he led the leauge in interceptions, he followed it up with great seasons. In 2008 he had a career low 10 interceptions while leading the giants to a 12-4 record and a #1 seed in the NFC. If burress did not shoot himself in the leg this team would have had a great shot at another superbowl. In 2011 Eli carried a team with a piss poor defense and running game to the playoffs when everything came together and he delivered a 2nd superbowl championship.
The point of this thread is how will Eli be viewed when he retires? He is obviously the greatest QB in NYG history but one year he is considered Elite and the next he is a joke and laughed at for how many picks he throws. So many people talk about how inconsistent and eratic he is but he has been pretty cyclically consistent. I can predict that in 2016 he will lead the league in interceptions.
How will you remember Eli Manning?
10 years and one screw for Eli. I think we will have him beyond a 15 year career barring anything more than that. I see another SB win and a trip to Canton.
It will be said of the next guy, like Parcells said of Simms,"He's good, but he's no Eli Manning."
That said, it's way too early to assess Eli's career. If he finishes like Elway or Strahan, as the steady veteran leader of a championship team that he no longer has to carry, he'll be remembered as one of the best ever. If he finishes like Phil, as a cap casualty and damaged goods, he'll be remembered as Phil is: a very good QB on some very good teams, who could raise his game to transcendent levels on occasion. There's a long way to go, though. At Eli's age, Simms was playing his best ball, in an era when QBs took a lot more physical abuse.
Did more than one gray cell fire as you were penning this line? You're not talking about solar system orbits here, you are talking about a QB's play, and that statement means nothing, and doesn't "explain" anything.
Reese and co are doing their best (whatever anyone thinks of that) to set up Eli and TC for at least one more title run IMO, and Eli will be judged by all of us if indeed he can deliver a 3rd Lombardi trophy.
I'm praying Eli can do both, that would be truly extraordinary!
I'm praying Eli can do both, it would be truly remarkable.
Because that will trump every other career or single season stat he puts up, aside from (just maybe) setting an all time NFL record for consecutive career starts - which IMO has it's own special place in football history given how G-d awful difficult that is playing this game.
Eli can be a top five qb this year.The only thing he lacks at this point is mobility in the mold of Aaron Rodgers type other than that he can still make every throwand has more guts than any QB out there.
I would love for Eli to have and MVP season crowned with a Superbowl MVP win.
- 50,000+ yards
- 305+ TD's
- 58.5% completion rate
- fewer INT's than future HOF Brett Favre ;)
- 2 SB MVP's or more
If you look at the Pro Football HOF QB's, these numbers are right in-line with most of them, and better than those on run-centric teams like Aikmen, Bradshaw, and some others. Of course, one could argue that almost every QB should be in the HOF automatically if they let Joe Namath in, but that's another story.