"The question is whether the Giants need a $19 million quarterback in Ben McAdoo's system, and that's where it gets interesting. Manning's salary is as high as it is because of his Super Bowl heroics, and the Giants haven't blinked at committing 17-18 percent of their salary cap annually to Manning because he has been so reliable. He never misses a game, never causes drama inside or outside the building and he has, in the past, demonstrated an ability to elevate the players around him to a championship level. In this day and age, when 32 teams are looking for franchise quarterbacks and there aren't 20 walking the Earth, there's no such thing as overspending to get or keep one.
But under the new offensive system, the requirements for being the Giants' franchise quarterback may be changing. The Giants don't really throw the ball downfield anymore, and McAdoo's offense is designed to eliminate risk. It won't be asking Manning to make the heroic throws he made in the past in playoff games and Super Bowls. Part of Manning's magic has always been his fearlessness of tough throws and his ability to hit them in the clutch. In a timing-based offense that rarely asks the quarterback to throw the ball more than 10 yards past the line of scrimmage, those qualities may not be worth a premium price anymore."
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Eli's AAV of his current deal is $16.2M and that's sub-Alex Smith's AAV. $17M-$19M a year is the going price for any QB that isn't terrible or on a rookie deal, even if they're not carrying a massive load. Again, not that it matters to this team, given where they're at and how far away they may well be from rebounding.
There's only but so many good free agents available each season that the team passes on because of cap restrictions. Regardless, after next season Eli won't be commanding that kind of salary and the Giants are already in a good cap situation going into 2015. The amount that Eli is making is mostly irrelevant.
Give Eli protection and some more weapons, it's a lot easier to throw deep.
Ask Washington or even Philly if they'd like Eli at any price.
Charlie Frye (Akron, 2004), who went on to play in the NFL.
Trent Edwards (Stanford, 2005), who went on to play in the NFL.
Alex Smith (49ers, 2005), who was the #1 overall pick.
Brett Fave (Packers, 2005-6)
Aaron Rodgers (Packers, 2007-13)
With the exception of arguably Smith, these were all high quality QBs (at least in view of their relative competition). In fact, the fact that the 49ers invested a #1 pick in Smith doesn't lend itself to the theory that McAdoo's "system" (to the extent it existed in 2005) either.
There's no body of work to support the theory that the McAdoo system does not require a high-quality QB to be successful.
Why is he not asking this same question of the Green Bay Packers? They could probably get a king's ransom for Rodgers and then pick up Jason Campbell and keep on rolling!
Just really, really stupid.
Stupid piece.
That is just plain fact...the guy will be only 34.
Eli frustrates us all at times but he is healthy and facts are facts. Jerry Reese has ruined his last three years by lousy drafting, poor FA choices and a complete failure to recognize the line was going downhill in 2010.
If Eli had the offensive line and running game and still had bad numbers...ok. But, Geezus H, give the guy something to work with.
Now, should Eli make as much or more than Rodgers? Eli has won 2 SBs.
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Manning's salary is as high as it is because of his Super Bowl heroics, and the Giants haven't blinked at committing 17-18 percent of their salary cap annually to Manning because he has been so reliable. He never misses a game, never causes drama inside or outside the building and he has, in the past, demonstrated an ability to elevate the players around him to a championship level. In this day and age, when 32 teams are looking for franchise quarterbacks and there aren't 20 walking the Earth, there's no such thing as overspending to get or keep one.
In addition his salaray is what it is due to at least two restructers that pushed money to the back end.
Stop passing the buck to assistants.....Pope,Gilbride.....Mara needs to step up and address the real issue...Jerry Reese.